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What is your favorite Cooking Show and why?

Posted by hippygourmet • 7/05/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: celebrity, chef, cookbook, cooking, Eco-friendly, food, organic, show, sustainable, travel

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Each episode we travel the world featuring eco-friendly exotic locations, highlighting organic sustainable ingredients and the great chefs who are passionate about creating delicious recipes. The series also highlights individuals and groups making a difference for a better planet.

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What cooking show inspires you?
What cooking show actually teaches you something new every time you watch it?
Do you watch cooking shows outside of Food Network?
Who are your favorite celebrity chefs and why?

Peace, Love and Organics!

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7/05/09

hippygourmet

Our greatest inspiration has always been the world famous TV cooking show legend Graham Kerr (AKA the Galloping Gourmet)!
We were so fortunate to recently film an episode with Graham, who is also on our board of advisers!

Here are a couple segments from this show -

Beet Salad - www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3V-88kinMM
Muesli - www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4JtRPQYQHM

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7/05/09

eatfoodrecipe

youtube! hehe..cant think of anything else.

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1. 7/05/09
  
  hippygourmet
  
  Who on YouTube? The Hippy Gourmet should be on top of your list!
  Spread the word about subscribing -
  
  www.youtube.com/HippyGourmet
7/05/09

celticmusicfan

I used to watch a Chinese cooking show called Wok with Yan when I was a kid. I like that part in the end where he distributes food to the audience.

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1. 7/05/09
  
  hippygourmet
  
  One of our producers used to be the director for Yan Can Cook. That was the reason why we love Graham Kerr (Galloping Gourmet) because he would invite people up from the audience to sample the recipes. Which is something we do in every episode of our show is that we eat the food we cook!
2. 7/05/09
  
  Sam1982
  
  Martin Yan is my favourite too - that guy cracks me up, especially back in the day when he had a show called "Yan can cook"
3. 7/05/09
  
  hippygourmet
  
  Yan is a talented chef with a great tv personality!
7/05/09

HollytheHousewife

You said pbs,which reminds me of justin wilson (I think that was his name) anyways he was from louisiana and I LOVED him! I wish they would run reruns of him.

On food network I love paula dean and the neelys.
We have the hook up at her resturant here,and we eat there about 2xs a month,the food is sooooooooo good,and it always tastes better when it's free,haha

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1. 7/05/09
  
  hippygourmet
  
  We used to love watching Justin Wilson, especially the way he would season everything with "ca-yannn peppah"... "oooh-whee!"
7/05/09

Shiley

Ace of cakes because I'm in to cakes

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7/05/09

celticmusicfan

OMG nice cakes. The mention of Yan gives me pleasant childhood memories. Beside's cartoons and MacGyver, that's the show worth watching.

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1. 7/05/09
  
  hippygourmet
  
  Hoping one day our fans will be able to say that about Hippy Gourmet show!
2. 7/06/09
  
  Shiley
  
  Thank you. I just learned how to make roses too. So, maybe soon I'll do a real girly cake (besides the castle).
7/05/09

celticmusicfan

Hahaha then you have to attract the kids Kids have fond memories of things that amused them.

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1. 7/05/09
  
  Sam1982
  
  I agree with that wholeheartedly - get the kids interested in cooking and interested in healthy eating. Kids love food and knowing how to prepare it themselves.
  
  We have a show here called Cool kids Cooking, where the host and his sidekick called head chef ( who is just an actor with his body under the kitchen bench so that he appears to be just a head on a silver platter ) And basically the host shows the kids how to cook but also gets them to make the meal themselves by copying him as he goes through the steps.
2. 7/05/09
  
  hippygourmet
  
  Actually, a lot of kids and young adults love our show. We get great emails from around the world from parents who say their kids turn them on to the show and now they cook the recipes together.
7/05/09

wormcarnevale

RIP frugal gourmet =(

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7/05/09

dcarroll

The Galloping Gourmet, but he hasn't been on for thirty years.

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1. 7/05/09
  
  hippygourmet
  
  Graham Kerr (AKA the Galloping Gourmet) has always been our greatest inspiration! We were very fortunate to recently film an episode with Graham, who also joined our board of advisers!
  
  You can watch a couple segments from our show with Graham Kerr -
  
  Beet Salad - www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3V-88kinMM
  Muesli - www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4JtRPQYQHM