Yes. Yes. You're right. The "recipe" pages were just shot out of the Chef's cook book and worse, some were shot in no light, out of copies of cookbook pages used in his class. This is because: a) I wanted you to be pressured into buying the real cookbook or b) because I was too lazy to do anything classy or c) all of the above? Those who got the right answer win a reduced price copy of Chef Alexander's very classy cookbook (retail price $32.00).
As for the recording of the cooking class. What we had here was a 2-person, location "shoot" featuring five (5) cameras (one of which failed), four (4) microphones (1.5 of which failed) and a neat little 16 pound box called a Newtek Tricaster Studio (and if you google those words you may read all about it.)
My 13 year old son Ben was taking his inaugural spin on the "manned" camera - which was poorly setup and therefore was closing down its auto-iris because of the wall sconces - and he was incredible! Dad could not believe how good he was. In mid production, Ben (Dodgeball game calling) was replaced by his mother who seemed to be text messaging much of the time. She did a sort of good job.
The overhead camera was mounted in a ceiling tile, battery and remote control-operated with its composite signal transmitted by a cheapo transmitter (from an on-line "spy shop" ) to a cheapo receiver (from same, said shop) to the Tricaster unit... therefore a frame of weirdness upon switching. All things considered the Tricaster is an awesome "box" which cares little if it is receiving a mix of composite, Y/C or full component signals, which will only mean something to you tech-types with pocket protectors.
Alex has, thankfully, suspended cooking classes until next (winter) season when we will probably try, try again.