Cooking With Dog

The New Yorker had a nice article about my favorite YouTube cooking show.

In 2007, one of the oddest and most delicious channels on YouTube launched with a short, lo-fi video on how to make Japanese hot-pot-style soup. “Today, I will show you how to cook sukiyaki,” a male voice narrates, in accented English, over a shot of lightly simmering beef broth. Then the camera pans, abruptly, to a closeup of a poodle. “Hello, I am the host of this show, ‘Cooking with Dog,’ ” the male voice—we realize now it is the dog’s—continues, as the camera surveys his poofy hairdo and frilly purple collar. “O.K., let’s get started.” When the camera zooms out, the dog is perched beside a stove, and a middle-aged woman in a pink shirt begins following his cooking instructions.   ....continued