A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, usually a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience through the food's preparation showing all intermediate stages of cooking. These shows are often intended to be at least partly educational, as the host teaches the viewing audience how to prepare different meals with each episode of the show; though some cooking shows (such as Iron Chef) are intended simply for entertainment.While rarely achieving top ratings, cooking shows have been a popular staple of daytime TV programming since the earliest days of television. They are generally very inexpensive to produce, making them an economically easy way for a TV station to fill a half-hour (or sometimes 60 minute) TV episode.A number of cooking shows have run for many seasons, especially when they are sponsored by local TV stations or by public broadcasting. Many of the more popular cooking shows have had flamboyant hosts whose unique personalities have made them into celebrities.Famous cooking shows include:

Talking briefly about Emeril and Justin Wilson the other day brought back to mind the pioneer of television cooking as entertainment, Graham Kerr (pronounced “care”) who billed himself as The Galloping Gourmet.Bounding onto the tv scene in 1969, Kerr began a daily half-hour shows for the CBC in Canada. That’s right, every day.

On December 11 the Food Network will pull the plug on "Emeril Live!" one of its longest-running cooking shows, and will be going off air.Both the Food Network and the New Orleans power cook say their relationship hasn't soured. Emeril remains firmly in position at the helm of his other show, "The Essence of Emeril." Check Out Full Story!!

T.V. cooking show "Emeril Live" ends

Food Networks golden boy is done with his show "Emeril Live" which has coined such sayings as, "BAM!" and "kick it up a notch".

Before Emeril Lagasse, before 30-Minute Meals with Rachel Ray-before Food even became a Network-there was the towering, yet approachable, figure of Mrs. Julia Child. A pioneer of television cooking shows, she nonchalantly ushered magnificent French-style cooking into everyday American homes.