is this cooking? really? UPDATE

lrb went to the kitchenco soup night: crawfish corn chowder & mushroom wild rice "cooking class". cooking class is in quotes because i am not sure the instructor cooked anything...scanning files, scanning files, oh, yeah, she cooked the wild rice.  the southwestern part of the chowder was sprung on the class after we got there & were given a typo ridden recipe handout, as you can read online, the southwestern is omitted.  the bulk of the SOUTHWESTERN crawfish corn chowder recipe was opening off-brand cans of corn, creamed corn, cream of potato soup and jarred salsa, that's right, and dumping them into a le creuset dutch oven. i am sure if that le creuset pot could've screamed, it would have.  the class should be labeled as EASY/BEGINNER/RETARD and definitely isn't worth the $39.95 price tag, especially when we were being served up generic kroger brand ingredients. may i remind you that The Fresh Market is a hop, skip & jump away from kitchenco? ugh. it seemed the recipe was being test driven right then and there. not a family fav and Karol couldn't even recall the name of the magazine she ripped it off from. yes, lrb has high expectations and you should too.

UPDATE: the morning after the demonstration of pouring generic brand canned vegetables and soups into a pot and warming them up, i gave kitchenco a call. i spoke to jennifer and gave her a list of reasons why the class, was, uh, not a cooking class but rather something more akin to a recipe that one would find on the label of a can Campbell's soup. she listened and with a "we'll see what we can do" said she'd pass my comments on to jay, the manager, and he would return my call. 2 days later - no call from jay.