Top 10 Cooking Shows

Which is Your Favorite Cooking Show?


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My love for cooking began as a result of my close relationship with my Mother, who, without a doubt, was the best chef I've ever known. I remember reading the Quaker Oatmeal box and making oatmeal cookies from the printed recipes. While my mom was a stickler for keeping her kitchen spotless, she would give a wink and a nod of appreciation and recognition when I brought her some fresh baked cookies, as well as for my 4 brothers, knowing full well that I left a mess in the kitchen. Anyway, I learned early on that cooking was not so much following a recipe, but simply improvising and experimenting with well known dishes, as well as using common ingredients found in one dish, and preparing another entirely different meal. So it began, when I was 10, and then when I was a young 19 year old WO-1, that I began to experiment with those dreaded C-rats and making what what started out as canned swill, and converting what by definition, I would never call food, into palatable and tasty dishes. As the saying goes, the rest became my history.

Soooo, by way of China, I've listed what I think are ten interesting cooking shows. Choose your favorite, and if it's not listed, post yours.

BTW, recipes are welcome. Bon apetit.
 
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I watch many cooking shows but Jacques is a favorite of mine - I probably have all of his series (Fast Food My Way, Jacques and Julia, Essential Pepin etc) permanently recorded on our DVR and re-watch them periodically.
 
There are no good ones anymore except maybe Alton. The older shows were on PBS and not like a stupid game show. Just a bunch of "big names" out to make more money.

Graham Kerr was good before and after is transformation.

The G Gourmet had history behind his cooking (no he wasn't a pervert)

Julia started it all.

Dan Aykroyd was the best:D Save the liver!

The French Chef - Video Dailymotion
 
I also have to vote for 2 not on the list:

Justin Wilson - home cooking for me
Alton Brown - love the science behind the recipes.
 
Andrew Zimmern's show is not so much a cooking show as a chronicle of his adventures in eating around the world. He'll try anything that other people are eating, and looks like he has a lot of fun doing it.

Yet I know he has good taste. I used to eat at a place in Minneapolis where he was a chef, and I know the Twin Cities restaurants he likes to prowl when he is home.

My attention span for most cooking shows is not too long, maybe a little bit longer than it is for Oprah, so I haven't got too much to say about the others.
 
Extra Virgin. This guy makes very light Tuscan food. It's also a reality show but i still like it anyway, and one time he took his wife to the range to go shooting. This show actually got me to eat more vegetables and pig out less on massive overflowing platters of mexican food, for example.
 
Diners Drive-ins and Dives.. Real food done by real people.. May not like it but always interesting..
This is a very inspiring show. He goes around hanging out with very innovative people in an extremely tough business to succeed in, and they work so hard every day and really enjoy it. Almost as much as their customers. and these eatery owners just keep coming up with the most inventive stuff.
 
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives

My favorite, Guy is a great host, funny and gives us an idea what the average person is enjoying through out the US.

No chef in the world could make it like good old Mom.

Gourmet and Chandeliers, just not my style, great food in dives, and small family restaurants. If you walk by and look in, you will see my chowing down with a big smile on my face.;)

And boy do we have plenty up here in Boston.:)
 
There is a big difference between cooking show (how to) and restaurant or places to eat and challenges.

Many years there was a great Italian show, Cooking With Carlos on PBS. I would watch it when I came home for lunch. I scribbled down recipes. Still have them. Wish I had found and bought his book.

I use some of Alton Browns recipes also, We have all the Frugs Books (ya ya, I don't want to here it he was a great chef before his life was ruined it was never proven) He incorporated the history and origin of food in cultures.
 

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