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Top Chef (franchise)
''Top Chef'' is a competitive cooking show television format that originated with the American TV show ''Top Chef'', which premiered in March 2006. Licensing of the format is handled by NBCUniversal Television Distribution NBCUniversal Syndication Studios (a.k.a. NUSS), formerly known as NBCUniversal Television Distribution (a.k.a. NUTD), Universal Domestic Television, Studios USA Television Distribution and MCA TV, is the television syndication division of NBCUnive .... International adaptations Current, previous and upcoming versions of ''Top Chef'' include: References {{Top Chef Top Chef Cooking competitions Reality television series franchises ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooking Show
A cooking show, cookery show, or cooking program (also spelled cooking programme in British English) is a television genre that presents food preparation, often in a restaurant kitchen or on a studio set, or at the host's personal home. Typically the show's host, often a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of an episode, taking the viewing audience through the food's inspiration, preparation, and stages of cooking. Due to time and production constraints, most, if not all, cooking shows employ filming shortcuts such as video editing, food modeling and photography, and prepared ingredients to speed up the cooking process and ensure a smooth and seamless production. Cooking shows have been a popular staple of daytime TV programming since the earliest days of television. They are generally very inexpensive to produce, making them an economically easy way for a TV station to fill a half-hour (or sometimes 60-minute) time slot. A number of cooking shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julián Elfenbein
Julián Eduardo Elfenbein Kaufmann (born in Santiago, Chile on July 24, 1972) is a Chilean journalist, radio broadcaster and television presenter. Career Julián Elfenbein studied journalism at the ''Universidad Diego Portales'' and upon graduation, had a long career in television programs most notably at Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN), most notably with the entertainment program ''Pase lo que Pase'', as comedian in ''Ponce Candidato'' and in ''Noche de Juegos''. In 2008, he became a co-presenter with Karen Doggenweiler on the reality show ''Tocando las estrellas'' (meaning No matter what happens) on Chile's Channel 13. After a break from TV for medical treatment, he returned to sign a deal with Chilevisión (CHV), with successful programs like ''Primer Plano'', '' Allá tú'', ''Fiebre de baile'' (Dance Fever), ''El Poder del 10'' and ''Talento Chileno'' (Chilean Talent). In 2010, Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) announced that he would return to the network as host of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Lignac
Cyril Lignac (born 5 November 1977 in Rodez, Aveyron) is a French chef. He is owner and chef of the gourmet restaurant ''Le Quinzième'' (1 Michelin star), also of ''Le Chardenoux'', a Parisian bistro located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, another bistro located in the Saint-Germain des Près district: ''Aux Prés'' and two pastry shops ''La Pâtisserie Cyril Lignac'' located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris and in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Since 2010, his workshop ''Cuisine Attitude'' located in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, had provided cooking and pastry classes. Chef Lignac is also TV presenter for culinary programs on the French television channel M6, and signed a series of more than 40 cook books which sold over 3 million copies. Biography Apprenticeship After an apprenticeship in his native region of Aveyron in South Western France, Cyril Lignac made his way to Paris in 2000 to work in the kitchen of ''L'Arpège'', the restaurant of Chef Alain P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Piège
Jean-François Piège (born 25 September 1970) is a French chef, two stars at the Guide Michelin. Training and career In 1991, he started working as a chef assistant for ten months at the Palais de l'Élysée during his military service. He worked notably with Bernard Vaussion, sous-chef at that time. After having worked with famous other chefs for several years (Bruno Cirino, Yves Camdeborde, Christian Constant, Alain Ducasse), he became the chef of the restaurant '' Les Ambassadeurs'' at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, not hesitating on mixing the codes of the palace with popular cuisine. In 2009, he started a new project and created with his colleague Thierry Costes a place with a unique personality in Paris. The domain of Thoumieux is declined in different places : the ''Brasserie Thoumieux'' (2009), the restaurant ''Jean-François Piège'' (2010) and the ''Hôtel Thoumieux'' (2011). In February 2011, Jean-François Piège received directly two Michelin stars for his re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Sarran
Michel Sarran, born on 18 April 1961, in Nogaro, in Gers (France), is a chef from Toulouse whose restaurant, which bears his name, has been awarded two Michelin stars. He has been one of the jurors of the '':fr:Top Chef, Top Chef'' programme on M6 (TV channel), M6 from 2015 to 2021. Biography Youth and training Michel Sarran comes from Saint-Martin-d'Armagnac which sometimes leads to confusion as to his place of birth. After Patrick (who became a furniture designer) and Gilles, Michel is the third child of Bernard Sarran, a farmer, and Pierrette Sarran, who in her youth trained at a hotel school. He grew up on the family farm in Saint-Martin d'Armagnac. As a young man, he developed a passion for music. He also helped his uncle, who was a veterinarian, and it convinced him that he would like to become a doctor. After graduating from high school, he moved to Toulouse and started medical studies without much conviction. After failing twice to pass the second year, he passed vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Darroze
Hélène Darroze (born 23 February 1967) is a French chef. She has 6 Michelin stars and three restaurants, Hélène Darroze at The Connaught in London with 3 stars, Marsan par Hélène Darroze in Paris with 2 stars and Hélène Darroze à Villa La Coste in Provence with 1 star. Career In 1990, after graduating from university, Darroze began working for Alain Ducasse in the office of the Le Louis XV restaurant in Monaco, where she was convinced to enter the kitchen by Ducasse. It was her first time working anywhere other than her family restaurant and she later said that she was working in the office about half the time. After working for Ducasse for three years, she returned to her family's restaurant and kept its existing Michelin star. After the restaurant suffered financial difficulties and closed in 1999, she opened Restaurant Hélène Darroze in Rue d'Assas, Paris and won her first Michelin star in 2001, picking up a second in 2003. The second star was lost in the 2010 versio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Etchebest
Philippe Etchebest (; born 2 December 1966) is a French chef. He was awarded two Michelin stars at the Hostellerie de Plaisance in Saint-Émilion, France. He appears on French television in ''Top Chef'', ''Objectif Top Chef'' and ''Cauchemar en cuisine'', the French-language version of Gordon Ramsay's '' Kitchen Nightmares''. Career Etchebest's father owned a restaurant in Bordeaux and his family lived above the restaurant. In his youth, he played rugby for the Bègles-Bordeaux rugby club and practised judo. At the age of fifteen, he chose to pursue a career in catering over professional rugby. Etchebest trained at the Talence Bordeaux culinary school. By the age of 22 he was second chef de cuisine at the Paris restaurant Clos Longchamps, and moved on to Jardins de l'Opéra in Toulouse in 1992. He subsequently became head chef at Chateau Grand Barrail, where he stayed for five years and where, in 2000, he was named Meilleur Ouvrier de France. He moved to Château des Reynat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Pairet
Paul Pairet (born 29 June 1964) is a French chef. He is the founder-partner and chef de cuisine of restaurants Mr & Mrs Bund, Ultraviolet, and cafe 'Polux'', all located in Shanghai, China. His cuisine is often described as avant-garde. Biography Pairet was born in Perpignan and studied at a hotel school in Toulouse after a scientific study background. A chef/instructor who demonstrated diffusion and biochemical reactions in cooking impressed him as a student, and he decided to become a chef. Restaurants Pairet was first noticed by the press while helming Café Mosaic in Paris in 1998. Over the next 15 years, he also worked in Istanbul, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Jakarta. In 2005, he settled in Shanghai to open Jade on 36, an avant-garde restaurant in the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel until he left in 2008. In April 2009, he opened Mr & Mrs Bund in thBund 18building, where has been lauded for his witty takes on bistro classics. The restaurant was ranked the 7th best in Asia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Viel
Glenn Viel is a French chef. He was awarded 3 Michelin stars at the restaurant ''l'Oustau de Baumanière''.''.'' Restaurants Glenn Viel is the chef of L'Oustau de Baumanière in Les Baux-de-Provence Les Baux-de-Provence (; oc, label= Provençal, Lei Bauç de Provença), commonly called Baux, is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southern France. It is located in the Alpilles mountains ... since March 2015. He was awarded 3 Michelin stars in 2020 at age 39, and became the youngest French chef to receive 3 stars Appearance and activities Viel appears in the documentary A Chef's Voyage (2020). Viel is a jury member in season 13 of Top Chef France. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Viel, Glenn Living people 1980 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sub (TV Channel)
MTV Sub (formerly TVTV!, Subtv and Sub) is a Finnish TV channel owned by MTV Oy. The previous owner Alma Media sold Sub and its sister channels (MTV3, C More Max, MTV Ava Radio Nova and Sävelradio) to Swedish Bonnier and Proventus in 2005. Programs and audience Sub is an entertainment channel directed at teens and young adults. Programs are mostly imported and of U.S. origin. Sub also shows reruns of popular and cult TV shows. Recently, the share of domestic programming has grown remarkably. The channel's highest viewership of all time was attracted in 2009, when the finale of '' Big Brother 2009'' was aired. Programming Subteksti Subteksti was Sub's teletext A British Ceefax football index page from October 2009, showing the three-digit page numbers for a variety of football news stories Teletext, or broadcast teletext, is a standard for displaying text and rudimentary graphics on suitably equipp ... service. It contained music news, TV schedules and interac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
