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Do you have a favorite chef or cook?

cherry — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:28:47 GMT

I'm speaking of a TV chef or cook. My favorites have always been popular ones. I have always loved Julia Childe , and Jacque Pepin, and Martha Stewart

Julia sort of blazed a trail for everyone else. She was a bit of a wild card ,and when she was first on Tv ,you never quite knew what to expect from her. She wasn't one bit stuffy

I have always loved Jacque Pepin for his kindness, as well as his food. I love to see him with his granddaughter. She is the apple of his eye, and you can just see how much he loves her. I like to hear him him talk about his mother's restaurant, in France, and see him with his friend John Claude.

I really like Martha because, she is a wonderful teacher, and always makes something original ,and different from the rest. I really liked her with her mother, who was a wonderful cook

There are others I enjoy, but these 3 are my favorites

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tansy — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:30:40 GMT

Ina Garten, otherwise known as the barefoot contessa.

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JaneMarple — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:35:02 GMT

Lidia Bastianich

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QVCkitty1 — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:34:54 GMT

Ina Garten, Demaris Phillips and sometimes Bobby Flay.

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reiki604 — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:35:47 GMT

DH......and yes he has been on TV

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deepwaterdotter — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:36:44 GMT

Bridget Lancaster ("Cook's Country" on PBS)

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Ms tyrion2 — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:37:24 GMT

I like pretty much all the TV chefs on PBS. Jacques Pepin is a particular favorite. I like Ming Tsai and the Japanese chefs on Cooking With the Chef too.

There is one I don't care for at all. The Jazzy Vegetarian. She has her overly auto tuned voice singing throughout the show and not only is it bad, it's distracting. Her recipes are not very appetizing, which is a shame. Some appetizing vegetarian recipes would be nice. I'm not at all attracted to vegan.

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blackhole99 — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:40:14 GMT

Ina and Lidia. I like watching LB on our PBS station on Saturday.

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cherry — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:41:34 GMT

I love her ( Lidia) and especailly with Grandma. I like the chefs who reveal some ot their life ,as they cook

The used to have a guy from NOLA I liked, and all at once he was gone. It seems he was sexual harasser OY....I would have never guessed it. I could be a a room of 100 respectable people and I would somehow make a bee line for the 1 bad egg

They have replaced, him with a huge black guy, built like a football player, and as gentle and a lamb. He is a lot of fun

I didn't know Jacque was in a terrible car accident back ,in around the 1970's ,and nearly died. He hit a deer, I think, and was really in very bad shape. American Masters did a program about him. Watch for it, I think you will like it

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Diva on The Q — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:50:53 GMT

Oh my, I have several favorites! Here are the ones that come to mind:

Vivian Howard

Curtis Stone

Aaron Mc Cargo

Joanne Weir

Lidia Bastinich

Martha Stewart

Ellie Kreiger

Ming Tsai

Trisha Yearwood

Valerie Bertinelli

Patti LaBelle

Carla Hall

Michael Symon

Meredith Lawrence/The Blue Jean Chef

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cherry — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:58:00 GMT

@Ms tyrion2wrote:
I like pretty much all the TV chefs on PBS. Jacques Pepin is a particular favorite. I like Ming Tsai and the Japanese chefs on Cooking With the Chef too.

There is one I don't care for at all. The Jazzy Vegetarian. She has her overly auto tuned voice singing throughout the show and not only is it bad, it's distracting. Her recipes are not very appetizing, which is a shame. Some appetizing vegetarian recipes would be nice. I'm not at all attracted to vegan.

I can even stand to watch her commercials. When it's on, I hit the mute ,or change the channel ,and my husband feels the same way

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QVCkitty1 — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:22:09 GMT

I know a lot of people don't care for her, but I really like Rachael Ray. If you are familiar with her background, she worked hard to get where she is, and I admire that. Most of all any of her recipes that I have tried has been a success, and I can't say that about every famous chef's recipe that I have attempted. She is very clear that she is a cook, not a chef, and that's fine.

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Ms tyrion2 — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:23:42 GMT

@QVCkitty1wrote:
I know a lot of people don't care for her, but I really like Rachael Ray. If you are familiar with her background, she worked hard to get where she is, and I admire that. Most of all any of her recipes that I have tried has been a success, and I can't say that about every famous chef's recipe that I have attempted. She is very clear that she is a cook, not a chef, and that's fine.

I agree with you. I like her too.

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viva923 — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:26:10 GMT

my favorite chef is anyone who cooks for me. LOL

I watch rachael ray show every now then and some lady de laurentis.

my favorite is my husband he always has done my cooking. he cooks what i like (medically can't eat much),

I am a horrible cook, burnt offerings most of the time. I hate to cook and always have.

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qbetzforreal — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:27:40 GMT

All of the current and former PBS cooks and chefs. Ina Garten is a fave.

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LizzieInSRQ — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:40:33 GMT

I especially liked Nigella Lawson and Janie Oliver's shows ( same producers as Ina Garten I believe). Ina Garten, Gordon Ramesy's F Word show (British version), Two Fat Ladies, Good Eats's Alton Brown, Vivian Howard's show A Chef's life. Scandinavian Cooking, Two Hot Tamales, Scott Conant (meow) and Bobby Flay (and I adore his new show with Damaris Phillips).

I could go on, apparently I like more than I dislike.

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Mary Bailey — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:55:05 GMT

DS -- he's an Executive Chef, but was on tv before he had that title.

I always watch: Trisha Yearwood, Valerie Bertonelli & Pioneer Woman

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Oznell — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:05:06 GMT

What a neat thread, @cherry. Chalk another one up for Jacques Pepin-- his charm and his sweetness are irresistable.

Maybe my all-time favorite is Mary Ann Esposito. She had (or has?) a cooking show called "Ciao Italia". She seems so dear. I liked it when she went to Italy and cooked in various people's kitchens there. Italian home cooks, who have the advantage of all those wonderful ingedients there-- mmmmm.

Some TV chefs do seem full of themselves, and even if I like what they are making, I can't follow them through a whole recipe.

Oh, the Two Fat Ladies that someone mentioned were priceless too. They were more of a quirky miniseries than a cooking show-- compulsively watchable.

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cherry — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:09:34 GMT

I have a TV channel called Britbox and they have cooking shows. They have a prgram called Two Hairy Bikers , that is just as fun, well almost as fun, as the Two Fat Ladies

For those of you that love all things British, its a terrific channel ,and well worth the money

Roku has it

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Shanus — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:12:38 GMT

I’m a fan of Lidia and Ina. I have both shows set to auto record & catch up every few days.