Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1The French Chef (1963)The French Chef (1963) 8.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired Feb 2, 1963Boeuf Bourguignon, from the first season of The French Chef (1963) Julia Child walked viewers through a classic French stew in black and white on Boston's public station WGBH. What still teaches is her refusal to hide anything: when a dish misbehaved she kept going and showed how to rescue it,…0
  2. 2The Galloping Gourmet (1968)The Galloping Gourmet (1968) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 1, 1968The opening and closing of any episode, taped in Ottawa, 1968 to 1972 Graham Kerr runs onto the set and leaps over a dining chair, a stunt his wife and producer Treena Kerr dreamed up, then cooks in front of a live audience at CJOH-TV. The famous sip of wine was mostly a cue for the director to…0
  3. 3Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas (1975)Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas (1975)First aired Dec 15, 1975The BBC's 1975 Christmas series Of the several series Fanny Cradock made, this is the only one known to survive in the television archives, and it has been repeated in recent years on BBC Four, Good Food and Food Network UK, usually around Christmas. She takes viewers through a whole festive meal,…0
  4. 4Yan Can CookYan Can Cook 8.4/10 on IMDbA stir-fry demonstration from Yan Can Cook, KQED, from 1982 Martin Yan learned his television craft in Canada, where his earlier show Yan Can ran to 250 daily editions from CFAC in Calgary, before moving to San Francisco's public station and renaming it. His cleaver work and stir-frying are fast,…0
  5. 5Madhur JaffreyMadhur JaffreyBorn Aug 13, 1933Shrimp and rice with fresh Indian spices, her guest episode of In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs, PBS, 1995 Already a celebrated actress, with a Berlin Silver Bear for Shakespeare Wallah, and the author of An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973), Jaffrey fronted Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery…0
  6. 6Peter Russell-ClarkePeter Russell-ClarkeBorn Sep 19, 1935Come and Get It, ABC Australia, 1983 to 1992 Peter Russell-Clarke packed each episode of this healthy-eating program into five minutes, sometimes visiting the farms and factories where food is produced or explaining its history before finishing with a quick dish at the stove. The ABC made around…0
  7. 7Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery (1984)Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery (1984)First aired Oct 29, 1984A wok demonstration from the 1984 BBC series Ken Hom, born in Tucson, Arizona, and a cooking teacher in California before the BBC auditioned him, made stir-frying look like something any British kitchen could manage. He even developed a flat-bottomed wok in the 1980s because round ones did not…0
  8. 8Floyd on Fish (1985)Floyd on Fish (1985) 8.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired Nov 14, 1985The bouillabaisse episode, BBC, 1985 Keith Floyd visits the fish market at Newlyn in Cornwall and cooks far from any studio, glass of wine in hand, chatting to his crew as if the cameras were an afterthought. That style made him a pioneer of taking cooking programs out of the studio, and Antony…0
  9. 9Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin' 8.7/10 on IMDbA Cajun dish from Louisiana Cookin', Louisiana Public Broadcasting, 1980s Justin Wilson made his programs for Louisiana's public network, and PBS carried Louisiana Cookin' nationwide, bringing Cajun home cooking to viewers far from the bayou. His easygoing manner and his promise of results, the…0
  10. 10Jacques PépinJacques PépinToday's Gourmet, filmed at KQED in San Francisco, from 1991 Jacques Pépin had cooked for Charles de Gaulle and written La Technique, still used as a textbook for the fundamentals of French cooking, before he became a familiar face on public television. For this list, his hands are the reason to…0