Help my parents can't cook

HELP!!! My parents can't cook.....

LOGLINE

A master chef turns a family’s kitchen upside down to rescue them from a lifelong sentence of horrible home-cooked meals. “Nanny 911” meets “Kitchen Nightmares.”

SYNOPSIS

For most people, the phrase “home-cooked meal” brings up images of Mom’s delicious chicken soup warming up the body or Dad’s famous barbecued ribs coming off the grill. Unfortunately for some, “home-cooked meal” has an entirely different meaning. For them it means “pass me the catsup so I can kill the taste.” For these unlucky individuals, eating at home is bad enough, but bringing guests over for dinner is nothing short of complete humiliation.

HELP! MY PARENTS CAN’T COOK! gives families the opportunity to have a top-notch professional chef (picture Curtis Stone) come into their home and transform the food they usually eat into tasty, nutritious meals the whole family will look forward to. Although the request for help comes from a dissatisfied family member pointing the finger at the primary cook in the home, HELP! MY PARENTS CAN’T COOK! champions the point-of-view that “family” is the key ingredient in family cooking. So whether the issue is

that Dad’s skills in the kitchen are subpar, Mom just doesn’t have enough time, or that nobody in the home feels like making dinner, the entire family works together to make sure their home cooking becomes a source of pride and enjoyment for everyone.

SHOW STRUCTURE

A show designed for food lovers and families alike,

HELP! MY PARENTS CAN’T COOK!

inspires and teaches families to improve their own family meals while entertaining them with humorous and often moving stories. Each 60-minute episode will focus on one

family and will be broken down into 7 segments:

Segment One (The Introduction)

In response to a video request from one of the family members, our Chef/Host ambushes the family at their home right before dinner. S/he breaks bread with the family, comments on the quality of the food, and asks them questions about what they’d like their family meals to be like.

Segment Two (Heart to Heart)

The primary cook of the family takes the Chef to see the kitchen so s/he can see what they are working with. They both talk openly about what the issues are.

Segment Three (Wake Up Sleepyheads)

The family is woken by the smells of breakfast. As they enter the kitchen, they find our Chef cooking away for them. After they share a simple, yet delicious meal together, our Chef tells them to get ready to go food shopping.

Segment Four (Shop and Swap)

While our Chef takes the family to numerous places to buy fresh, quality ingredients, a team makes changes to the family’s kitchen. This might include new pots and pans, reorganizing, and even a new stove… anything to make the kitchen an inviting place for good cooking.

Segment Five (Private Lesson)

After the primary cook of the family sees the new additions to the kitchen, our Chef walks her/him through the recipes they are going to prepare and trains them in specific techniques that will be helpful.

Segment Six (Those Who Don’t Cook, Prep)

When the private lesson is complete, our Chef calls the family into the kitchen, explaining to them that it is important that they all share in the responsibility of improving their meals. Our Chef encourages the primary cook to be the head chef of this kitchen and to direct the family to clean, chop, measure, and whatever else is needed for prep.

Segment Seven (Try It You’ll Like It)

The family eats dinner and expresses how much more they like the food. Our Chef gives the family a recipe book designed specifically for their family and says goodbye. Just outside the family’s home, our Chef shares her/his final thoughts about her/his time with the family.

SAMPLE EPISODES

I Can Burn Cereal – David complains that his wife, Andrea, is the worst cook in the world. Andrea is a stay-at-home mom. She takes great care of her two children and their home. However, she doesn’t seem to have the cooking gene. Andrea feels like she’s a bad caretaker because of this, especially because her own mother was a great cook. She hopes our Chef can help her, but she isn’t confident.

Spaghetti Saturday – Ten-year-old Tiffany’s mother and father are divorced, and she is tired of her father, Steven’s, cooking. All he does is make spaghetti with sauce from a jar. Steven claims he’d like to be able to make more dishes, but nobody ever taught him. Secretly however, he isn’t that interested in being a good cook. He claims he’s

willing to listen to the Chef but thinks cooking isn’t a very manly thing to do.

But I Have Homework To Do – Sixteen-year-old Sandra’s mother works two jobs, and so she has to take care of her three younger brothers a good deal of the time. This includes cooking. Sandra feels like she could cook great food if she had the time, but she’s also committed to going to college. She’s very open to our Chef teaching her how to cook, but even more so she’d like to learn from her mother.

Faithience

my parents can't cook!!!

SAMPLE EPISODES

Faithience

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