Giada or Ina?

Oops, I was supposed to post yesterday after my workout. Well, I was tired and had to fix dinner, so sorry. It was a good 40 minutes on the treadmill. For some reason, I like the one that is directly in front of the Food Channel and I'm usually watching either Giada or Ina. Both of them do good food, but are opposites in the body composition department.

Which one would I rather be more like? I'm going to go with Ina here. Let's face it, I'll never be a Giada type. She's too short and has a really big head. OK, I have a big head, but I think it's a little more proportional to the rest of me. Also, I would rather cook while listening to NPR; Giada seems to have 80's porn music piped into her home kitchen which is kind of creepy.

Also, Giada's husband seems to have outkicked his coverage. I'm sure he earns money good and stuff, but there's no real appeal to the guy. Ina and her husband, on the other hand, have a relationship I really like. They've been together forever, and they have both had brilliant and opposite career. Plus, I guess I'd rather live in the Hamptons than L.A. Call it my East Coast bias, I'm sure I've got one.

I married rather late in life and find this to be the happiest I have ever been in my life. Shortly before we got married I saw an episode of Barefoot Contessa where Ina was making a meal for a bridal shower or something else delightfully Hamptons-y. She gave the best advice on marriage that I've ever heard. She said that her priority was to make Jeffrey happy and she knew that Jeffrey's priority was to make her happy. Then she shrugged her shoulders and went on making mayonnaise or bechamel or margaritas or something. Giada's husband always appears mildly afraid of her. Ina and Jeffrey always look like they want to get to the next course and then settle down with a couple of good books and a couple of bottles of wine and snuggle for a while.

No musical selection today. Just Ina making meatloaf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebUYxwd3x1A