response 1 of 48:

May 1 06:58 UTC 1993

   What about radio?  Does something like NPR have a cooking show?  I
can see someone like Susan Stanburg talking to a cook, while a mic is
picking up all the sizzling noises during the prepariation...

response 3 of 48:

May 1 18:57 UTC 1993

   I have, a couple of times, but then took off with the original and
made new things from it.

response 5 of 48:

May 3 01:15 UTC 1993

I used to watch the Frugal Gourmet quite a lot.  We have 4 of his cookbooks,
and have made many of his recipies.  Most were wonderful.  I can't recall
any bad ones, but there were one or two that seemed to have a lot of effort
for only a small result.
,

response 7 of 48:

May 4 00:36 UTC 1993

Maybe the Swedish chef could do lutefisk.  

How many fingers does he have, anyway?

response 9 of 48:

May 4 05:00 UTC 1993

Just an aside.  A few months ago, I read an interesting article about the Frl
(frugal) Gourmet in a magazine ( Harpers or Atlantic Monthly, I believe).   The
author was of the opinion that the Frugal Gourmet, how shall I put this?, tells
you how to make _WonderBread_ ethnic food.  It was a rather interesting flame. 
If anyone is interested, email me and I'll dig it up and post the articel.

response 11 of 48:

May 4 15:25 UTC 1993

   Please do, Nicholas.  I'd be interested in reading it.  I'm not
sure that I agree, after seeing some of the shows that talked about
Mediterranean food.  It seemed to pretty much track what I'd read
about it.

response 13 of 48:

May 5 22:47 UTC 1993

I like the Victory Garden cooking segments--my kids are real veggie fiends
and I love new ideas.

response 15 of 48:

Oct 27 13:40 UTC 1993

Monty Python Cooking Show on PBS?!! *I'd* watch it. Graham Kerr was running
a lower-fat, generally better for you series, updating recipes that would
keep Jane Brody ten paces away and making them into stuff that was actually
decent for you. I've watched Frugal Gourmet enough to always mutter, "Hot pan,
cold oil, food won't stick" to myself when cooking. Haven't seen Julia in
forever, except for borrowing her video on desserts from Ann Arbor Library
(Main).  Took it home and felt insufferably smug when I realized that I`ve been
*much* better at cake decorating than she for years. (A nasty source of good
feeling, but I'd held her in so much awe for so long that I thought I'd never
be up to her level in ANYTHING.) Occasionally, I like to watch the guy on
Discovery channel who was barely understandable, never said what he was
actually doing or what he was aiming for, and would break out in bad opera at
apparently random times. We'd never even see what his end result looked like.
He'd just chow down, if he felt like it.

response 17 of 48:

Dec 18 06:41 UTC 1995

what i've watched a few times is the _urban peasent_....VERY amusing....
my dad and i used to rotfl.......he never had the right utensil, so he'd
use something, ANYTHING else.....:)  and he was constantly telling 
stories...his cook books are even better!!!!

response 19 of 48:

Sep 3 08:14 UTC 1998

   There now is Food TV in Ann Arbor on ch 40. There are various chefs, for
all tastes. My personal favorites are Taste with David Rosengarten, Emeril
Live, The Essense of Emeril, and Cooking Live with Sara Moulton.

  Taste: Hosted by David Rosengarten is a 1/2 hour show usually on 1 topic
per show and he shows what the food is, how it is cooked, and then preparation
of two or three dishes using the featured food. Mr. Rosengarten is a highly
educated chef, and is the official wine consultant to Gracie Mansion (the
residence of the Mayor of New York City). 
  Emeril Live: Emeril Lagasse is a chef and restaurant owner of 4 restaurants
in New Orleans and Las Vegas. He has a one hour show, and he shows how to
make a complete meal, usually a theme for the evening. A recent one was Diner
food, and he made Patty Melts, Tuna Melts, Meat Loaf with Mashed Potatoes,
and Coconut Creme Pie. The only drawback is he loves to use huge amounts of
cayenne pepper and tabasco. One of his trademarks is to "kick it up a notch,
or kick it up notches unknown to man." I've made some of his recipes, and 
they are really good.
  Essense of Emeril: Another show with Chef Lagasse, and this is mostly an
instructional show showing how to cook certain foods.
  Cooking Live!: Sara Moulton is the Executive Editor of Gourmet Magazine
and her show is a mostly the same as Emeril's, except she takes calls from
people watching the show. I have not made any of her recipes, but I have
learned an awful lot about cooking from her.
  Julia Child's show runs at 6:30pm, and if you ever doubted that she is 
the Goddess of the Kitchen, just watch one of her shows. I saw her break two
eggs (one in each hand) without breaking the yolk. Definitly diety status when
you can do that. ;)

response 21 of 48:

Sep 4 05:27 UTC 1998

  I've seen it in recent months on PBS. I guess you'll have to watch the 
TV guide to find out when its on next.

response 23 of 48:

Jan 17 21:03 UTC 1999

ref #2: I miss seeing "Yan Can Cook" now that we don't do cable. Lots of his
recipes turned out well for me. Favorite tip from him: how to peel garlic by
crushing it under the cleaver.