Cooking show hosts

I was a professional cook before everyone all of a sudden became an artisanal "chef." Fryer and grill. Never mastered saute. That's an art. My wife is Italian and, stereotypically, is a great cook, beautiful, with a fiery temper. We watch Triple D ("Diners, Dives...) for entertainment and to find good places to go out to eat when we travel. Say what you want about Guy, he knows good food when he eats it.

Anthony Bourdain bores me silly. He acts as if he is the first cook to make it through a dinner rush by doing a few lines of coke back in the 80s.

 

Remember Martin Yans joke? When you are stir frying remember to keep stirring. If you stare fry it will burn.

 

I just can't watch any cooking show where the host makes "jokes" and the film crew laughs.

 

Martin Yan is still doing his show. After all, if Yan Can Cook, so can you.

 

The above just reminded me of another great TV chef (the only one I watched growing up): Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet.

 

I remember him - and also Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gourmet.

 

I find him insufferable. He's like the Bill Maher of the culinary world.

 

Reminds me of a Canadian show hosted by Stephen Yan called "Wok with Yan" Every show he had a different pun based on wok on his apron e.g. Wok's cooking pussycat, wok the heck, etc

Then there was Pasquale the singing chef who poured some wine into his mug for good measure whenever he had to use some for a recipe, which was every show. My Dad worked with when he was younger and told me the wine in the mug wasn't just for show...he was found of wine when working. I think PBS carried the show at some point.

 

Probably why the Food Network is dominated by Diners Drive Ins & Dives and Chopped. Read recently their ratings are dropping.

 

I'm amazed that nobody has punched Gordon Ramsay in the face.

 

Deservedly so if true.

 

Julia. Jacques. Sometimes Lydia.

James Beard and Dione Lucas, but you can't find those any more.

 

I can't watch him. What a first rate jack a$$

 

It's American Idol for cook basically.

And the title of the show Beat Bobby Flay got my hopes up.

 

I will always have this memory of the late Tony Rosato:

SCTV - Cooking With Marcello: Lobster Cacciatore (Series 3-9 , Airdate:
14 November 1980), a parody of Pasquale's Kitchen.

 

I'm sure many people have.

As grossly overexposed as he is on FOX, he is not phoney. I ate at his restaurant "Maze", in the London Hotel in NYC (now closed). Having worked as a professional chef myself, I have to say that it was one of the best restaurant meals I've ever had. Reasonably priced, too.

 

I like Andreas Viestad from Scandinavian Cooking.

Such a great show, part cooking show, part travel show.
I love it.

 

I tried to watch his show a few different time.
I came to the conclusion that Gordon must be really good at fighting otherwise somebody would have smashed his foul mouth in at some point.

 

Hear, hear! I couldn't stand watching Julia Child (her voice turned me off, and I loved the way Dan Akyroyd lampooned her on SNL), but I really enjoyed Graham Kerr's show. Too bad he seems to have been forgotten.

 

Today, at 82, Mr. Kerr is more measured. His leaping days are over, but he still speed walks every morning from his house here, an hour north of Seattle, where he lives with his daughter Tessa and her husband.


New beginnings for Graham Kerr

New beginnings for Graham Kerr

• By MARILYN NAPIER @Marilyn_SVH
• Feb 12, 2017

Kerr, 83, will be leaving his Mount Vernon residence — and about 600 of his belongings — for a move to Warm Beach in Stanwood.

 

And here he is after galloping onto the set, jumping over the chair with his wine ("short slurp") in hand, back in his late 60s heyday! Just for you.