Over on YouTube, there are dozens and dozens of regular programs in which someone teaches you how to cook. An amazing number of them are devoted to replicating popular fast food items in your own kitchen. After all, it saves so much time and money to make a McDonald's cheeseburger as opposed to the difficult and expensive practice of somehow finding a McDonald's and buying one. I also love that every single cooking video ends with the chef sampling his or her own creation and telling you how utterly and incredible wonderful it smells and tastes and how he or she wishes you could be there to experience it for yourself.
My favorite of all these shows is Greg's Kitchen. I'm not quite certain who Greg is or where he is or even why he grins like that. But he's very entertaining and he sure loves to cook. He posts two of these a week…