MY favorite cooking show person ever...

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...is Keith Floyd. "Floyd on Food" was one of his
shows and though I haven't found the music yet,
the intro to his "Floyd on Fish" show was the best
theme music for a TV show EVER. The shows I saw
always seemed to involve him going on a working
ship (like a tugboat) and cooking up a gourmet meal
for the crew.
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This episode has him in what I believe is a Royal
Navy's setup for a disaster area ("actually, this is
quite funny, cooking in a square pot").
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He was ALWAYS unabashedly shit-faced ("right --
enough of all of that -- a quick swig of what made
the Royal Navy famous... before the ratbags took it
away from them").
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Search for almost anything involving Keith Floyd --
my money's on it will be extremely entertaining and
MAYBE educational/informative.
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I chose THIS episode clip thinking that it could be a
recipe for the poisonously-tentacled jellyfish. It isn't,
but it gives you a good taste (sorry) of what his
shows are like. He had a number of different shows
on BBC and subsequently here on PBS. He reminds me
quite a bit of The Galloping Gourmet back before he
became a pathetic shadow of his former self -- this
boringly health-conscious teetotaling grandmotherly type.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4dqIrCSCyo&NR=1
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and his Cajun recipes? Chopping piles of "oignons", and his wonderfully reassuring "I gawr-on-tee"? So many years ago...

Gods i miss that man. I Guar-on-tee...

was on many years ago, late on Saturday night on a PBS channel. He would prepare foods that you would cook in a wok. I didn't even own a wok, but I watched anyway - just to see him chop up various foods a lightening speed - but mostly to hear his lame jokes. Jokes and puns that were never funny, but made me laugh anyway. Just because he tried so hard to be funny and was so cute doing it.

"Yan Can Cook" ?

I think "Wok With Yan" was his first show.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335780/

Clarified butter, heavy cream, and wine. Lots of wine.

He was funny too.

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...but you're referring to the Graham Kerr of the
60's - early 70's. HILARIOUS... and maybe drunker
than Keith Floyd for his shows.
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He made a comeback in the 90's and prepared
EVERYTHING way too uber-fucking-healthy. And
he had gone clean-and-sober.
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He was boring. His food was boring. I don't think
he lasted long at his comeback.
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I think I read somewhere that the change in his cooking style happened when his wife died.

I remember watching him as a kid though... he was hilarious, and hammered.

I also remember him going into the audience and picking a woman to share the meal he just cooked.