Cooking for the rich

Although I enjoy watching some of the cooking programmes on television, because I get a few ideas and tips from them, I can't help wondering what planet some of these celebrity chefs actually live on. Not only do they primp and ponce their dishes, drizzling drops of sauce here and there, smearing pureed vegetables round the edge of the plate but they handle the food with their fingers and I would be surprised if it's still hot by the time it gets to the table! I am sure that people would be left feeling very hungry too especially when you see some of the portion sizes so it wouldn't be a satisfying meal for a lot of active people.
The other thing that often annoys me is the number of ingredients they use, the amount and the cost. I'm sure they think everyone can just walk into a butcher's and buy a lump of fillet of beef which would cost around twenty pounds, or a piece of monkfish which would cost the same. Then there's the Parmesan cheese that they all seem to have in an enormous chunk weighing around five pounds, so big that they've got a job to hold it.
Wine, marsala and other types of alcohol are thrown in in very large quantities and if they recommend wine to go with whatever they've cooked as they do on Saturday Kitchen, the bottles usually cost in the region of eight to ten pounds a bottle or more. They don't make do with the plonk ordinaire that most of us can afford.
It surprises me that the cookery programmes are as popular as they are, especially as most people seem to buy the ready made meals and families rarely sit down together to eat these days. I'm just waiting for the day they put on a series of cookery programmes for people who live alone and have to manage on a very tight budget. Perhaps I should volunteer!!!!