Today I saw some of a pbs (I think) cooking show where a male chef was making a pasta dish he was going to serve in a bread bowl lined with swiss cheese. I could not find any information on this particular cooking show on my pbs channel. Can anyone help me out with the name of the show and/or chef so I can look up the recipe? Thanks!
Could very well be PBS, as they show a lot of cooking shows on Saturday during the day. I’d check their web site, as they usually post recipes and such from these types of shows. Did they guy have any kind of accent? Anything else you tell about him will help.
I always try to watch PBS cooking shows during the late morning/early afternoon on saturdays—I may be able to help with a bit more info on any specific details that you can recall…
I have wanted to start a thread on cooking shows for a while, to find out what some of the other Dopers thoughts are on the most informative or most enjoyable shows.
I record America’s Test Kitchen religiously, and Jacques Pepin “Fast Food My Way” the other non-ethnic male cooks that might have been dealing with pasta cheese and bread are Mark Bettman, but I don’t know the name of his show, and I don’t think he actually cooks, he just visits others who cook.
Was he in a kitchen set. or being filmed in a “real” place?
Thanks for your responses. The male chef was in the 30ish (maybe older) age range with dark hair. It was set in a kitchen and he was cooking something in a pan (probably vegetables) to which he added penne pasta which had wine added to the water it was cooked in. He also spoke of adding a some vinegar for acidity. He talked about being in Naples Italy and an old woman chef told him she always cooked her pasta in wine. The pasta was poured into a bread bowl lined with swiss cheese. The chef talked about how the broth and cheese would meld into the bread and how delicious the dish would be. He was also preparing lentils and wild rice in a pan. I believe it was for a ratatouille dish. He had such a different, interesting approach to cooking than most shows I’ve seen. I feel like I must have dreamed it. I will email my local pbs station.
I don’t know the answer to this one, but I have an idea about a question from the zombie thread that led to this…the vegetarian chef, who used asafoetida in everything, might have been Kurma Dasa, host of Cooking with Kurma (http://www.kurma.net/).