She out-butters Paula Deen which I did not think was possible. I see her in the PW category: huge phony who turns ordinarily delicious plain food into high calorie, over-the-top, unappealing gutbombs.
Okaaaaaay. That was one of the most schizo accounts I’ve ever read. The comments section is priceless and well worth a look to the end to get passed all the fawning and to the parts where people think the blogger is nuts.
All I know about the woman is from that one site, and the big ones were her telling people to microwave Nutella in the jar and some recipes that had the same ingredients but different amounts–of rather basic things you’d expect to be similar. The rest of it was just someone coming up with reasons to dislike whatever she did that day. Well, that and making fun of her fans for being so gushy about her.
Oh, and there were the occasional blog posts where she didn’t initially credit the recipe-maker but then went back later and fixed it.
Ree Drummund ‘networks’. She works at promoting herself and her career. That she does it in the public eye makes it no worse than what the rest of us do to promote our professional image. Whether or not you like her cooking - buy/don’t her cookbooks, watch/don’t her show - you vote with your choices. As far as the plagiarism, as far as recipes go, there is very little new under the sun. I expect that most recipes I read/watch have been done before and that they are showcased because of their relevance to the situation at hand - sort of like ‘here’s how I do this’.
that Rechelle is a good writer though. Did you click the link to the post about lice? She is strangely unaware though about how that could have put a damper on the visit.
That post just oozes crazy. Portions like her trying to figure out if Ree reads her blog or not, or making gifts for her in an attempt to suck up, or the whole “why the hell did she ask me if I had a baby… am I milky?” list are just full of “you have no fucking idea how neurotic you seem” scariness.
Funny, I found entries on PW blog about that weekend and everyone looked like we’re enjoying themselves. I can’t believe she went with head lice to someone else’s home.
Either Rechelle is total nut case or she has a body of work and enough fans to legitimize this joke. I’m thinking, if I read this stuff from, say, David Sedaris or even Stephen Colbert I’d know it was total satire. There’s that rant about her sister and a joint blog, it sounds nuts to me but maybe it’s a private joke amongst her fans?
In any case, if she was an invited guest at PW’s house she’s being rude. If she actually went there with head lice she’s contemptible.
It occurred to me that she might be testing the water for a website similar to the ‘I Hate Rachael Ray’ that was popular several years ago.
I read a couple of Rechelle’s blog posts and I’m not quite ready to call her crazy, but she is really trying too hard.
Seeing how a real pioneer woman coped with life would be a helluva lot more interesting.
She did say she apparently holds David Sedaris in higher esteem than anyone else on the planet.
The bit about the lice that I thought was pretty hilarious for being written by someone not famous like Sedaris was this: