A TV cooking show is a television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, often a celebrity chef

Celebrity chef

A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become famous and well known. Today celebrity chefs often become celebrities by presenting cookery advice and demonstrations via mass media, especially television. Historically, celebrity chefs have included Antoine Carême and Martino da Como.-External...

, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience through the food's preparation showing all intermediate stages of cooking. These shows are often intended to be at least partly educational, as the host teaches the viewing audience how to prepare different meals with each episode of the show; though some cooking shows (such as Iron Chef

Iron Chef

is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1992, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended...

or "Junior Masterchef") are intended simply for entertainment.

While rarely achieving top ratings, cooking shows have been a popular staple of daytime TV programming since the earliest days of television. http://flowtv.org/?p=1316 They are generally very inexpensive to produce, making them an economically easy way for a TV station to fill a half-hour (or sometimes 60 minute) TV episode.

A number of cooking shows have run for many seasons, especially when they are sponsored by local TV stations or by public broadcasting

Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be...

. Many of the more popular cooking shows have had flamboyant hosts whose unique personalities have made them into celebrities.

Famous cooking shows include:

La cocina de Karlos Arguiñano (Karlos Arguiñano Karlos Arguiñano Karlos Arguiñano Urkiola is a chef, popular TV presenter and producer.His devotion to cuisine started when he was a child and helped at home because he was the eldest of four brothers and had a disabled mother.Before beginning his training in the field of cooking, he worked for CAF, a rail car... ) 30 Minute Meals 30 Minute Meals 30 Minute Meals is a Food Network show hosted by Rachael Ray. Her first of four shows on Food Network debuted in the fall of 2001. The show specializes in convenience cooking for those with little time to cook. The show is recorded live-to-tape, with Ray doing almost all preparation in real time... (Rachael Ray Rachael Ray Rachael Domenica Ray is an American television personality, businesswoman, celebrity chef and author. She hosts the syndicated talk and lifestyle program Rachael Ray and three Food Network series, 30 Minute Meals, Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels and $40 a Day... ) America's Test Kitchen America's Test Kitchen America's Test Kitchen is a half-hour cooking show distributed to public television stations in the United States, also airing in Canada... Barefoot Contessa Barefoot Contessa Barefoot Contessa is a cooking show that premiered November 30, 2002 on Food Network. This popular show is hosted by celebrity chef Ina Garten. Each episode features Garten assembling dishes of varying complexity. Though her speciality is French cuisine, she occasionally prepares American, Asian,... (Ina Garten Ina Garten Ina Rosenberg Garten is an American author, host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa, and former White House nuclear policy analyst... ) Capital Cooking (Lauren DeSantis) Celebrity Cooks Celebrity Cooks Celebrity Cooks was a Canadian cooking show independently produced by Initiative Productions and aired on the CBC from 1975 to 1979 and on Global from 1980 to 1984. It was syndicated throughout Canada and the United States from 1980 to 1989. It was hosted by Bruno Gerussi who introduced various... Chim Pai Bon Pai or Tasting and Grumbling (Samak Sundaravej Samak Sundaravej Samak Sundaravej was a Thai Chinese politician who briefly served as the Prime Minister of Thailand and Minister of Defense in 2008, as well as the leader of the People's Power Party in 2008.-Early life and family:... ) The Cookin' Cajun David Rocco's Dolce Vita David Rocco's Dolce Vita David Rocco's Dolce Vita is a television show hosted by David Rocco. The show is shot on location in and around the cities and countrysides of Italy, following the cultural, social, and culinary escapades of David and his friends. Besides cooking, the show explores the Italian ways of life and ways... Dining Downunder Dining Downunder Dining Downunder is an Australian cooking show hosted by celebrity chefs – Vic Cherikoff , Benjamin Christie and Mark McCluskey. The series began airing in 2004 on the ABC Asia Pacific, and ended its run in 2006.... (Vic Cherikoff Vic Cherikoff Vic Cherikoff is regarded as an authority on Australian native foods and its associated industry, having been involved in the selection and commercialization of many of the 35 or so indigenous Australian plant foods now in the market place....  and Benjamin Christie) Emeril Live Emeril Live Emeril Live is a program on The Cooking Channel hosted by Emeril Lagasse. It formerly aired on Food Network and Fine Living.Emeril Live features many of the same elements as Emeril's other program, Essence of Emeril, and often has a Creole theme... (Emeril Lagasse Emeril Lagasse 'Emeril John Lagasse is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and cookbook author. A regional James Beard Award winner, he is perhaps most notable for his Food Network shows Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril as well as catchphrases such as “Kick it up a notch!” and... ) Hot Kitchen (Wendy Lincoln) MasterChef (Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay Gordon James Ramsay, OBE is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars.... , Graham Elliot Graham Elliot Graham Elliot Bowles , known professionally as Graham Elliot, is a Chicago, Illinois-based chef.-Personal life:Elliot was born in Seattle, Washington, as a self-described "Navy brat". He dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and started out in the food business as a dishwasher and bus boy for... , Joe Bastianich) Mexico: One Plate at a Time Mexico: One Plate at a Time Mexico: One Plate at a Time is a television series starring chef Rick Bayless distributed to public television stations by WTTW. The show is currently broadcasting its seventh season... with Rick Bayless Rick Bayless Rick Bayless is an American chef who specializes in traditional Mexican cuisine with modern interpretations. He is perhaps best known for his PBS series Mexico: One Plate at a Time.... New Scandinavian Cooking New Scandinavian Cooking New Scandinavian Cooking is a Scandinavian cooking show which over the course of five seasons was hosted by Andreas Viestad, Tina Nordström and Claus Meyer, produced by Tellus Works in collaboration with American Public Television... The F-Word The F-Word The F Word is a British food magazine and cooking show featuring chef Gordon Ramsay. The programme covers a wide range of topics, from recipes to food preparation and celebrity food fads. The programme is made by Optomen Television and aired weekly on Channel 4... (Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay Gordon James Ramsay, OBE is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars.... ) The French Chef The French Chef The French Chef is an influential television cooking show created by Julia Child, and produced and broadcast by WGBH Public television in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 11, 1963 to 1973. It was one of the first cooking shows on television... (Julia Child Julia Child Julia Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for introducing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which... ) The Frugal Gourmet (Jeff Smith Jeff Smith (TV personality) Jeffrey L. Smith was the author of a dozen best-selling cookbooks and the host of The Frugal Gourmet, a popular American cooking show which began in Tacoma, Washington around 1973 and aired on PBS from 1983 to 1997 , and numbered 261 episodes.-Early life:Jeff Smith was born on January 22, 1939... )

The Galloping Gourmet (Graham Kerr Graham Kerr Graham Kerr is a cooking personality who is best known for his television cooking show The Galloping Gourmet.- Biography :... ) Good Eats Good Eats Good Eats is a television cooking show created and hosted by Alton Brown which airs in North America on Food Network. Likened to television science educators Mr. Wizard and Bill Nye, Brown explores the science and technique behind the cooking, the history of different foods, and the advantages of... (Alton Brown Alton Brown Alton Crawford Brown is an American television personality, author, actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats and the mini-series Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and he is the host and main commentator on Iron Chef America... ) Great Chefs Great Chefs Great Chefs is a franchise of cooking shows and cookbooks that began with thirteen half hour programs produced for the American Public Broadcasting Service entitled Great Chefs of New Orleans... Hell's Kitchen (UK) (Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay Gordon James Ramsay, OBE is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars.... ) Hell's Kitchen (U.S.) Hell's Kitchen (U.S.) Hell's Kitchen is an American reality-television cooking competition broadcast on Fox... (Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay Gordon James Ramsay, OBE is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars.... ) Hippy Gourmet Hippy Gourmet The Hippy Gourmet TV Show is a United States Public Television Series that airs nationally on Public Broadcasting Service and public-access television cable stations. The show is based in the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco, but travels the world highlighting organic, sustainable agriculture,... Iron Chef Iron Chef is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1992, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended... Iron Chef America Iron Chef America Iron Chef America: The Series is an American cooking show based on Fuji Television's Iron Chef, and is the second American adaptation of the series, following the failed Iron Chef USA. The show is produced by Food Network, which also carried a dubbed version of the original Iron Chef. Like the... The Naked Chef (Jamie Oliver Jamie Oliver James "Jamie" Trevor Oliver, MBE , sometimes known as The Naked Chef, is an English chef, restaurateur and media personality, known for his food-focused television shows, cookbooks and more recently his campaign against the use of processed foods in national schools... ) Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a television programme featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. The BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning programme debuted on Channel 4 in 2004.... (Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay Gordon James Ramsay, OBE is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars.... ) Kitchen Nightmares Kitchen Nightmares Kitchen Nightmares is an American reality television series broadcast on the Fox network, in which Chef Gordon Ramsay spends a week with a failing restaurant in an attempt to revive the business. It is based on the British show Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. The show is produced by ITV Studios... (Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay Gordon James Ramsay, OBE is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars.... ) Ready Steady Cook Ready Steady Cook Ready Steady Cook was a BBC daytime TV cooking programme it first debuted on 24 October 1994 and the last edition was broadcast on the 2 February 2010. The programme was hosted by Fern Britton from 1994 until 2000 when celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott became the new host... So Good Top Chef Top Chef Top Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo, in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants... Two Fat Ladies Two Fat Ladies Two Fat Ladies was a BBC Two television cooking programme starring Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson. It originally ran for four seasons, from 1996 to 1999. The show was produced by the BBC and also appeared on the Food Network in the U.S. and on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation... Wok with Yan Wok with Yan Wok with Yan was a Chinese cuisine cooking show starring Stephen Yan. The show was first produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by the CBC at CBUT from 1980 to 1982. A second edition of the show was also produced in the early 1990s... (Stephen Yan Stephen Yan Stephen Yan was the host of the successful Canadian television cooking show Wok with Yan.The Vancouver-based chef moved to Canada in the 1960s and owned two Chinese restaurants in Vancouver. His hit show was originally produced at CBOT in Ottawa from 1980 to 1995 and was syndicated in the United... ) Yan Can Cook Yan Can Cook Yan Can Cook is a Chinese cuisine cooking show starring Martin Yan that featured recipes for stirfrys and other traditional Chinese meals. Martin had a catchphrase, "If Yan can cook, so can you!", with which he used to sign off each show... (Martin Yan Martin Yan Martin Yan is a Chinese-born American chef and the host of the award-winning cooking show Yan Can Cook.- Early years and education :With ancestral roots in Kaiping, Guangdong, China, Yan was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, to a restaurateur father and a grocer mother, Yan began to cook at 12... )

The cable TV channel Food Network

Food Network

Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....

 has showcased many cooking shows.

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• Baking With Julia
  Baking With Julia
  Baking With Julia is an American television cooking program produced by Julia Child and the name of the book which accompanied the series. Each episode featured one pastry chef or baker who demonstrates professional techniques that can be performed in a home kitchen...
  
  
• Barbecue America
  Barbecue America
  Barbecue America is a cooking show on public television. In this show, host and series creator Rick Browne, makes everything on a grill. He wears a "table cloth" shirt, actually made from a red and white checked table cloth....
  
  
• Barefoot Contessa
  Barefoot Contessa
  Barefoot Contessa is a cooking show that premiered November 30, 2002 on Food Network. This popular show is hosted by celebrity chef Ina Garten. Each episode features Garten assembling dishes of varying complexity. Though her speciality is French cuisine, she occasionally prepares American, Asian,...
  
  
• Best Recipes Ever
  Best Recipes Ever
  Best Recipes Ever is a Canadian cooking show, which debuted January 4, 2010 on CBC Television. Produced by the CBC in conjunction with Canadian Living magazine, the show is hosted by Kary Osmond....
  
  
• Big Daddy's House
  Big Daddy's House
  Big Daddy's House is a cooking show on the American specialty channel Food Network. The show stars Aaron McCargo, Jr., the winner of the fourth season of the network's reality television series, The Next Food Network Star. The six-episode first season was McCargo's grand prize for winning the...
  
  

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• Can't Cook, Won't Cook
  Can't Cook, Won't Cook
  Can't Cook, Won't Cook was a UK game show and cooking programme that was broadcast on BBC1 on weekday mornings usually after the Breakfast News from 20 November 1995 to 7 July 2000.-Format:...
  
  
• Celebrity Cooking Showdown
  Celebrity Cooking Showdown
  Celebrity Cooking Showdown is a program that aired on NBC from April 17-19 and April 22, 2006. It was hosted by Alan Thicke.- Format :The competition was divided into three "preliminary rounds", where each celebrity was paired with a famous chef...
  
  
• Chef's Story
  Chef's Story
  Chef's Story is a 26-Part Public Television series featuring Dorothy Cann Hamilton interviewing well known chefs and restaurateurs.Hamilton, founder and CEO of The French Culinary Institute, conducts the interviews in front of culinary students in the first half of each episode.Each chef then moves...
  
  
• Chefs A' Field
  Chefs A' Field
  Chefs A’ Field is an American documentary cooking series broadcast on PBS that focuses on the personal stories of farmers, fishermen, foragers and chefs, offering viewers a new way of looking at their food, environment, and community .Each episode of Chefs A’ Field starts with a well-known...
  
  
• Chinese Food Made Easy
  Chinese Food Made Easy
  Chinese Food Made Easy by Ching He Huang is a 6-part cooking television series commissioned and shown by BBC Two and BBC HD.-Overview:The series contains Ching's own versions of easy to make Chinese Food, spicy Szechuan food, Noodles, Dim sum, Sea Food, Fast Food, Desserts and Celebratory Food,...
  
  
• Chocolate with Jacques Torres
  Chocolate with Jacques Torres
  Chocolate with Jacques Torres is a North American television cooking show hosted by renowned pastry chef and chocolate aficionado, Jacques Torres. It premiered in on the Food Network in 2002....
  
  
• Cooked TV
• Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen
  Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen
  Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen is a half-hour cooking show on PBS. The show is shot in a renovated 1806 farmhouse located in Rupert, Vermont.- Cast and Content :...
  
  
• Cookin' Cheap
  Cookin' Cheap
  Cookin' Cheap was a nationally syndicated cooking show, originally hosted by Larry Bly and Earl "Laban" Johnson, Jr. . Cookin' Cheap began its run in 1981 on Blue Ridge Public Television...
  
  
• Cooking Live
  Cooking Live
  Cooking Live was an American television cooking show on Food Network. Hosted by Sara Moulton, the show was broadcast live daily and featured Moulton preparing various dishes and taking calls from viewers....
  
  
• Cooking with Master Chefs: Hosted by Julia Child
  Cooking with Master Chefs: Hosted by Julia Child
  Cooking with Master Chefs was a PBS television cooking show that featured Julia Child visiting 16 celebrated chefs in the United States. An episode that featured Lidia Bastianich was nominated for a 1994 Emmy Award. Other chefs she visited included Emeril Lagasse, Jacques Pépin, and Alice Waters...
  
  
• ...Cooks!

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• Daisy Cooks!
  Daisy Cooks!
  Daisy Cooks! is a half-hour cooking show on PBS starring Daisy Martinez which features Spanish-Caribbean, Puerto Rican, and Mexican cuisine and their preparation.- Episodes :Daisy Cooks! is a half-hour cooking show on PBS starring Daisy Martinez which features Spanish-Caribbean, Puerto Rican, and...
  
  
• Dinner and a Movie
  Dinner and a Movie
  Dinner and a Movie is a cooking and entertainment television program produced in the U.S. by TBS from 1995 to 2011.Each episode included a movie and the preparation of a creative dinner to go with the theme of the movie, generally via a pun...
  
  
• Dinner: Impossible
  Dinner: Impossible
  Dinner: Impossible is an American television program broadcast by the Food Network. The first episode aired on January 24, 2007. Food Network began airing the eighth season on March 3, 2010....
  
  
• Domestic Goddess
• Down Home with the Neelys
  Down Home with the Neelys
  Down Home with the Neelys is a Food Network show hosted by Patrick and Gina Neely. In the show, they share the secrets behind their favorite dishes and their passion for food. Videotaped in their Memphis home surrounded by family and friends, the show now airs seven days a week on Food Network...
  
  

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• East Meets West
  East Meets West (TV Series)
  East Meets West is a popular cooking show on the Food Network hosted by the renowned Chinese American chef Ming Tsai. During the half-hour show, Tsai cooked Asian-European fusion cuisine. East Meets West aired from 1998 to 2003. In 1999, Tsai won the Daytime Emmy award in the category Outstanding...
  
  
• Emeril Green
  Emeril Green
  Emeril Green is a program on Planet Green hosted by Emeril Lagasse.The series is set in Whole Foods Market, where Chef Lagasse and the store’s team help average people shop for the freshest ingredients while explaining the benefits of organic, locally grown and seasonal produce...
  
  
• Emeril Live
  Emeril Live
  Emeril Live is a program on The Cooking Channel hosted by Emeril Lagasse. It formerly aired on Food Network and Fine Living.Emeril Live features many of the same elements as Emeril's other program, Essence of Emeril, and often has a Creole theme...
  
  
• Epic Meal Time
  Epic Meal Time
  Epic Meal Time is a YouTube cooking show known for creating extremely high-calorie meals, generally out of meat products and including alcohol . It debuted in October 2010, and since then has started to release an episode every Tuesday. It is hosted by Harley Morenstein and a group of his friends...
  
  
• Essence of Emeril
  Essence of Emeril
  Essence of Emeril is a Food Network show hosted by chef Emeril Lagasse.In each episode, Emeril shares with his viewers some of his 'kicked-up' recipes, similar to those on Emeril Live, but with a far calmer demeanor and quieter tone, and usually without the trademark apron that has become his...
  
  
• Everyday Italian
  Everyday Italian
  Everyday Italian is a Food Network show hosted by Giada De Laurentiis. In the show, De Laurentiis focuses for her viewers on traditional Italian cuisine with an American flair, such as herb-crusted lamb and chocolate-ricotta pie.-Popularity:...
  
  

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• Get Stuffed
  Get Stuffed
  Get Stuffed is a British Television series of cookery shorts in which young members of the public demonstrate cooking their favorite dishes in their own kitchens.-Production:...
  
  
• Giada at Home
  Giada at Home
  Giada at Home is a television show hosted by Giada De Laurentiis. It first aired on October 18, 2008 on the Food Network.The show was nominated for two Daytime Emmys in 2009: for Outstanding Culinary Program and Outstanding Directing in a Lifestyle/Culinary Program, and won for the latter award.The...
  
  
• Glutton for Punishment
  Glutton for Punishment
  Glutton for Punishment is a program on Food Network hosted by Bob Blumer and produced by Paperny Films. The show features the host in various food-related challenges. He is given five days to become proficient enough in the episode's featured specialty. His newly acquired skills are then put to...
  
  
• Good Eats
  Good Eats
  Good Eats is a television cooking show created and hosted by Alton Brown which airs in North America on Food Network. Likened to television science educators Mr. Wizard and Bill Nye, Brown explores the science and technique behind the cooking, the history of different foods, and the advantages of...
  
  
• Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live
  Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live
  Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live is a British cooking show starring Gordon Ramsay. Originally conceived as a one-off episode, Channel 4 later commissioned a full series for late 2008...
  
  
• Gordon's Great Escape
  Gordon's Great Escape
  Gordon's Great Escape is a television series presented by chef Gordon Ramsay.Series 1 follows Ramsay's first visit to India, where he explores the country's culinary traditions...
  
  
• The Gourmet Next Door
• Great British Menu
  Great British Menu
  Great British Menu is a BBC television series in which top British chefs compete for the chance to cook one course of a four course banquet. The first series banquet was for the Queen on her 80th birthday. The second series was to cook for the British Ambassador to France at the British Embassy...
  
  
• Great Chefs
  Great Chefs
  Great Chefs is a franchise of cooking shows and cookbooks that began with thirteen half hour programs produced for the American Public Broadcasting Service entitled Great Chefs of New Orleans...
  
  
• Great Food Live
  Great Food Live
  Great Food Live, formerly Good Food Live, was a British magazine programme hosted by Jeni Barnett and broadcast on UKTVFood part of the UKTV Network between 2001 and 2007. Jeni Barnett was joined every day by a chef co-host...
  
  
• Greatest Dishes in the World
  Greatest Dishes In The World
  Greatest Dishes In The World is a five part cooking based programme presented by Naomi Cleaver. Each week some of Britain's best chefs prepare what they consider to be the best dishes in the world. At the end of the programme restaurant critics judge each dish and decide which is the best...
  
  
• Guy's Big Bite
  Guy's Big Bite
  Guy's Big Bite is a Food Network show starring Guy Fieri, winner of the second season of The Next Food Network Star. The inaugural six-episode season premiered on June 25, 2006 in the 10:00 am/EST timeslot. Currently Guy's Big Bite airs Sundays at 11am EST/PST.Food Network renewed the series after...
  
  

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• The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook
  The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook
  The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook is a BBC television cookery and travel programme, that has so far run for four series and a Christmas special...
  
  
• The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain
  The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain
  The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain is a 2009 BBC television cookery programme which is presented by The Hairy Bikers: Dave Myers and Si King....
  
  
• Have Fork, Will Travel
  Have Fork, Will Travel
  Have Fork, Will Travel is a television show that premiered on September 4, 2007, and is broadcast on the Food Network. Host Zane Lamprey travels to various countries, exploring the native cuisine and culture. Visited countries include France, Jamaica, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Norway, and Russia...
  
  
• Hell's Kitchen (U.S.)
  Hell's Kitchen (U.S.)
  Hell's Kitchen is an American reality-television cooking competition broadcast on Fox...
  
  

• Hippy Gourmet
  Hippy Gourmet
  The Hippy Gourmet TV Show is a United States Public Television Series that airs nationally on Public Broadcasting Service and public-access television cable stations. The show is based in the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco, but travels the world highlighting organic, sustainable agriculture,...
  
  
• How to Boil Water
  How to Boil Water
  How to Boil Water is an American television program. One of the first shows on the Food Network, it began broadcasting in 1993 and was first hosted by Emeril Lagasse...
  
  
• Hot Kitchen

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• Martha
  Martha (TV series)
  Martha, also known as The Martha Stewart Show, is an American, weekday one-hour talk show hosted by Martha Stewart. Previously airing in first-run syndication, the show began exclusively airing on cable network Hallmark Channel since September 13, 2010.-History:The program originally debuted on...
  
  
• MasterChef
• Mexico: One Plate at a Time
  Mexico: One Plate at a Time
  Mexico: One Plate at a Time is a television series starring chef Rick Bayless distributed to public television stations by WTTW. The show is currently broadcasting its seventh season...
  
  

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• Nigella Bites
• Nigella Express
• The Naughty Kitchen with Chef Blythe Beck
  The Naughty Kitchen with Chef Blythe Beck
  Naughty Kitchen is a reality based TV series that aired on the Oxygen Network between September and November 2009. The show featured Texas native , who was the new executive chef at restaurant inside the , a luxury boutique hotel in the heart of Dallas, Texas...
  
  
• New Scandinavian Cooking
  New Scandinavian Cooking
  New Scandinavian Cooking is a Scandinavian cooking show which over the course of five seasons was hosted by Andreas Viestad, Tina Nordström and Claus Meyer, produced by Tellus Works in collaboration with American Public Television...
  
  

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• Party Line with The Hearty Boys
  Party Line with The Hearty Boys
  Party Line with The Hearty Boys was a Food Network show hosted by real-life gay couple Dan Smith and Steve McDonagh . Smith and McDonagh launched the show after winning the network's reality contest, The Next Food Network Star, which granted them a six-show Food Network series...
  
  
• Paula's Best Dishes
  Paula's Best Dishes
  Paula's Best Dishes is a cooking show hosted by Paula Deen on Food Network- Background :Debuting on June 8, 2008, the show stars Paula Deen as she helps rescue viewer recipes, prepare dishes and shares stories....
  
  
• Paula's Home Cooking
  Paula's Home Cooking
  Paula's Home Cooking is a Food Network show hosted by Paula Deen. Deen's primary culinary focus is Southern cuisine and familiar comfort food that is popular with Americans. In the show, classic dishes such as pot roast, fried okra, and pecan pie are the norm, and overly complicated or eccentric...
  
  
• Post Punk Kitchen
  Post Punk Kitchen
  The Post Punk Kitchen is a vegan cooking show that aired on Brooklyn and Manhattan public-access television cable TV from 2003 to 2005. The shows were available on DVD as well....
  
  
• Pigsty In The Kitchen

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• Saturday Kitchen
  Saturday Kitchen
  Saturday Kitchen Live is a 90 minute cookery programme, which is broadcast live on BBC One on Saturday mornings. It is currently presented by James Martin; previous presenters have included Antony Worrall Thompson and Gregg Wallace. The programme is currently produced by Cactus TV...
  
  
• Simply Ming
  Simply Ming
  Simply Ming is a television cooking show hosted by chef Ming Tsai, and is produced by WGBH, Boston and Ming East-West, LLC. Simply Ming is presented by American Public Television.-Overview:...
  
  
• Sugar Rush
  Sugar Rush (Food Network)
  Sugar Rush is a TV show on the Food Network hosted by Warren Brown, a former lawyer who decided to become a pastry chef. Brown, who runs a pastry shop, Cake Love, and cafe, Love Cafe in Washington, DC, meets other pastry chefs and dessert makers and cooks with them. The show is currently in its...
  
  
• The Surreal Gourmet
  The Surreal Gourmet
  The Surreal Gourmet is a program on Food Network hosted by Bob Blumer. The show features creative techniques for cooking and the memorable Toastermobile. Generally the foods prepared on The Surreal Gourmet are intended to be served at parties or other get-togethers...
  
  
• Sunday Feast
  Sunday Feast
  Sunday Feast is a cookery show on British television channel ITV. The show's hosts are Andi Peters and Anneka Rice. Their two resident chefs, who alternate week by week, are Ed Baines and Paul Merrett....
  
  
• Selera Nusantara

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• Ten Dollar Dinners
  Ten Dollar Dinners
  Ten Dollar Dinners is a television program hosted by Melissa d'Arabian. It debuted August 9, 2009 at 12:30 PM EST. Melissa d'Arabian is the winner of the fifth season of The Next Food Network Star....
  
  
• The Best Thing I Ever Ate
  The Best Thing I Ever Ate
  The Best Thing I Ever Ate is a program on the Food Network which premiered on June 22, 2009 . The program originally aired as a one-time special in late 2008...
  
  
• Throwdown! with Bobby Flay
  Throwdown! with Bobby Flay
  Throwdown! with Bobby Flay is a Food Network television program in which celebrity chef Bobby Flay challenges cooks renowned for a specific dish or type of cooking to a cook-off of their signature dish....
  
  
• Top Chef
  Top Chef
  Top Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo, in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants...
  
  
• Top Chef Masters
  Top Chef Masters
  Top Chef Masters is an American reality competition show currently broadcast on the cable television network Bravo. It is a spinoff of Bravo's hit show Top Chef. In the series, 24 world-renowned chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges...
  
  
• Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin
  Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin
  Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin is a television, cooking show hosted by Gerry Garvin. The show airs on Sundays at 6:00 PM on the TV One network.-Program:...
  
  
• Two Fat Ladies
  Two Fat Ladies
  Two Fat Ladies was a BBC Two television cooking programme starring Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson. It originally ran for four seasons, from 1996 to 1999. The show was produced by the BBC and also appeared on the Food Network in the U.S. and on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
  
  

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• What Would Brian Boitano Make?
  What Would Brian Boitano Make?
  What Would Brian Boitano Make? is a cooking show on Food Network and is hosted by Brian Boitano. It first aired on August 23, 2009. The show features Boitano cooking several dishes and then entertaining his friends...
  
  
• Woman's World
  Woman's World (TV series)
  Woman's World was a cooking show that ran for more than two decades on WKRG channel 5 in Mobile, Alabama. It was hosted by Connie Bea Hope and Estella Payton. It aired at noontime and lasted for 30 minutes...
  
  
• World Class Cuisine
  World Class Cuisine
  World Class Cuisine is an American television program created by Jason Vogel and Arna Vodenos and co-produced by the Discovery Channel between 1993 to 1997 featuring the talents of professional chefs from around the globe. John Kavanaugh was a camera man for the show's duration and directed part...