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Cooking is the process of preparing food by applying heat. Cooks select and combine ingredients using a wide range of tools and methods. In the process, the flavor, texture, appearance, and chemical properties of the ingredients can change. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the...
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Oliver's Twist

Oliver's Twist is a television series featuring chef Jamie Oliver. Following the popularity of his first TV series, The Naked Chef, he began producing Oliver's Twist to be aired outside the UK. The show became a success, being aired in over 70...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2002

Number of episodes:

  • 52

Ready Steady Cook

Ready Steady Cook is a BBC daytime TV cooking programme first aired on 24 October 1994. The programme was hosted by Fern Britton from 1994 until 2000 when celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott became the new host. The present duration of the programme is...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1994

Original episode running time:

  • 45 min (27 hs )

Good Eats

Good Eats is a Peabody Award-winning television cooking show created and hosted by Alton Brown that airs in North America on Food Network. Likened to television science educators Mr. Wizard and Bill Nye, Brown explores the science and technique...

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  • Jul 7, 1999

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 197

Barefoot Contessa

Barefoot Contessa is a cooking show on Food Network hosted by Ina Garten, which premiered on November 30, 2002. Each episode features Garten assembling dishes of varying complexity, and she often gives the viewer tips on decorating and entertaining....

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  • Nov 30, 2002

Emeril Live

Emeril Live is a program on Fine Living hosted by Emeril Lagasse. It formerly aired on Food Network. Emeril Live features many of the same elements as Emeril's other program, Essence of Emeril, and often has a Creole theme. The program is taped in...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 1997

Air date of final episode:

  • 2007

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

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...

The French Chef

The French Chef is an influential television cooking show created by Julia Child, and produced and broadcast by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 11, 1963 to 1973. It was one of the first cooking shows on television. The French Chef...

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  • Feb 11, 1963

Air date of final episode:

  • 1973

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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. The focus of the show is simple cooking, as the show's title suggests, and is...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1993

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Escape to River Cottage

Escape to River Cottage was the first River Cottage television series in which celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall takes over a Dorset cottage and sets out to achieve a form of rural self-sufficiency. Along the way, Hugh encountered many...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Mar 18, 1999

Air date of final episode:

  • Apr 22, 1999

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 6

Return to River Cottage

Return to River Cottage is the second series of the Channel 4 programme that follows Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall during his second year of living in the country at River Cottage, Dorset after leaving the city behind In this series, Hugh turns his...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jan 14, 2000

Air date of final episode:

  • Feb 18, 2000

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 6

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,...

Air date of first episode:

  • Nov 17, 2001

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

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...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jan 2005

Original episode running time:

  • 46 min (28 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 6

Number of episodes:

  • 92

Yan Can Cook

Yan Can Cook was a Chinese cooking show starring Martin Yan that featured recipes for stirfrys and other traditional Chinese dishes. Its catch phrase was "If Yan can cook, so can you!", often followed by the gag "If Yan can't, then neither can you."...

Kitchen Confidential

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is a New York Times bestselling non-fiction book written by American chef Anthony Bourdain. The book, released in 2000, is both Bourdain's professional memoir and a behind-the-scenes look...

Inside Dish

Inside Dish, hosted by Rachael Ray is a hybrid cooking/talk show on the Food Network. In each episode Ray chats with a celebrity as they cook or eat at a restaurant. Inside Dish is the third of Ray's four shows on Food Network, and premiered on...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2004

Air date of final episode:

  • May 13, 2005

Number of seasons:

  • 1

Number of episodes:

  • 19

YUMee

YUMee is a cookery show for children on Ireland's Den TV, presented by chef Aoileann Garavaglia.

Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen is an American reality-television cooking competition (based on a series of the same name, broadcast in the UK) broadcast on FOX. It is hosted by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. The program debuted on May 30, 2005, and has run every...

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Air date of first episode:

  • May 30, 2005

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 4

Number of episodes:

  • 46

The Next Food Network Star

The Next Food Network Star is a reality television series produced by and aired on the Food Network in the United States that awards the winner his or her own series on the Food Network. The first season of The Next Food Network Star series was...

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  • Jun 5, 2005

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 4

Number of episodes:

  • 35

Two Fat Ladies

Two Fat Ladies is a British television cooking programme starring Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson. It originally ran for four seasons, from 1996 to 1999 on BBC Two. The show also appeared on the Food Network in the USA, and on the...

Air date of first episode:

  • Oct 9, 1996

Air date of final episode:

  • Dec 22, 1998

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 24

Dinner and a Movie

Dinner and a Movie is a cooking and entertainment television program produced in the U.S. by TBS since 1995. Each episode includes a movie and the preparation of a creative dinner to go with some theme of the movie, generally via a pun. For example,...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1996

Martha

Martha, also known as The Martha Stewart Show, is a syndicated American daytime television talk show hosted by Martha Stewart. It began airing in September 2005. Each episode includes several segments related to cooking, interior design, gardening,...

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  • Sep 11, 2005

Makuha Ka sa Tikim

'Makuha Ka Sa Tikim' (Be Taken With The Taste) is a cooking-reality tv program of ABS-CBN in partnership with Knorr, a cooking product of Unilever Philippines. It began on September 10, 2005 with Eula, Jean and Eugene Domingo but has now ceased....

Original episode running time:

  • 35 min (21 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 50

Hippy Gourmet

The Hippy Gourmet TV Show is a United States Public Television Series that airs nationally on public television and public cable stations. The show is based in the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco, but travels the world highlighting organic,...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2000

The F-Word

The F Word (also called Gordon Ramsay's 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...

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  • Oct 27, 2005

Original episode running time:

  • 44 min (26 hs )

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. Two chefs (one of whom could not cook and one of whom would not...

Air date of first episode:

  • Nov 20, 1995

Air date of final episode:

  • Jul 7, 2000

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 685

Dotch Cooking Show

The Dotch Cooking Show (どっちの料理ショー, Dotchi no Ryōri Shō) (April 17, 1997 - March 17, 2005) was a Japanese cooking show produced by the Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation and known for its use of highest quality and most expensive food ingredients...

Air date of first episode:

  • Apr 17, 1997

Air date of final episode:

  • Mar 17, 2005

Essence of Emeril

Essence of Emeril (1994-96, 2000-Present) 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...

Air date of first episode:

  • Nov 16, 1994

America's Test Kitchen

America's Test Kitchen is a half-hour cooking show on PBS (reruns airing on Create, formerly PBS YOU) in the United States, also airing in Canada. The show's host is Cook's Illustrated editor-in-chief Christopher Kimball; the show and the magazine...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jan 2000

Air date of final episode:

  • Jan 2008

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Number of seasons:

  • 8

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...

Air date of first episode:

  • Mar 8, 2006

Air date of final episode:

  • Apr 2009

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

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. The show premiered...

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

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 (b. July 16, 1962) and Steve McDonagh (b. June 14, 1964). Smith and McDonagh launched the show after winning the network's reality contest, The Next...

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

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...

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Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Masterchef

Masterchef is a BBC television cookery game show. It ran initially from 1990 to 2001, and was revived in a different format as Masterchef Goes Large from 2005 onwards. The "Goes Large" part of the name was dropped in 2008 but the format remains...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1990

Air date of final episode:

  • 2001

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Celebrity Cooking Showdown

Celebrity Cooking Showdown was a program that aired on NBC from April 17-19 and April 22, 2006. It was hosted by Alan Thicke. The competition was divided into three "preliminary rounds", where each celebrity was paired with a famous chef. The three...

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  • Apr 17, 2006

Air date of final episode:

  • Apr 21, 2006

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 1

Number of episodes:

  • 4

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...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 2006

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Saturday Kitchen

Saturday Kitchen is a 90 minute cookery programme broadcast 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...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jan 2002

Original episode running time:

  • 90 min (54 hs )

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. The show is made by Prospect Pictures, who...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jun 11, 2006

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

Too Many Cooks

Too Many Cooks was a cookery competition on ITV which turns the idea of cookery shows on its head – the people cook for the chefs. It's a chance for great home cooks to prove themselves to the professionals, or be put in their place if their cooking...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 2004

Air date of final episode:

  • 2005

Original episode running time:

  • 45 min (27 hs )

Saturday Cooks!

...Cooks! is an ITV cookery show, hosted by Antony Worrall Thompson. There are different names for the show, depending on which day it is aired. The Saturday morning show is called Saturday Cooks!, and the show which airs during the week is called...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jun 10, 2006

Number of episodes:

  • 167

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 Saturdays at...

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  • Jun 25, 2006

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 3

Number of episodes:

  • 32

Come Dine With Me

Come Dine With Me is a Channel 4 television programme shown in the United Kingdom, first broadcast in January 2005. The show has five (sometimes four) amateur chefs competing against each other hosting a dinner party for the other contestants. Each...

Air date of first episode:

  • Jan 2005

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

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. At the beginning of each show, Flay receives –...

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Cooking For Kids with Luis

Cooking For Kids with Luis is a television cooking series for pre-schoolers, which was broadcast on Nick Jr. Australia (formerly on Nickelodeon Australia) in 2004. In this television series, Luis (age 6 or birthday change) prepares, cooks and shares...

East Meets West

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...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 1998

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Sugar Rush

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...

Aaken ja Sakun kesäkeittiö

Aaken ja Sakun kesäkeittiö is a 1999 Finnish cookery television series that was shown on Sundays during the summer of 1999. It first aired on June 20, 1999 on MTV3 and lasted one season. The series was written and directed by Ari Lohenoja, presented...

Chefography

Chefography is a television series biography of Food Network personalities. While the name implies that the program features biographies of chefs, it in fact includes both chef and non-chef Food Network personalities. The series airs on Food Network...

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

Eggs 'n' Baker

Eggs 'n' Baker was a Saturday morning Children's BBC music and cookery show presented by ex-Bucks Fizz singer Cheryl Baker. It was often shown in the early morning slot before the magazine show, Going Live. During this time Cheryl was still a member...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1988

Air date of final episode:

  • 1993

New Scandinavian Cooking

New Scandinavian Cooking is a cooking show currently hosted by Claus Meyer. The show was previously hosted by Andreas Viestad and Tina Nordström. Beginning in 2003, the show debuted on PBS in the United States. It is also aired in about 60 other...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2003

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. Various chefs demonstrated recipes whilst other experts featured discussing organic produce, wines,...

Byronbaychef.com.au

Byron Bay Chef is a comedy/cooking show based in the Australian coastal town of Byron Bay and produced by Gary Johnston and Julian Phillip under the aegis of Allscape Productions.

Hell's Kitchen episodes

This article contains contestant information and episode summaries from Season 1 of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen. Season 1 aired starting on May 30, 2005 and concluded on August 1, 2005. The show was taped in Los...

Hell's Kitchen episodes

This article contains contestant information and episode summaries from Season 2 of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen. Cast during November 2005, the second season aired starting on June 12, 2006 and concluded on...

Quick Fix Meals

Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller is an American television program on the Food Network hosted by Robin Miller. Robin Miller who is a food writer and nutritionist, offers recipes and techniques specifically healthy meals, to fit a busy lifestyle,...

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Dinner: Impossible

Dinner: Impossible is an American television program broadcast by the Food Network. The first episode aired on January 24, 2007. Food Network recently began advertising the show's seventh season, to begin on August 12, 2009. Each episode, the host...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2007

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Food and Drink

Food and Drink was a long-running British television series on BBC Two between 1982 and 2000. It was the first national television programme in the UK to cover the subject of food and drink without cookery and recipe demonstrations. Created in 1982...

Soapstar Superchef

Soapstar Superchef is a cooking show on the ITV Network, where soap stars from Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks (and Hollyoaks: In the City) and Neighbours compete to be crowned "kings" or "queens" of the kitchen. Their culinary...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Mar 19, 2007

Air date of final episode:

  • Apr 13, 2007

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook

The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook (renamed The Hairy Bikers Ride Again for the third series and The Hairy Bakers for the fourth series) is a BBC television cookery and travel program, that has so far run for four series and a Christmas special. It is...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 2004

Khana Khazana

Khana Khazana is a cookery show hosted by Indian celebrity chef, Sanjeev Kapoor. The show is primarily based upon Indian cuisine and has gained substantial popularity with the South Asian population since 1993. As a result, Chef Kapoor's career and...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 1993

Ysabella

Ysabella was a Filipino Television romantic soap opera starring Judy Ann Santos with Ryan Agoncillo and Derek Ramsay.. The story revolves around a young cook named Ysabella Cuenca. At an early age, Ysay develops an inclination for cooking, and...

Air date of first episode:

  • Jun 25, 2007

Air date of final episode:

  • Jan 18, 2008
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