Classic Cooking Show TV Network

[michele cindy]

Cable/TV Executives, I think it would be great to put together a "Classic Food TV" network featuring old cooking shows. You could have Julia Child, Keith Floyd, Graham Kerr, plus others going back a min. of 20 years. Kind of like Nick At Night does classic TV. Just curious if anyone else here would watch something like that. I know I would love it!

[buttertart]

Absolutely. Theonie Marks' Greek Island Cooking. The Madeleine Kamman shows (those were incredibly instructive). Joyce Chen's Chinese Cooking. Fu Pei-Mei would be nice too (could be subtitled). The Romagnolis' Kitchen. I wonder if the reason they're not shown (other than that network executives think no one would be interested) is that tapes don't survive?

[michele cindy]

Probably a lot of rights and clearance issues. I think it could be problematic too for me, I would have any time for True Blood, or anything else I watch.

[John E.]

I would add the old "Great Chefs..." series from Discovery Channel to the list.

[paulj]

There is still a Great Chefs website.
http://www.greatchefs.com/

[pine time]

Count me in, too, for the Classics. Hey, if Time Life can do 100 oldie songs, why not some really great cooking shows.

[iluvcookies]

I would watch it... until the "classic" shows become re-runs of Chopped and Paulla's Party.

[paulj]

Have you bought any of their DVDs or checked your library for them?

[Manassas64]

I'm in!

[araknd]

+1 for the concept. I always enjoyed watching those shows. Graham Kerr was an inspiration to me to get into cooking and good food preparation.