Chefs and Hosts
Learn recipes and more from all the beloved PBS chefs behind your favorite PBS cooking and food shows.
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Julia Child
Since her first cooking program aired on public television in 1963, Julia Child has inspired millions of amateur cooks and many professional chefs with her well-honed skills, easy kitchen spirit, and passion for learning.
Read more about Julia and their shows:
About Julia Dishing With Julia Child Baking with Julia In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs Julia Child: Cooking with Master Chefs The French Chef with Julia Child
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Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart is an Emmy winning television show host, entrepreneur, and bestselling author. Martha Bakes returns to PBS in April 2016.Read more about Martha and their shows:
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Pati Jinich
Savor the sights, sounds and flavors of the U.S.-Mexico border alongside acclaimed chef and James Beard Award-winning host Pati JinichRead more about Pati and their shows:
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Marcus Samuelsson
Marcus Samuelsson is the host of No Passport Required on PBS and an accomplished chef.Read more about Marcus and their shows:
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Mary Berry
With sixty years cooking experience, Mary Berry is considered to be the doyenne of baking. Mary learned the art of baking from her mother before training at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu in Paris at the age of just 17.
Read more about Mary and their shows:
About Mary Mary Berry's Ultimate Christmas Mary Berry's Highland Christmas
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Alice Currah
Alice Currah is the publisher of popular food blog, SavorySweetLife.com, and one of the food bloggers for PBS Parent's Kitchen Explorers. Her approachable everyday recipes are accompanied by beautiful step by step photos and have been featured online at Martha Stewart, Real Simple, The Pioneer Woman, Epicurious, Bon Appetit, Saveur, iVillage and many more. In March 2010, Forbes.com featured Alice as one of Eight of the Very Best Food Bloggers.
Read more about Alice and their shows:
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Aviva Goldfarb
Aviva Goldfarb is author and founder of The Six O'Clock Scramble®, a seasonal online weekly menu planner and cookbook author (St. Martin's Press, 2006).
Read more about Aviva and their shows:
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Annie Copps
Annie B. Copps is senior editor, food, of Yankee Magazine. Annie oversees the magazine's food coverage, both as an editor and as a contributor of feature stories and columns.
Read more about Annie and their shows:
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Chris Fennimore
As WQED Multimedia Pittsburghs director of programming and host of QED Cooks, Chris Fennimore wears many hats (and occasionally an apron) at the station.
Read more about Chris and their shows:
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Lidia Bastianich
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is an Emmy award-winning public television host, best‐selling cookbook author, successful restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Most importantly, she has accomplished all of this by marrying her two passions in life—her family and food—to create multiple culinary endeavors alongside her two children, Joseph and Tanya.
Read more about Lidia and their shows:
About Lidia The Great American Recipe 25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee
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Ming Tsai
Ming's passion for food was forged in his early years working in his family's restaurant, and although he earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Yale, he never strayed far from the kitchen.
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Marc Matsumoto
Marc Matsumoto is one half of the Fresh Tastes food blog team.
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Jenna Weber
Jenna Weber was a blogger for thee Fresh Tastes blog. She graduated from Le Cordon Bleu in 2008 and, since then, has worked as a pastry chef, bread baker and freelance food editor.
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Leslie Sbrocco
An award-winning author, speaker, wine consultant, television host, and founder of the new multi-media company, Thirsty Girl, Leslie Sbrocco's entertaining approach makes exploring wine, travel, and food fun.
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Kent Geist
Kent Geist was 19 years old when he walked into WVIZ/PBS for the first time. And for the past 40 years, Kent has been a passionate advocate for public television and radio and the people that it serves. Between attending college and serving in the U.S. Army Reserve for six years, Kent became a WVIZ/PBS camera operator, floor manager and technical producer. As his skill and experience broadened, Kent was promoted to crew chief, producer and director of special projects. Five of the programs Kent produced during this time were nominated for regional Emmys, and two of the programs took the statuette home.
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Peg Neeson
Peg Neeson is a familiar face to anyone who has seen the WVIZ/PBS on-air membership campaigns. And for WVIZ/PBS Cooks! fans, she's the yin to Kent Geist's yang, seated at a table in the studio, gobbling up delectable dishes prepared by the region's best chefs and cooks that is, as long as they're not too spicy don't have any mushrooms in them and oh, let's not even talk about scallops!
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