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Skriven 2008-02-02 23:10:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av CAROL SHENKENBERGER
Ärende: Re: Extra Sweets
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 > Graham Kerr
 > "Take Kerr".
 > "The Galloping gourmet"

 CS> I remember him from ages ago!  Havent stumbled across any of his shows
 CS> yet but then I rarely get to see Food TV before 8pm.

I did some checking; he's not on Food TV. There might be re-runs of old
shows elsewhere though....

From wikipedia:

Born in London, regards himself as a Scot, but grew up in England
where his parents were established hoteliers. As a result, much of
his childhood was spent amongst some of the most outstanding chefs
of Europe.

Trainee manager, Roebuck Hotel in East Sussex, England aged just
fifteen.

After five years in the British Army as catering adviser, Graham
became General Manager of England's Royal Ascot Hotel.

He moved to New Zealand, in 1958, becoming chief chef catering
adviser for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. It was there that his
media career began in the early 1960s: his recipes were delivered on
radio and in magazines, and a related book, Entertaining with Kerr,
sold out its first edition in eight days. He moved into television
with the emergence of the new medium in New Zealand, after being
recruited by NZBC producer Shirley Maddock.

Later, "The Galloping Gourmet", a show named for his onscreen
persona, was taped in Ottawa, Canada at CJOH-TV for the CBC He
became a worldwide sensation, wrote a plethora of cookbooks, and
earned two Emmy nominations. The show ended in 1971 after a car
accident that left Graham temporarily paralyzed.

Kerr returned to television in 1974 with a daily, syndicated
five-minute series, Take Kerr (pronounced "care"), which featured a
particular recipe for each show. This program only lasted one
season, and was controversial for a time, due to an inclusion of a
passage from the Bible in the closing credits, since Kerr became a
Christian following his accident. This series was later repeated on
CNN during its first year or so on the air.

After his wife Treena's heart attack in 1986, Kerr was prompted to
create a new style of cooking that he dubbed "Minimax". This new
method of food preparation minimised ("Mini-") fat and cholesterol,
while it maximised ("-max") aroma, color, texture, and taste.
Minimax led to two successful cookbooks: Graham Kerr's Smart Cooking
and Graham Kerr's Minimax Cookbook along with corresponding series
in syndication, on the Discovery Channel and Public Television. In
1995, he appeared in a PBS special with Julia Child called Cooking
in Concert: Julia Child & Graham Kerr.



Cheers

YK Jim


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