Now it is nearly impossible to turn on the television and not see a cooking show. However, that wasn't always the case, as ...

While people like Julia Child, Philip Harben, and Joyce Chen first laid the groundwork for televised cooking shows in the 1950s and '60s, it wouldn't take off as its own full-fledged genre until the ...

Cooking shows have been around as long as television itself, but the cooking competition subgenre — think Top Chef and Great British Bake-Off — is a relatively new phenomenon. Like so many things we ...

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