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They used to have a mexican food show with Rick Bayless. He's definetely my favorite.

Rick Bayless of course! I can't believe you left him off the list.

How could you forget the incomparable Mark Bittman?

I agree, Rick Bayless and Mark Bittman both really do have great shows! See--TV I'm enthusiastic about getting home to watch!

It won't let me answer the survey so let me say I voted for good old Jaque but also noticed that Bayless and Bittman were missing

If Yan can cook it, so can you!

Got hooked on Jacques with his Fast Food My Way series, and am now obsessive about not missing his techniques show they seem to be re-running (looks about as dated as the 1974 copy of "La Technique" I got for my b-day).

The Everyday Food people are SO bland and generic, I can't stand it.

Andries Vierstadt and the blonde girl that took over from him on that Scandinavian cooking series. I loved them both! They were really interesting to watch and wicked good cooks to boot.

Mark Bittman's shows are fun to watch because he knows all the good chefs. I could do without his version of the recipes though.

Rick Bayless is the Mexican cuisine version of Mario Batali. He is so passionate and knowledgeable about the food and culture and extremely articulate. Just a pleasure to watch.

If anyone can catch The Kitchen of Light I would recommend that as well. Different seasons are hosted by different cooks but they all showcase the cuisine of Scandinavia, mostly Norway. Beautiful, natural products, clean presentations, beautiful scenery.

Jacques Pepin for the classics. It's like free culinary school. I know I'm preaching but you've got to learn the classics first! Classic recipes, formulas, techniques, etc. After that, it's just plugging in ingredients because you'll understand why the will work. When I was a kid I always wondered if it would be possible to be able to cook something without looking at a recipe. If all you know is Rachel Ray or Paula Deen, etc. you'll never be able to cook on your own because they are not teaching you to cook, they're giving you a list of step by step instructions to copy, not understand.

We don't get Jacques Pepin, Rick Bayless, or Mark Bittman. BOOOO!

I do love Ming Tsai. It is the show I make sure to watch every Saturday morning.

And the crazy, horrible local cooking show if fun to watch, if just to laugh. I have yet to see a recipe coming out of that show that I would make, but they sure are Minnesotan.

Ok, the tribe has spoken: I've added Bittman and Bayless. Vote on!

Kassie, I'm interestd to hear more about your local cooking show. Is that on PBS too? I think Colomenco Cooks is our local cooking show here in NYC, or is he national? Anyone know?

Love Jacques Pepin, he has a killer potato salad and apple tart tatin recipe.

the team of America's Test Kitchen! thank god they go through dozens of ingredients to pick out the best, so that i dont have to...saves me a lot of time and money!

hmmm, I'm logged in, and can comment, but apparently I can't answer the survey. I'm not sure what's going on. I'm running firefox 2.0.0.11 under kubuntu. Anyway, Jacques Pepin is a close second behind Julia for me.

I can't answer the survey, either, but I adore Jacques Pepin. I learn more useful stuff about real, practical cooking from him in 2 minutes than in several hours watching nearly anyone else.

Jacques Pepin has always been a favourite of mine.

I can't even find proof of it on the local pbs website. Weird. Basically I think they only do it during fundraisers on the second station, not the main one.

There is a guy who knows how to cook fairly well and a women who either really doesn't know what she is doing, or she pretends. They bring suburban mom's and grandma's on and make comfort food and family recipes. There was a dessert that's main ingredients were white cake mix and canned peaches. Yuck.

Justin Wilson--though it was before I was old enough to cook, so his food might not be as cool as his personality!

Bittman is absolutely fantastic. Both his NY Times column as well as How to Cook Everything, and the current PBS show whose name escapes me.

http://www.howtocookeverything.tv

Have to give Jacques Pepin the edge over Christopher Kimball and company...

On public television in Ontario, TVO, we get a lot of the brit shows (actually, it is often much better than PBS), and I have to say that Delia Smith's How To Cook series was really, really good.

You know, I know who Bayless and Bittman are, but I've never seen their shows. That's bizarre.

There's a 'campfire' cooking show that's all cast iron, open-fire recipes that low-budget, low-production, and down right awesome. it's just a husband and wife team cooking good food. i'm a fan of that.

america's test kitchen, martin and ming are also on my tivo.

Rick Bayless is the best!

The geek in me favors Chris Kimball. I no longer have cable and miss Alton Brown terribly, but America's Test Kitchen fills the void for scientific experimentation and gadget talk.

My local PBS station only carries a few of these cooking shows. No Bayless or Bittman for me. Damn them & their locally-made programming! [shakes fist]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Thank GOD for Chris and his America's Test Kitchen crew. My boyfriend adores them, and it's the only reason I don't subsist on lunch meat alone.

I don't know if it's just on in New England, but Ciao Italia with Maryanne Esposito is the show that made me want to start cooking. My dad and I used to watch it on Saturday mornings when I was a kid.

On the entertainment side, I always loved Martin Yan's "Yan can cook, so can you!"

Of course, I also love Jacques Pepin for his understated grace and soothing French accent.