Table Talk: TV dreams and kitchen realities
Sarah Cai cooked on "Guy's Grocery Games" Season 37. (Courtesy Warner Brothers Discovery)
Ellen Chamberlain
Ellen Chamberlain is a global citizen who is happy to call Memphis her forever home. The Michigan native has worked in media for nearly 25 years as a radio broadcaster, journalist and ghostwriter. As The Daily Memphian’s food and restaurant writer, she gives readers inside perspectives of their favorite restaurants and the people behind them, suggestions for the best bites around town and the latest food news from in and around Shelby County.
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Am I the only person who grew up with dreams of being on a big screen?
Some of you were fortunate to witness the golden era of television — in real time, not replayed — when everything was romanticized and perfectly presented on screen. Others came up watching the excessively dramatic films, TV and game shows of the 1970s and ’80s. And some of us have been influenced by the reality TV era, for better or worse.
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