Now you're cooking

[Barb Dwyer]

I ga-ron-tee he will be missed!

http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/News/09/06/obit.wilson.ap/

This used to be one of my favorite cooking shows - long before the advent of the Food Network brought cooking into people's homes 24/7.

I loved this guy's accent and his down-home self-deprecating humor. He always reminded me of a Norm Crosby for the Cajun set. His torture of everyday words was so endearing though!

Does anyone remember him? Do you watch any cooking shows?

 

[Demian]

I empathize with your morsticality...

I didn't hear he died...He's like the painter Bob Ross...I'm drinking the last of my Rosemont Shiraz...Here's to those great guys

 

[Desert Amazon]

 

[SimplySouthern]

I love cooking shows. I can never find anything I actually want to reproduce for my family....but I love to watch other people cook.

The one and only cooking show that I have ever learned anything from is a local show here. It's out of the next largest town which isn't saying much) and is filmed in this woman's kitchen at home. It's called "Cooking With Mama". The host of the show is "mama" a large black woman who reminds me of someone you just want to love. She cooks no nonsense down home food. Real food that you don't have to search a special section of the grocery storeto find the ingrediants for. Last week she made this baked/fried chicken meal (Don't ask...it was both) with a honey mustard sauce with a side of baked macaroni and cheese and taught "me" how to fix green beans from a can that don't taste like the can. I was transfixed. I've tried the whole thing out here at home and, wonder of wonders, it all turns out just right.

The best part of the show is that each week she has one member of her family to "help" her in her show. As far as I can tell, this person is there for embarassment purposes. She sepnds most of the show talking about this person, the mischeif they got into growing up and the "sorry messes" they've gotten themselves into over the years.

She cracks me up. I thank God I'm not a member of that family.

 

[Barb Dwyer]

SS- that show sounds like a hoot! I like a comedic touch-makes it seem more genuine.

I find myself intrigued with those shows that take a famous chef and send them to an unsuspecting individual's home to prepare dinner from whatever happens to be in their fridge and pantry at that moment. Talk about a challenge.

I can see it now-the chef having an apoplectic fit as he peers into my fridge and sees nothing but steak, cheese, a special edition millennium bottle of champagne and limp veggies. And a year old package of Pillsbury crescent rolls and a partially opened bowl of healthy margarine. They'd have to move it to Fox and rename it "When Good Chefs Get attacked by Refrigerator Mold!"

 

[batter]

that is sad

i have seen him on television quite a few times. i used to enjoy his cooking shows and his wit and sense of humor (not to mention his accent). he was a good story teller and humorist.

i am sure all his fans will miss him dearly.
ga-ron-teed.