Ken Kostick (1 June 1953 – 21 April 2011)
CBC News. Retrieved 23 April 2011. was a Canadian chef and television and radio personality,
best known for co-hosting the television series ''
What's for Dinner?'' with
Mary Jo Eustace
Mary Josephine "Mary Jo" Eustace (born May 1, 1962) is a Canadian actress, singer-songwriter, comedian, model, author, and sous-chef best known as co-host of the Canadian cooking TV series '' What's for Dinner?''.
Early life
Eustace was born and ...
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Early life
Kostick was born in
Winnipeg
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on 1 June 1953 and was raised in the
North End, Winnipeg
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area. He also attended
St. John's High School.
Broadcasting career
He cohosted the
Life Network
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series ''What's for Dinner?'' with Eustace in the 1990s and early 2000s. The show was noted particularly for Kostick and Eustace's comedic banter, focusing in part on whether or not Kostick and Eustice were a couple, as well as Kostick's public ambiguity at the time about whether or not he was
gay
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.
He also wrote several bestselling
cookbook
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Cookbooks may be general, or may specialize in a particular cuisine or category of food.
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s and put out an
eponymous
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line of cooking products.
[
Kostick and Eustace debuted on Toronto's new ]LGBT
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-focused radio station Proud FM in 2007 as cohosts of the morning show. Eustace left the show in June 2008, following which Kostick continued to host alone until leaving the station in December of that year. The duo then reunited for the new W Network
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W Network was established in ...
series '' He Said, She Said with Ken and Mary Jo''.
Death
On 21 April 2011, Kostick died in Toronto of complications of pancreatitis
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References
1953 births
2011 deaths
Canadian radio hosts
Canadian television chefs
Canadian cookbook writers
Deaths from pancreatitis
Canadian LGBT entertainers
Canadian gay writers
Writers from Winnipeg
Canadian LGBT broadcasters
Canadian male chefs
20th-century Canadian LGBT people
21st-century Canadian LGBT people
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