Much of the criticism of Lee has coalesced around a recipe for "Kwanzaa Cake" that she demonstrated on a 2003 episode of Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee. The recipe consisted of angel food cake topped with icing, cinnamon, apple pie filling, pumpkin seeds and corn nuts (all store-bought), with seven Kwanzaa candles then inserted into the cake.
Food writer Anthony Bourdain, who was harshly critical of Lee in general, described the video clip of this segment of the show as "eye searing" and "a war crime". The cake was called "scary" by the Houston Chronicle, and "the most ghastly-sounding dish in Lee's culinary repertoire" by Tulsa World. Salon.com wrote that the video "takes pride of place in the pantheon of hilarious culinary disaster videos".
Andy's mother Matilda was a generaional Italian cook---her sauces were seasoned to perfection and simmered for hours before serving.
The story goes that short-cut Sandra Lee served Matilda spaghetti with ketchup (gag).
Food network stopped being about amazing talent when most of the ladies simply started their who can bare the most cleavage competition.
The guys can still cook. To be fair I watch less than 12 hours a year of food network, so I could be wrong.
So...she was actually Cuomo’s shack-up...but Wiki called her “First Lady of New York”. I wish I lived in that dreamworld...