Who was the 'Galloping Gourmet'?
"friends. Kerr's new series for Fremantle, ""The Galloping Gourmet"" (1969–71), named for his onscreen persona, was taped in Ottawa at CJOH-TV and produced by his wife Treena Kerr. The origin of his Galloping Gourmet persona stemmed from a 1967 book he co-authored with wine expert Len Evans, titled ""The Galloping Gourmets"". The nickname was the result of a 35-day worldwide trek to the finest restaurants around the globe. The show was filmed in front of a live audience. The title was echoed in the opening of each episode, where Kerr entered the stage area by running in and leaping over"
"but, despite the publisher's name, the books were hardcover. Graham Kerr Graham Kerr (born 22 January 1934) is an English cooking personality who is best known for his 1969–1971 television cooking show ""The Galloping Gourmet"". Kerr was born in London, and his parents were established hoteliers. As a result, much of his childhood was spent among European chefs. He was educated at the independent school Brighton College and Rudolf Steiner at Kidbrooke Park in Sussex. Kerr became trainee manager at the Roebuck Hotel in East Sussex, England, when he was just 15 years old. After five years in the British"
"Graham Kerr Graham Kerr (born 22 January 1934) is an English cooking personality who is best known for his 1969–1971 television cooking show ""The Galloping Gourmet"". Kerr was born in London, and his parents were established hoteliers. As a result, much of his childhood was spent among European chefs. He was educated at the independent school Brighton College and Rudolf Steiner at Kidbrooke Park in Sussex. Kerr became trainee manager at the Roebuck Hotel in East Sussex, England, when he was just 15 years old. After five years in the British Army as catering adviser, he became general manager of"
"to enjoy whatever dish he had just prepared. Another recurring feature at the end of each show would be a close-up of Kerr as he sampled the dish he had just cooked. To ""oohs and ahs"" from the audience, he would pull a face as though he was in ecstasy from tasting his latest creation. ""The Galloping Gourmet"" was a huge hit, and earned two Emmy Award nominations. During its run, Kerr became a worldwide sensation and wrote an abundance of cookbooks. However, he was pilloried by many of the elite of the food world of the time, including influential"
"Gourmet Garage Gourmet Garage is a privately held mini-chain of specialty/natural food markets headquartered in New York City with six locations in Manhattan. The enterprise began as Flying Foods, a specialty food distributor, and transitioned into retail in 1992. Flying Foods was launched in 1981 by college roommates, Andy Arons and Walter Martin, and Paul Moriates, whom Martin met during a brief tenure working at Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Their mission was to import fresh foods that were not available in the United States at the time and sell them to chefs at high end restaurants in New York City, and"
"in Cape Town. Jenny Morris (chef) Jenny Morris, also known as ""The Giggling Gourmet"", is a celebrity chef and radio personality from South Africa. Having run a cooking school since 1997, and appearing on television and radio in South Africa, she has signed to appear on the Food Network, becoming the first South African to host her own show on the channel. Morris opened ""Cook's Playground"" in 1997, operating it as a cooking school and catering company. She has written three cookbooks, """"Rude Food, Nude Food, Good Food"""" in 2004, """"More Rude Food"""" in 2006 and """"Cooking with Jenny Morris"""""
"Barbara Halloran Gibbons Barbara Halloran Gibbons (1934 - March 26, 2014) was an American cookbook author and columnist. Known as ""the Slim Gourmet,"" her syndicated column of the same name was widely distributed in the 1970s, and popularized her ideas on diet cooking. A number of her columns were humorous developments of her theory that ""ingredients have no calories."" Gibbons lived in New Jersey, California and Texas. Gibbons was best known in the 1970s due to her syndicated ""The Slim Gourmet"" cooking column and the publication of many of her cookbooks on diet-focused cooking. Her publishing history continued into the"
"Jenny Morris (chef) Jenny Morris, also known as ""The Giggling Gourmet"", is a celebrity chef and radio personality from South Africa. Having run a cooking school since 1997, and appearing on television and radio in South Africa, she has signed to appear on the Food Network, becoming the first South African to host her own show on the channel. Morris opened ""Cook's Playground"" in 1997, operating it as a cooking school and catering company. She has written three cookbooks, """"Rude Food, Nude Food, Good Food"""" in 2004, """"More Rude Food"""" in 2006 and """"Cooking with Jenny Morris"""" in 2012, as"
"Curnonsky Maurice Edmond Sailland (October 12, 1872, Angers, France – July 22, 1956, Paris), better known by his pen-name Curnonsky (nicknamed 'Cur'), and dubbed the Prince of Gastronomy, was the most celebrated writer on gastronomy in France in the 20th century. He wrote or ghost-wrote over 65 books and enormous numbers of newspaper columns. He is often considered the inventor of gastronomic motor-tourism as popularized by Michelin, though he himself could not drive. He was a student of Henri-Paul Pellaprat. The name ""Curnonsky"" comes from the Latin ""cur"" + ""non"" ""why not?"" plus the Russian suffix ""-sky"", as all things"
"Amateur Gourmet The Amateur Gourmet, or Adam Roberts, is an American food and humor blogger who resides in Los Angeles, California. Roberts, born in 1979, started the blog while a frustrated law student in Atlanta in 2004, and it was initially popularized after Roberts appeared on CNN with cupcakes resembling Janet Jackson's breast after the Super Bowl XXXVIII ""wardrobe malfunction"" incident. Roberts moved to New York in 2005, and published a book based on his blog in 2007. The blog depends largely on Roberts' own public persona—the ""Boston Globe"" describes him as ""skinny and nebbishy, with a nasally musical theater"
"which Gibbons says have no calories: Barbara Halloran Gibbons Barbara Halloran Gibbons (1934 - March 26, 2014) was an American cookbook author and columnist. Known as ""the Slim Gourmet,"" her syndicated column of the same name was widely distributed in the 1970s, and popularized her ideas on diet cooking. A number of her columns were humorous developments of her theory that ""ingredients have no calories."" Gibbons lived in New Jersey, California and Texas. Gibbons was best known in the 1970s due to her syndicated ""The Slim Gourmet"" cooking column and the publication of many of her cookbooks on diet-focused cooking."
"""gourmandise"" was one of the Seven Deadly Sins. The term ""gourmet"" can refer to a person with refined or discriminating taste who is knowledgeable in the craft and art of food and food preparation. ""Gourmand"" carries additional connotations of one who enjoys food in great quantities. An ""epicure"" is similar to a gourmet, but the word may sometimes carry overtones of excessive refinement. A ""gourmet chef"" is a chef of particularly high caliber of cooking talent and skill What is considered gourmet is different depending on the time and geographic region. What is gourmet historically depended upon what ingredients the"
"Denis Cotter Denis Cotter is an Irish celebrity chef, author, television personality and proprietor of the acclaimed vegetarian ""Café Paradiso"" restaurant in Cork City. He has published three cookbooks – ""Cafe Paradiso Cookbook"", ""Paradiso Seasons"" and ""wild garlic, gooseberries...and me"", and his fourth book was due to be published in 2011 by Harper Collins. He has featured on the RTÉ One television series ""Guerrilla Gourmet"". Cotter is described as a ""vegetarian icon"" and ""hero to non-meat eaters"", beginning his career as a banker before quitting to form his own restaurant business. His meals include goat's cheese gnocchi with pan-fried artichokes."
"both stated that they were fans of ""The Galloping Gourmet"" as children. Kerr married Treena Van Doorne, an English actress, on 22 September 1955. They first met when they were both 11 years old. They had three children together: Tessa (born 1956), Andrew (born 1960), and Kareena (born 1968). Kerr has lived in Mount Vernon, Washington, for several years. Treena Kerr died on 17 September 2015, five days before what would have been their 60th wedding anniversary. In addition, seven volumes of ""Television Cookbooks"", featuring recipes from ""The Galloping Gourmet"" series, were published from 1969 to 1971 by Fremantle International,"
"Gourmand A gourmand is a person who takes great pleasure and interest in consuming good food and drink. A gourmand has also been defined as a person who is ""a glutton for food and drink"", a person who eats and drinks excessively. The word has different connotations from the similar word gourmet, which emphasises an individual with a ""refined"" discerning palate, but in practice the two terms are closely linked, as both imply the enjoyment of good food. An alternative and older usage of the word is to describe a person given to excess in the consumption of food and"
"Jerome Snyder Jerome Snyder (1916 - May 2, 1976) was an American illustrator and graphic designer. He is best known as the first art director of the magazine ""Sports Illustrated"" and as the co-author of the popular New York City restaurant guidebook ""The Underground Gourmet"" written with Milton Glaser. Snyder was the art director for several significant magazines: serving from 1954 as the first art director of ""Sports Illustrated"" he introduced contemporary illustration to editorial matter in an arena previously the domain of photography. He then spent ten years with ""Scientific American"". Snyder was born in 1916 in New York"
"Ghetto Gourmet The Ghetto Gourmet was an underground dining experience in the United States, in which diners paid between $40 and $100 and are served a table d'hôte meal prepared by a professional chef at a non-restaurant location. Local restaurant chefs cook on their days off. Douglas Adesko at ""Time"" magazine wrote: ""Jeremy Townsend, the original Ghetto Gourmet, came up with the idea when his brother, a line cook, wanted to try some dishes. They started in their house in Oakland, California. Two years and one visit from a health inspector later, Townsend took his idea mobile, trying out chefs"
"in a 2006 exhibition on Jewish foodways at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Mildred Grosberg Bellin Mildred Grosberg Bellin (September 7, 1908 – February 15, 2008) was an American cookbook author. She is most noted for her influential cookbooks ""Modern Jewish Meals"" and ""The Jewish Cookbook"", which brought modern nutritional ideas into Jewish cooking. Mildred Grosberg was born and raised in Schenectady, New York. Her father was Joseph E. Grosberg, a grocery industry pioneer and one of the founders of what later became the Price Chopper grocery chain. She attended Smith College, from which she graduated"
"Pike. In 1816, the poet Joanny Carmouche, a member of the Epicurean Society of Lyon brought together gourmets with verse: Stendhal, passing through Lyon in 1837, evoked Lyonnaise cuisine: The Lyonnaise mothers become so famous that the gourmet Maurice Edmond Sailland, usually known as Curnonsky, who had spent several weeks each winter in Lyon declared in 1934 from the ""Vettard"" restaurant that Lyon was the ""capital of gastronomy"". The statement came during the golden era of Lyonnaise cuisine, involving people with feathers and gastronomes and the idea spread and soon became one of the components of the image that Lyon"
"Gourmet (magazine) Gourmet magazine was a monthly publication of Condé Nast and the first U.S. magazine devoted to food and wine. Founded by Earle R. MacAusland (1890–1980), Gourmet, first published in January 1941, also covered ""good living"" on a wider scale. On October 5, 2009 Condé Nast announced that ""Gourmet"" would cease monthly publication by the end of 2009, due to a decline in advertising sales and shifting food interests among the readership. Editor Ruth Reichl, in the middle of a tour promoting the ""Gourmet Today"" cookbook, confirmed that the magazine's November 2009 issue, distributed in mid-October, was the magazine's"
"in other cities. 'My ultimate dream is to tour the country like a rock band, except with dinner parties,' he says."" In addition to ""Time"", The Ghetto Gourmet has been featured in the ""San Francisco Chronicle"", ""The Wall Street Journal"", the ""Los Angeles Times"", and ""Marketplace"". Ghetto Gourmet The Ghetto Gourmet was an underground dining experience in the United States, in which diners paid between $40 and $100 and are served a table d'hôte meal prepared by a professional chef at a non-restaurant location. Local restaurant chefs cook on their days off. Douglas Adesko at ""Time"" magazine wrote: ""Jeremy Townsend,"
"Louis was fictionalized by America's storyteller Louis L'Amour in his novel ""The Proving Trail."" www.hoteldeparismuseum.org (bio by: Kevin Kuharic) Adolphe Gérard Adolphe Gérard (1844–1900) was a French chef. Adolphe François Gerard was born in Alençon, France in 1844. He was enrolled in a seminary in Sées, France at the age of 15, but left at age 20 for Paris, where he apprenticed as a chef in a hotel. He then moved to London and worked with a newspaper on its reviews and translations (he was fluent in English, German and Latin). Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York City and"
"Catholic Church update said list to refer to ""gloutonnerie"" rather than ""gourmandise."" Gourmand A gourmand is a person who takes great pleasure and interest in consuming good food and drink. A gourmand has also been defined as a person who is ""a glutton for food and drink"", a person who eats and drinks excessively. The word has different connotations from the similar word gourmet, which emphasises an individual with a ""refined"" discerning palate, but in practice the two terms are closely linked, as both imply the enjoyment of good food. An alternative and older usage of the word is to"
"Mildred Grosberg Bellin Mildred Grosberg Bellin (September 7, 1908 – February 15, 2008) was an American cookbook author. She is most noted for her influential cookbooks ""Modern Jewish Meals"" and ""The Jewish Cookbook"", which brought modern nutritional ideas into Jewish cooking. Mildred Grosberg was born and raised in Schenectady, New York. Her father was Joseph E. Grosberg, a grocery industry pioneer and one of the founders of what later became the Price Chopper grocery chain. She attended Smith College, from which she graduated in 1928 and where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation she directed meal-planning clubs"
"John Martin Taylor John Martin Taylor, also known as Hoppin' John, is an American food writer and culinary historian, best known for his expertise on the cooking of the American South, and, in particular, the foods of the lowcountry, the coastal plain of South Carolina and Georgia. ""The New York Times"" referred to him as ""the lowcountry food maven"" in a 2006 travel article about Charleston’s culinary scene. He is often credited with restoring many traditional southern dishes, and he advocated the return to stone-ground, whole-grain, heirloom grits and cornmeal production. ""Gourmet"" magazine said of Taylor in a March 2006"
"Le Cercle des Gourmettes Le Cercle des Gourmettes was an exclusive club or ""circle"" of women in Paris devoted to gourmet food. The circle was started in 1929 by an American, Paulette Edlinger, and the name may have been a bon mot in protest of the non-feminine form of the word ""gourmet"". The club began at a time of economic prosperity just prior to the Great Depression in France. It was started by the wives of members of Club des Cent and convened on alternate Fridays to enjoy lunches and dinners at the electric company headquarters in Paris, Electricité et"
"The populace grows very angry, mystifying the team. They finally recall the aliens' cannibal tradition and produce him alive. The Galactic Gourmet The Galactic Gourmet is a 1996 science fiction book by Northern Irish author James White, part of the Sector General series. Todd Richmond wrote that the Sector General series declined after ""Star Healer"" (1985), hitting a low point with ""The Galactic Gourmet"", and that the later books tended to stretch a short story's worth of content to the length of a novel. However he thought that ""Mind Changer"" (1998) represented an improvement. Other fans appreciate this novel as"
"Kate Heyhoe Katherine Evelyn Heyhoe (born April 9, 1955) is an American editor and food writer. She is the author of numerous gourmet cookbooks. Heyhoe has been a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) since 1994, when she co-founded the electronic Gourmet Guide, one of the first websites dedicated to food and cooking. In 1995 she developed food sites for America Online and in 1996 launched The Global Gourmet website which merged into the Global Gourmet in 1998. She is currently Executive Editor of The Global Gourmet and writes a monthly food column about culinary topics. Heyhoe"
"The Galactic Gourmet The Galactic Gourmet is a 1996 science fiction book by Northern Irish author James White, part of the Sector General series. Todd Richmond wrote that the Sector General series declined after ""Star Healer"" (1985), hitting a low point with ""The Galactic Gourmet"", and that the later books tended to stretch a short story's worth of content to the length of a novel. However he thought that ""Mind Changer"" (1998) represented an improvement. Other fans appreciate this novel as a high point in White's use of alien point-of-view to provide insight into social interactions and the resolution of"
"Gil Marks Gilbert Stanley Marks (May 30, 1952 – December 5, 2014) was an American food writer and historian who published five cookbooks on the subject of Jewish food, and was the founding editor of ""Kosher Gourmet"" magazine. He moved to Israel and became a citizen in 2012 and died of lung cancer on December 5, 2014 at the hospice at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Marks was born in 1952 in Charleston, West Virginia. After graduating from high school at Talmudical Academy of Baltimore, Marks studied at Yeshiva University, and graduated with an M.A. in Jewish History, M.S.W. in Social"
"Inspector Gourmet Inspector Gourmet (; literally ""Gluttonous Detective"") is a 2016 Hong Kong television comedy and fictional detective drama produced by Leung Choi-yuen for TVB, starring Kenneth Ma, Louis Yuen, Eliza Sam, Priscilla Wong, Elvina Kong, Oscar Leung and Jacqueline Wong as the main cast. It premiered on Hong Kong's TVB Jade and Malaysia's Astro On Demand on August 29, 2016 airing Monday through Sunday during its 9:30-10:30 pm timeslot and concluding September 19, 2016 with a total of 20 episodes. ""Inspector Gourmet"" centers on solving mysteries with a food theme. The title of the drama is in reference to"
"Inspector Gourmet Inspector Gourmet (; literally ""Gluttonous Detective"") is a 2016 Hong Kong television comedy and fictional detective drama produced by Leung Choi-yuen for TVB, starring Kenneth Ma, Louis Yuen, Eliza Sam, Priscilla Wong, Elvina Kong, Oscar Leung and Jacqueline Wong as the main cast. It premiered on Hong Kong's TVB Jade and Malaysia's Astro On Demand on August 29, 2016 airing Monday through Sunday during its 9:30-10:30 pm timeslot and concluding September 19, 2016 with a total of 20 episodes. ""Inspector Gourmet"" centers on solving mysteries with a food theme. The title of the drama is in reference to"
"or food and wine production regions for leisure. ""Foodie"" is often used by the media as a conversational synonym for ""gourmet"", although it is a different concept (that of a food aficionado). The word ""foodie"" was coined synchronously by Gael Greene in the magazine ""New York"" and by Paul Levy and Ann Barr, co-authors of ""The Official Foodie Handbook"" (1984). Gourmet Gourmet (, ) is a cultural ideal associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine, which is characterized by refined, even elaborate preparations and presentations of aesthetically balanced meals of several contrasting, often quite"