Your Favorite Cooking Shows.

[Tomasso]

I'll start off with:

Anything by Julia Childs or Jacques Pepin.

 

[lolly_loisides]

Keith Floyd was fun, but my very favorite were the Two Fat Ladies (Clarisa Dickson Wright & Jennifer Paterson).

 

[Derek WC]

Steven Raichland in Primal Grill.

 

[LordBest]

In no particular order:

Heston's Feasts: Not quite recipes you can replicate at home, but in my opinion Heston Blumenthal is one of the few 'celebrity chefs' worthy of attention and I always enjoy this production.

Anything with Nigella Lawson. Quite a few of her recipes have ended up as family favourites, possibly more than any other cooking program.

The above mentioned Two Fat Ladies. I loved watching this show when it was first on television.

Masterchef Australia. This show has its faults, being rather too dramatic and emotional for my tastes, but many of the Masterclass recipes are sound and it has done wonders for food culture in this country.

 

[Puzzicato]

The Jamie Does... series. I don't usually like Jamie Oliver's style of cooking, but this 6 parter was amazing.
The Great British Bake Off - not as much tedious combat-cooking as most cookery competitions, and some really interesting history.
Iron Chef - the Japanese original. I haven't seen Iron Chef America but Iron Chef UK is ridiculous.
Anything with Rick Stein.
Food Lovers Guide - I think Joanna Saville and Maeve O'Meara should have a much higher profile.

 

[Kate O Potato]

I love Valentine Warner. He's horrendously posh, but really sweet and childlike.

Oh, and Nigella is also a firm favourite, obviously. Even though there's an un-necessary amount of lounging/rolling in bed with chocolate desserts.

 

[laotou]

Alton Brown is my hero.:eusa_clap

 

[Puzzicato]

I love Valentine Warner. He's horrendously posh, but really sweet and childlike.

And very, very attractive

 

[Miss sofia]

Two fat ladies, two magnificent ladies more like - (oh and CDW's autobiography is worth a read too if you haven't).

Nigella - although i do find the food appreciation thing a bit of a yawn now, but great food and she's just a doll!

Delia Smith - well, she's just an institution and i have all her books and i find all her recipes work really well.

The Galloping Gourmet and Fanny Craddock for nostalgia's sake.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

Floyd

 

[Bebop]

Jacques Pepin is the master. A great teacher that does not have overproduced or cutesy shows (my complaint about the Food Network).

The Frugal Gourmet, Jeff Smith always taught me something and was entertaining.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Stodge in a Blanket & Lard in a Bucket"

Keith Floyd was fun, but my very favorite were the Two Fat Ladies (Clarisa Dickson Wright & Jennifer Paterson).

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[Diamondback]

Alton Brown is my hero.:eusa_clap

Ditto. Guy Fieri does pretty good with Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives too, and I have a foodie-crush on both Nigella and Giada de Laurentiis.

 

[Tomasso]

I am soooo thankful that nobody mentioned Emeril.............Let's make this a no Bam zone............

 

[Diamondback]

But by all means, let's kick it up a notch with some High Intensity Culinary Combat from the Iron Chefs. lol

 

[CopperNY]

current: Alton and Nigella

past: Frugal Gourmet, Yan Can Cook, Two Fat Ladies

(thanks to Martin Yan, i still pull out the chinese chef knife/cleaver over my 10" Global on occasion)

and of course, Julia.

for a slight OT, i will admit to being a -total- Anthony Bourdain fanboy.

 

[Smithy]

The simply irreplaceable Floyd, he was brilliant and...
Two Fat Ladies
Hudson & Halls
and of course Posh Nosh

 

[Wire9Vintage]

Jamie Oliver is my hero. And Ina Garten's recipes are returned to over and over.

Delia Smith's show (the one shown in the U.S. about 15 years ago) is what got me interested in cooking. She made it look so interesting. What I love about Jamie and Ina is that there really isn't anything out of the ordinary about their ingredients, but the dishes end up out of the ordinary. Perfect.

And, of course, Alton Brown explains WHY things work, which is the BEST way to learn to cook.

 

[Chasseur]

Pretty similar to the other posters: Julie, Pepin (his books are great as well!) in particular, but I also enjoyed the Two Fat Ladies (my mom was a big fan and I bought their books for her) and also the Frugal Gourmet: Jeff Smith.

I generally can't stand a lot of the "high profile" Food Channel people who have gimmicks or need that bad cable "in your face intense" blah, blah stuff for cooking. The "Bizzare Food" guy really bothers me when he goes someplace and 'eats bizzare food' that is actually pretty normal. I remember he did one show in Hawaii and the "bizzare food" was trailing along some guys who hunted wild boar (really feral pig in Hawaii) and then did a pig roast... Just didn't get that at all... I'm waiting for "Next week, I'll go to Vermont and try this bizzare ice cream Ben and Jerry's"...

 

[Diamondback]

Can't believe I forgot to mention Bobby Flay on Throwdown.

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