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The Best Gourmet Cooking Show for Home Gourmet Cooks

There are times when even the most accomplished home gourmet chef can use ideas and inspiration in the kitchen. For experts and novices, there are several television programs that offer original recipes, unique cooking styles and ideas that every chef can appreciate.

Thanks to the long list of gourmet cooking shows on The Food Network, many new chefs are introduced to viewers. These are cooking shows that also teach much needed skills that are required in the competitive field of gourmet cooking and they can help make home cooked gourmet meals an even greater success.

Here is a list of some of the best shows for home gourmet cook.

Chocolate with Jacques Torres
What would a home-cooked gourmet dinner be without a delicious, delectable dessert as the finale? Gourmet dessert recipes with up-close pictures and views of the finished product can help anyone prepare a beautiful desert that also taste great.

The French Chef
Julia Child (August 15,1912 – August 13, 2004), who is the author of ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’, was the host of ‘The French Chef’ from 1963 until 1973. Episodes of the show can be seen on PBS and on some cooking channels. Viewers can learn how to create delicious French cuisine in their own kitchen.

The Frugal Gourmet
This popular show first aired in 1973 on local public television. Starting in 1983, The Frugal Gourmet was eventually shown nationally on PBS for fourteen years. Jeffery L. Smith (January 22, 1939 – July 7, 2004) wrote more than a dozen best selling cookbooks that has shown millions of people how to improve their cooking skills at home and ind in restaurant business.

The Galloping Gourmet
Seven cookbooks have been published that include the recipes from this popular cooking show. Gordon Kerr from London was the host of the ‘The Galloping Gourmet’ and reruns can be soon on PBS.

Good Eats
This is not considered a gourmet cooking show by definition, but host Alton Brown give cooking lessons that are akin to 30 minutes with a food professor. He describe why and how to cook meat, vegetable and desserts that come out perfect every time, for him at least. Good Eats can be seen on the Food Network.

Great Chefs
This include a series of shows including; Great Chefs of New Orleans, Great Chefs of San Francisco,Great Chefs of Hawaii, Great Chefs of the West and many more. First shown exclusively on PBS, the shows are now broadcast by Disney – on their franchises.

The list above has some of the best and most informative gourmet cooking shows on TV. Each of the the shows listed can help the home gourmet cook improve their skills and impress their dinner guests with perfectly prepared, delicious gourmet dishes.

Reference;

* en.WikiPedia.org/wiki/Cooking_ show