Can you remember these celebrity chefs from classic TV?
Let's see if you have the recipe for success.
Sometimes "TV dinner" does not mean a slab of Salisbury steak in an aluminum tray. The television has taught us how to prepare dinner for decades, thanks to celebrity chefs. They make culinary techniques seem easy.
Chefs have been showing us skills on the small screen since the very beginning of the medium. Many of them have become household names, thanks to their long-running PBS shows, cookbooks and grocery brands. Let's see how well you remember these top chefs — and a couple fictional characters.
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Her 1963 show 'The French Chef' was one of the earliest cooking shows in TV history.
Image: The Everett Collection
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He may not have been a real chef, but this Muppet perhaps got kids into European cousine.
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The pioneering chef on the right hosted an NBC series called 'I Love to Eat' way back in 1946. Today, there's a restaurant award named in his honor.
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She launched herself into fame in 1986 with her "Holiday Entertaining" special.
Image: The Everett Collection
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Beginning in 1982, his cooking show proved that he 'Can Cook.'
Image: AP Photo / Jeff Chiu
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This French chef, who once worked for Howard Johnson's restaurants, became a fixture on PBS.
Image: The Everett Collection
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Art Ginsburg was better known by this nickname in his many TV segments.
Image: The Everett Collection
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Betty White played this fictional TV baker and "Happy Homemaker" on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show.'
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This Austrian became a household name in the '80s thanks to his trendy L.A. eateries and appearances on morning shows.
Image: The Everett Collection
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He popularized Cajun cuisine and had a line of grocery products.
Image: AP Photo / Will Yurman
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Friedman Erhardt popped up in commercials for years. He was best known by this name.
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Through her show '…Cooks' on PBS in the 1960s, this pioneer helped popularize Chinese food in the American home.
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Can you remember these celebrity chefs from classic TV?
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39 Comments
Missed a couple I wasn't familiar with, but oh well...
And where's Chef Brockett from Mister Rogers? I loved that character!
And where's Chef Brockett from Mister Rogers? I loved that character!
You got 10 out of 12
You breeze right through that! We bet you're an ace in the kitchen, too.
Missed #6 and #7
You breeze right through that! We bet you're an ace in the kitchen, too.
Missed #6 and #7
''You got 11 out of 12'' -------------You breezed right through that! We bet you're an ace in the kitchen, too.
7 out of 12. I remember Wok With Yan and The French Chef, and Paul Prudhomme and Chef Tell the best.