Food and Wine Programs

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated

Kitchen experts offers cooking tips, techniques, product evaluations and advice. The team teaches and entertains while determining the absolute best methods for preparing delicious and easy-to-follow recipes. Host: Chris Kimball.

Burt Wolf: What We Eat

Burt travels through the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Asia and the US to uncover how the migrations of people, plants and animals that started 1492-1502 continues to impact the culture, economics and the diet of the world today.

Check, Please! Bay Area

Every week, Check, Please! Bay Area features three guests who are local diners, not professional restaurant critics. Each guest chooses their favorite restaurant and the other two guests visit that restaurant under total anonymity — the restaurants are not notified that Check, Please! "reviewers" are dining there. After trying each other's restaurant recommendations, the guests come on the show to discuss, dispute, and celebrate their dining experiences. The panel of diners is moderated by host Leslie Sbrocco, an award-winning author, wine connoisseur, newspaper columnist, and speaker. At the end of the show, each restaurant is rated based on the panelists' comments.

ChefClass

This series takes viewers inside one of the country's most prestigious cooking schools, The International Culinary Schools at the Art Institutes, which number around 30 across the country. In each episode, the school's top chef-instructors focus on teaching a critical cooking technique such as roasting, grilling, braising and sauteing through the demonstration of mouth-watering recipes.

Ciao Italia

Mary Ann Esposito, host of the longest-running cooking show on public television, travels around the United States and Rome, Italy in search of recipes that can be prepared in thirty-minutes or less for a busy audience that has time to enjoy great Italian food but doesn' t always have time to prepare it "the old way."

Everyday Food

This series brings to life the magazine of the same name, featuring an ensemble cast of the magazine's food editors, test cooks and recipe developers. For an audience of consumers who are short on time and in need of healthy, everyday cooking solutions, the series offers quick, nutritious and delicious recipes using easy-to-find supermarket ingredients. Hosts are Allison "Allie" Lewis, Sarah Carey, John Barricelli, Margot Olshan and Lucinda Scala Quinn.

In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs

Inviting master chefs (literally) into her kitchen, Julia Child cooks with the pros, detailing their techniques and dishes for the home cook.

Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way

Designed to appeal to accomplished chefs and amateurs alike. With his signature charm, Pepin presents quick, easy and delicious recipes for today's busy lifestyle. Each episode features tasty, organically grown food that is both healthy and convenient to prepare. Jacques teaches viewers the best of everyday cooking, with dishes that translate from simple dinners to menus for entertaining.

Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way

The culinary icon returns with a new line-up of healthy, home-cooked meals. This season, Jacques creates nearly 100 delicious recipes for every occasion -- from a light snack to an elegant dinner -- using readily available fresh foods, supermarket staples and simple techniques. Taking inspiration from around the world, his lamb stew, paella and Tibetan bread incorporate Asian, Latin American and diverse European influences, including his classic French background. Each episode contains four or more dishes, including minute-long recipes for croque monsieur tidbits, an instant red-pepper dip or butter bean canapes, along with Jacques' valuable tips and techniques.

Jacques Pépin:The Complete Pépin

Jacques Pepin, one of the world's most renowned chefs, returns to public television with The Complete Pepin, a new twist on his 1997 hit series, Jacques Pepin's Cooking Techniques. These thirteen half-hour episodes include his time-tested, classic teachings with brand new opens and closes from the culinary legend. To paraphrase Jacques Pepin, once you acquire essential cooking skills, your culinary repertoire is limited only by your imagination. Throughout the series, your viewers will learn the basics of everything from choosing and maintaining essential cooking equipment, to easy and fun ways to embellish your dishes. Both the novice and professional are sure to appreciate the solid lessons of the series, as well as the boundless passion and enthusiasm of the charismatic Jacques Pepin.

Joanne Weir's Cooking Class

Joanne's actual home kitchen becomes the classroom as she works side-by-side with a real-world student for a hands-on cooking lesson, preparing a wide variety of Weir's latest Mediterranean-inspired recipes, using the freshest and most seasonal ingredients available. As she shares her special cooking techniques, tips and tricks, and culinary fundamentals, Joanne guides students and viewers through solutions to their real-life cooking dilemmas - over-whipped egg whites, gummy risotto, and broken emulsions. Also: expert wine tips from sommelier Eugenio Jardim.

Lidia's Family Table

Lidia Bastianich offers delicious master recipes for everyday Italian-style feasting and imaginative ideas for variations and improvisations. From comfort food to haute cuisine, Lidia fuses recipes from both past and present into creative Mediterranean dishes, making them uniquely her own. To Lidia, the simplicity of a family cooking together is one of the most rewarding aspects of life. Her mother Erminia, children Tanya and Joe, and grandchildren help prepare some of Lidia's favorite and most personal recipes yet.

Made In Spain

A series exploring the culinary and cultural riches of Spain. Hosted by chef Jose Andres, it highlights the extraordinary cooking traditions of a country whose food and wine is capturing the worlds' imagination. In every episode, Andres brings the exciting flavors of his native Spain to the American audience with easy and informative recipes created in his Washington, DC, kitchen using products found here in the U.S. Each cooking segment is woven into a gastronomic and cultural tour of one of Spain's 17 vibrant regions, where Andres introduces the viewer to many of Spain s greatest artisan cheese makers, wine makers and restaurateurs.

Martin Yan's China

A fascinating trek through the sights, sounds and tastes of China as Martin travels through this vast country to explore the 4 schools of Chinese cuisine: the Mongol-inspired flavors of the North, the Cantonese seafood of the South, the fiery Szechuan meals of the West and the delicious Shanghai specialties of the East. He journeys to upscale restaurants, ancient streets, marketplaces, factories and nature preserves, as well as historic destinations in this captivating land, discovering the secrets and attractions of one of the world's oldest countries.

Martin Yan's Chinatowns

A culinary kaleidoscope bringing the sights, sounds and flavors of Chinatowns around the world into viewers' homes. Martin visits private homes and exotic markets, then demonstrates the finer points of preparing his favorite Chinese foods.

Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen

Steven Raichlen, creator of the popular public television series, Barbecue University and author of the award-winning, best-selling Barbecue Bible and How to Grill is back with a sizzling new show designed to help viewers take their grilling to the next level: PRIMAL GRILL WITH STEVEN RAICHLEN. The series features new recipes like Coffee-crusted chicken, Chinese five-spice beef ribs and a grill-top ginger mint lobster roast, sizzling new grills, from state-of-the-art infrared rotisseries to ceramic kamado cookers, wood-burning grills, industrial-strength smokers, and a stunning new location, The Tubac Golf Resort and Spa in Tubac, Arizona.

Simply Ming

Ironically, Americans tend to complicate their lives in an effort to simplify them. In this series, chef Ming Tsai helps make the yearning for a more manageable lifestyle a reality. Tsai, experienced in classical French, new American and Pan-Asian cuisine, provides a repertoire of very simple recipes which viewers can integrate into numerous dishes. Each of his flavor-packed sauces, salsas, pastes, rubs, stocks, syrups and doughs consists of fewer than seven ingredients, and each requires no more than 20 minutes to prepare.