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A cooking show, cookery show, or cooking program (also spelled cooking programme in
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) is a
television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
genre that presents
food preparation Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ing ...
, 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 A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become a celebrity. Today, chefs often become celebrities by presenting cookery advice and demonstrations, usually through the media of television and radio, or in printed publications. While television ...
, 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 model Food models (''shokuhin sampuru''), also known as fake foods or food samples are a model or replica of a food item made from plastic, wax, resin or similar material. These models are commonly used in restaurant street displays in Japan to represen ...
ing and
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, 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 Broadcast programming is the practice of organizing or ordering (scheduling) of broadcast media shows, typically radio and television, in a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or season-long schedule. Modern broadcasters use broadcast automation ...
. A number of cooking shows have run for many seasons, especially when they are sponsored by local TV stations or by
public broadcasting Public broadcasting involves radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing ...
. Many of the more popular cooking shows have had flamboyant hosts whose unique personalities have made them into celebrities.


Genres

Many cooking shows are oriented towards instructional material. Some additionally focus on showcasing the personal lives of the host, while some, such as the '' Rachael Ray Show'', blend the genre with a
talk show A talk show (or chat show in British English) is a television programming or radio programming genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler'' (2010Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Sh ...
format. There are also reality competitions within the genre (such as ''
Iron Chef is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, was a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle bui ...
'', ''
MasterChef ''MasterChef'' is a competitive cooking show television format created by Franc Roddam, which originated with the UK version in July 1990. The format was revived and updated for the BBC in February 2005 by executive producers Roddam and John ...
'' and others), where contestants are instructed to prepare meals within specific requirements under a time limit, for evaluation by a panel of judges (which can include celebrity chefs and other notable personalities). Cooking shows such as ''
Top Chef ''Top Chef'' is an American reality competition television series which premiered on Bravo on March 8, 2006. The show features chefs competing against each other in culinary challenges. The contestants are judged by a panel of professional ch ...
'' and ''
MasterChef ''MasterChef'' is a competitive cooking show television format created by Franc Roddam, which originated with the UK version in July 1990. The format was revived and updated for the BBC in February 2005 by executive producers Roddam and John ...
'' are geared towards competition. There are also reality cooking shows such as ''
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'' and ''
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives ''Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives'' (often nicknamed ''Triple D'' and stylized as ''Diners, Drive-Ins, Dives'') is an American food reality television series that premiered on April 23, 2007, on the Food Network. It is hosted by Guy Fieri. The show o ...
''. '' Chefs A' Field'' and '' Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat'' are documentary cooking shows.


History

Until the 1940s, most cooking shows were performed on the radio. The first radio cooking show in the United States, ''The Betty Crocker Cooking School of the Air'', debuted in 1924 and featured the fictional character Betty Crocker.


United Kingdom

One of the first television cooking shows, '' Cook's Night Out'', aired on the
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on 21 January 1937. Marcel Boulestin, who became famous in the English-speaking world for his cookery books on French cuisine, demonstrated the preparation of an omelet as part of the 15-minute program.


United States

In 1940, ''Sunday Evening Supper'' was produced by Edward Padula for the
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station
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. '' I Love to Eat'' was a
live television Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present. In a secondary meaning, it may refer to streaming television over the Internet when content or programming is played continuously (not on deman ...
series hosted by
James Beard James Andrews Beard (May 5, 1903 – January 23, 1985) was an American chef, cookbook author, teacher and television personality. He pioneered television cooking shows, taught at The James Beard Cooking School in New York City and Seaside, ...
that aired on NBC from 1946–47. In 1963, ''
The French Chef ''The French Chef'' is an American television cooking show created and hosted by Julia Child, produced and broadcast by WGBH, the public television station in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 11, 1963 to January 14, 1973. It was one of ...
'' was launched, and was one of the first cooking shows in the United States. It was hosted by Julia Child, author of the cookbook ''
Mastering the Art of French Cooking ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' is a two-volume French cookbook written by Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, both from France, and Julia Child, who was from the United States. The book was written for the American market and publishe ...
''. In 1973, the cooking show ''Frugal Gourmet'' was launched on KTPS-TV, and was hosted by Jeff Smith, a chef from Seattle. In 1993,
Food Network Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Networks (which holds a 69% ownership stake of the network) and Nexstar Media Group ( ...
launched as a cable channel devoted primarily to cooking shows and other programming relating to food.


Australia

'' The Chef Presents'', one of the first cooking shows in Australia, ran from 1957 until 1959 and was hosted by Willi Koeppen. '' The Jean Bowring Show'', a cooking show aimed at women, aired from 1957 to 1960.


France

In 1953, Jean d'Arcy, a French television director, was inspired by a cooking show in
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and brought the idea to France, resulting in the debut of the show ''Les Recettes de M. X'' (English: "The Recipes of Mr. X"). ''Les Recettes de M. X'', hosted by comedian Georges Adet, was the first cooking show to air in France, starting in 1953 and ending a year later. ''Art et magie de la cuisine'' (English: "Art and Magic of the Kitchen"), hosted by chef
Raymond Oliver Raymond Oliver (27 March 1909 – 5 November 1990) was a French chef and owner of Le Grand Véfour restaurant in Paris, one of France's great historical restaurants. Oliver detested '' nouvelle cuisine'', preferring the rich ingredients favored ...
, was another one of the first cooking shows to air in France, running from 1954 to 1967.


Germany

On 20 February 1953, ''Clemens Wilmenrod bittet zu Tisch'' ('"dinner is served"'), the first cooking show in then-
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, was broadcast, with television chef
Clemens Wilmenrod Clemens Wilmenrod (July 24, 1906 – April 12, 1967) was the first German television cook. His pseudonym was derived from the municipality Willmenrod in the Westerwald region, where he was born as Carl Clemens Hahn. Wilmenrod is considered th ...
presenting recipes for foods such as
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and Toast Hawaii.


Japan

In 1953, , one of the first cooking shows in Japan, was broadcast, with Hatsuko Kuroda presenting chicken salad.


New Zealand

Graham Kerr Graham Kerr (born 22 January 1934) is an English cooking personality who is best known for his television cooking show ''The Galloping Gourmet'' from December 30, 1968 to September 14, 1973. Early life Kerr was born in Brondesbury, London. H ...
was one of the first celebrity chefs to appear on New Zealand television, when the medium was introduced to the country in 1960. Kerr was later followed by
Alison Holst Dame Alison Margaret Holst (née Payne, born 1938) is a best-selling New Zealand food writer and television celebrity chef. Biography Holst was born in Dunedin, and graduated from the University of Otago, then a constituent college of the Univ ...
, Des Britten, and Hudson and Halls.


Popular culture

Sue Ann Nivens, a character played by
Betty White Betty Marion White (January 17, 1922December 31, 2021) was an American actress and comedian. A pioneer of Golden Age of Television, early television, with a television career spanning almost seven decades, White was noted for her vast work i ...
in ''
The Mary Tyler Moore Show ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' (also known simply as ''Mary Tyler Moore'') is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring actress Mary Tyler Moore. The show originally aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977. Mo ...
'', is the host of WJM's ''The Happy Homemaker'', a fictional cooking show. In the '' Family Guy'' episode "
Pilling Them Softly "Pilling Them Softly" is the first episode of the fourteenth season of the animated sitcom '' Family Guy'', and the 250th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on September 27, 2015, and is written by Hayes Davenport and directed ...
", Quagmire starts his own cooking show called "Quagmire's Kitchen".


See also

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Food reality television Food reality television is a genre of Reality television, reality television programming that considers the production, consumption and/or sociocultural impact of food. Reality food television emerged as a recognisable sub-genre in the 1940s. Hist ...


References


Further reading

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