As much as I wanted to be the cultured and classy person that you all think I am, the truth is that I grew up watching cable TV. This affected me in so many ways: at 15 my dream job was to be a MTV VJ (fortunately, this has changed, else I will still be unemployed), I thought Rachel Ray was a genius making 30 minute meals (still do, but still can't make anything other than fried eggs in 30 minutes!) and "Oh Tokyo" at WINS made my day (seriously, bring it back. The host was so good at creeping out the Japanese-- The Japanese, of all people! She should be given an award). The cool life as I knew it existed on the tube and people in there seemed to have more fun than I do. Perhaps the ultimate life-changing TV show for me were the Lonely Planet series shown on Discovery Channel when I was a bright-eyed teen. It opened my eyes to the wonderful world and all the fun of traveling. They featured places like Paris, Thailand, New York and Havana and every time I would swoon and wish that I could go there someday. But no other episode of theirs has stuck in my memory than the one they had of Vietnam. To be precise, nothing in that episode has struck me more than when they started featuring food: Spring Rolls, Bahn Mi and bowls and bowls of steaming hot and delicious Pho. Oh. My. I used those two words way before you met Christian Grey, Ana Steele. And I am completely PG.
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