Who was the first chef to have her own TV show?

Question

There are plenty of cooks and chefs on TV nowadays and look at FOODTV...wow...who knew?

Answer 1

In the UK:

The TV cook certainly isn't a new phenomenon. The first ones
hit our screens in the 1950s - Marguerite Patten, Philip Harben and the inimitable Fanny and Johnny Cradock. It's easy to mock Fanny's evening dress, full make-up and fussy, franglais recipes, but she paved the way for the personalities and eccentrics who have since appeared on our screens.

http://features.thisislocallondon.co.uk/template/article.asp?pid=646&id=7095

Marguerite Patten, OBE (born Marguerite Brown on November 4, 1915, in Bath) is a British home economist, food writer and broadcaster. She was one of the first 'Celebrity Chefs', presenting her first television cookery programme on the BBC in 1947.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Patten


FANNY CRADOCK was the first television chef and she had a reputation that makes Gordon Ramsey look like Just William.

Fanny, who appeared from the 1950s to the 1970s, cooked up humiliation as her main dish - with her main victim, her husband, Johnnie who appeared with her.

http://www.cambs24.co.uk/searchcambs/search/story.aspx?brand=Cambs24&category=--WhatsonTheatre&itemid=WEED31%20May%202006%2010:59:02:600&tBrand=Cambs24&tCategory=search

Although there is some debate, I think it was Marguerite Patten. Julia Childs's "The French Chef" premiered in 1963.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child

Answer 2

Couldn't find the FIRST chef to have their own cooking show (most were small, local TV stations)--but here is what is said about the Queen of ALL Cooking Shows---Julia Child....

A 1962 appearance on a book review show on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) station of Boston, WGBH, led to the inception of her television cooking show after viewers enjoyed her demonstration of how to cook an omelette. The French Chef debuted February 11, 1963 on WGBH and was immediately successful. The show ran nationally for ten years and won Peabody and Emmy Awards, including the first ever Emmy award for an Educational program. Though she was not the first television cook, Child was the most widely seen and, with her cheery attitude and distinctively charming warbly voice, attracted the broadest audience.

Answer 3

Julia Childs

Answer 4

I remember a show on TV in what I think was the 1950's, The Antoinette Pope School of Cooking?

Answer 5

The first T.V. chef I ever saw was Julia Childs. Just loved her!

Answer 6

Julia Childs!!!!*<;0)

Answer 7

i do no longer comprehend pertaining to to the united kingdom shows, yet for the U. S. in case you watch the food community, Paula Dean places a pair of pound of butter in each and every thing! yet this is southern cooking. There are some shows on the FN for extra healthy dishes and the thank you to loosen up dishes. I haven't any theory if the internet internet site lists the nutritional fee of their recipes, considering the fact that there are too many pop-united stateson their internet site.

Answer 8

Julia Child maybe

Answer 9

I read somewhere Julia was the pioneer of TV Cooking Shows....

Answer 10

the first one I saw on tv was julia childs