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I miss the Frugal Gourmet and the other great cooking shows of yesteryear. No silly competitions, no reality tv drama, no douchey 40-something trying to recapture his teen years with expressions like "That's out of bounds flavor!" (i.e. Guy Fieri). Just good cooking with some history thrown in.
TypicalJAFO 4 months ago
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guirlandes3 3 months ago
@TypicalJAFO How true: cooking shows nowadays are advertisements for gourmet restaurants and high end food products. The point of those admittedly entertaining competitions is not to enlighten or teach, but to show off the skills of professional chefs. Unlike Jeff Smith, who actually gave us, freely, the benefit of his knowledge and skills, such pragmatism is anathema to today's TV uber-chef, whose culinary inventions would require a six figure bank account to prepare regularly.
guirlandes3 3 months ago 2
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@TypicalJAFO Yes, I agree, and like everyone here, miss the Frugal Gourmet. His recipes were usually simple, easy to prepare, exceptionally tasty, and perhaps most significant -- especially nowadays -- inexpensive. For Smith, who enriched the layman's experience of cooking , thanks to his informed and informative dialogue, frugal never meant cheap, but smart, efficient, and effective
guirlandes3 3 months ago
Second only to....Good Eats? ;-)
crocopie 4 months ago
I also got a huge kick out of this show when I was little. Everything about it had a rather whimsical quality, from the opening theme to Jeff's mannerisms.
Nineteen80s29 4 months ago
This show brings back good memories.
GrapeLola 5 months ago
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GrapeLola 5 months ago
I love him so much ,my dad and I would be parked in front of the tv every sat. to watch cooking shows ,his was my dad's fav and mine too. The Food network has nothing on PBS!!!!
HARLOWETV 5 months ago
Many thanks for posting these videos, I really liked the PBS shows, but don't remember exactly when I watched them. Things came apart for Jeff in '97, he passed away several years ago. very sad ending, his shows were so upbeat.
delarochej 6 months ago
@delarochej Couldn't have said it better!
HARLOWETV 5 months ago
@delarochej I couldn't have said it better!
HARLOWETV 5 months ago
Cooking, history, and a little viticulture too. Way smarter than any cooking show on TV today. Such a talented guy.
mmoaot 8 months ago 4
"one of these days, you and I are gonna have a sausage festival" - Thank you for the smile, Jeff. You're missed.
sevenbates 9 months ago 9
The Chicago-based eps are vastly superior to the latter ones taped in Seattle.
1983-90 are absolute classics
1991-94 is where he jumped the shark
Can't comment on the 1995-6 "Keeps the Feast" episodes (the one that aired on an obscure cable channel) as I never saw it.
dft432 9 months ago
Ugh. Too. Much. Pork.
acrovader 10 months ago
@acrovader No. Such. Thing. As. Too. Much. Pork.
GrigoriSom 9 months ago
one day we are gonna have a sausage festival
whambola 10 months ago
6:38-6:44 - Ouch, LOL... poor Jeff!
Ian16545 1 year ago
about 31 juniper berries! lol
dmbfan07cb 1 year ago