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Good Food

The Evolution of the TV Cooking Show

Kathleen Collins is the author of Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows . The very first cooking show on TV was I Love to Eat, hosted by culinary legend James Beard. The show ran for one season on NBC. Later, Julia Child popularized the genre with The French Chef on PBS, which premiered in 1963. In the early…

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By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

Kathleen Collins is the author of Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows. The very first cooking show on TV was I Love to Eat, hosted by culinary legend James Beard. The show ran for one season on NBC.

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