Foodies who love to cook but are tired of the "wars" on the Food Network, give RECIPE TV a try.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

To me cooking is something to enjoy, teach family, encourage each other. AND I have found a GEM: Recipe TV. Their descriptor is: "Recipe TV Featuring the World's Greatest Chefs." Wonderful, delicious show that takes you all over the world w/world renown chefs. My favorite is The French Pub w/a very kind chef from Normandy, France featuring fresh seafood, vegetables, fresh everything. Love this channel. On Cox in SoCal it's channel 114. Baking at Ballyknocken is another one of my favs on Recipe TV.

I know a lot of people enjoy "Pati's Mexican Kitchen" on PBS. This is similar. My husband and sister (both totally different personalities) both love this show and make sure to record it.

[badhair77]

1. I just checked my Xfinity guide and it's there.

I didn’t know it existed. I watch very little Food Network because it’s full of competitions, celebrities pretending to be cooks and endless Guy Fieri. Thanks.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

6. It reminds me a bit of that stupid ass, sadistic "You're Fired" show that used to be on TV.

[Polly Hennessey]

2. I agree with you. Nothing but silly

competition and the food looks terrible. Am going to try Recipe TV.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

7. I think you'll enjoy it. Like cooking with a talented family member. nt

[Marcus IM]

3. It's a warlike, cutthroat mentality that has soaked into the pop food culture. It does not bode well. n/t

[AnotherMother4Peace]

4. I agree. Sometimes it's just darn depressing. First off, I'm ready to visit

Normandy (restaurant) and Ballyknocken (cooking school), meet the wonderful hosts, and sight see.

[calimary]

25. It's annoying as hell.

All these competition show just start getting tiresome after a very short time. Shit - does EVERYTHING have to be a competition? Can't we just learn more about cooking?

The song "Is That All There Is?" keeps wandering through my mind.

Peggy Lee -- "Is That All There Is?" 1969 - YouTube

LUVVED her, btw. A satin doll, for sure, with that satin voice.

[global1]

5. My Favorite Foodie Show Is Struggle Meals With Frankie Celenza.....

I've learned so much from him and have become confident in putting together meals without stressing ingredients or recipes.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

8. Ohhh haven't heard of it. I'll research it. Thanks.

[global1]

12. It's On A Channel Called Tastemade.....

I get it on Direct TV.

Besides Struggle Meals - there are a number of other great foodies shows on this channel.

You might also want to check if you could 'stream it'. Good Luck!!!

[badhair77]

24. I found Struggle Meals on On Demand on xfinity.

There are past episodes there that look like they’re free if you are an xfinity customer. I am for now so I’ll check them out. Thanks.

[txwhitedove]

17. The Struggle is real, and so much fun.

My favorite also. Grandma got burned out after so much macaroni while raising grandkids. Frankie made cooking fun again.

[Diamond_Dog]

9. Thank you! I'll look into it.

I am done with Food Network because of the same things others mentioned above … too many silly contests, too many “celebrity chefs”, too much Guy Fieri.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

10. Be ready to get the urge to try the recipes, visit the places, & meet the people. OR just

get calm by watching the simple act of cooking.

[MontanaMama]

15. THIS.

Guy should have kept his love for TFG a secret. That and the endless stupid food competitions have taken Food Network off of my channel list.

[usonian]

11. I miss the Japanese Iron Chefs

That series was a campy self-spoof, with fantasy rivalries, and some fantastic cooking.

Looking back, probably a cosplay cooking show, with great costumes.



I recall downloading every episode I could find, "If Memory Serves Me", via YT and software called yt-dl. It keeps getting swatted, whack-a-mole style and reappearing on github and the like.

The music was by Hans Zimmer, from the movie with the world's worst plot and the world's best music: "Backdraft"

[Marcus IM]

19. Those were the best. Loved the awkward voiceover Japanese to English translations that couldn't convey Japanese idioms.

[usonian]

20. I may be related to the translator/voice over.

I don't dare ask!

But the show was a riot. Especially the umbrage the "enemy" cooking academy showed.

Chen Kinichi would always win over the panel with comfort food.

I found the "Official Book" in a thrift store.



The "Backdraft" music was so appropriate. The cooks were always racing around like the kitchen (and entire studio) was on fire.

[Marcus IM]

21. Yes. It was really entertaining. Not too serious, but they did actually cook interesting food.

A pandemonium chef show, it was.

[Warpy]

13. I haven't had my TV on since June 2022

However, I see some of their content is on YouTube, posted by someone who posts in English and Arabic.

I dislike most chef recipes, I prefer my stuff to be fresh and simple.

[FarPoint]

14. I SOOOOOOO want them to return to actually cooking

verses always playing with food!

[Warpy]

18. All the good stuff is on YouTube

I love the Anti Chef, his early shows brought back memories of my own adventures with "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." It might have been written for a servantless woman, but gawd I could have used some help. Yes, I had flops, too, although mine were a little more edible. I had learned more of what not to do from a mother who hated to cook than he did.

We now have multi generational non cooks in the country who have kitchen bulletin boards festooned with takeout menus and think making it fancy means taking it out of the carton and putting it onto an actual plate. They need help, everything from choosing that one good knife to how to maintain it, how to hold it, and how to cut various things with it. All we get are chefs torturing food and pretentious self styled food critics complaining about minutiae. Phooey.

Even chefs doing various techniques, from knife skills to the dozen or so ways to bake a chicken would be more interesting.

And yes, this is one area where Julia jumped the shark, baking a chicken does NOT have to be that fussy, basting every 15 minutes, cooling down the oven and turning it into an unnecessarily labor intensive production. Just brine it, butter it up, and bake it with a quartered onion and a couple of ribs of celery up its butt.

[MontanaMama]

16. I just checked to see if Recipe TV is on Hulu

and it doesn't appear that it is a channel that can be streamed. Dang it! If anyone has other info, I'd appreciate it. Hating on Food Network these days...

https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/recipe-tv/1000172202/

[Old Crank]

22. Sounds interesting but

Doesn't seem to be available online.
Or I cannot figure out how to get there.

[samnsara]

23. Pluto TV has a Julia Child channel. They show her from her earliest to her last shows and I

..think of every show as a Master Class. Also shes such a hoot to watch!

[TreasonousBastard]

26. In the early days of Netflix, I got the Julia Child...

CDs and did what I could to copy them. Julia made French cooking simple.

[eppur_se_muova]

27. Trying as hard as I can, but I don't remember ever watching any cooking contest.

Food is for sharing and enjoying. Competition is the opposite of sharing.

After Chris Kimball left ATK, I noticed how much they tended to focus on meat dishes and thoroughly American comfort foods. With Milk Street, CK continues exploring cuisines of other cultures, and includes much more meat-free cooking than ATK or Cook's Country.

I love listening to Pati's charming accent, but except for her desserts, not enough there for meat shunners.

[Paper Roses]

28. Another post from this poster, good ideas.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1157134657

[AnotherMother4Peace]

29. That was an oops duplicate. Someone helped me figure out how to delete, but it already had replies.