Cooking Program

YellowSheep

I have an opportunity to pitch an idea to a production company. I just wondering what is everybody favorable show. Thanks for participating. Oliver

hedgehog33

Hi Oliver,

I'm a big fan of cookery programmes. Current(ish) ones I like best would be Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares, and Masterchef is very enjoyable too.
I like the fact that they combine cooking with a different angle (business/competition). I also thought Jamie Oliver's show about school dinners in the UK was great, and admire him a lot for trying to make a difference.

Best of luck with the pitch. I think that given the current financial mood, a programme about old-fashioned cooking, with more economical ingredients would be good. The slow-food movement seems to be really catching on.

You should maybe post this in the Cooking forum also, the posters there might have a different perspective.

YellowSheep

Hi Hedge
I did so. Thanks for the suggestions.
Cheers Oliver

shoutman

Good luck with it Oliver, definitely is a wealth of cookery programs out there, ranging from old school how to cook Chinese to ready steady cook, masterchef etc.

I can't really think of what's left to do in this genre of telly.

I enjoyed Jamie Oliver's series when he went about getting people to start cooking in a pass it on mentality, whereby he thought four people they were supposed to teach four etc etc.
Something along those lines maybe?

Or getting in touch with a professional kitchen and picking four random people from a dole cue and trying to make them into professional chefs?

Lplated

Good luck.

I like Nevins food in the sun (or whatever the right name is), on rte 1 at the moment - he has an easy style and his ideas are adaptable, regardless of your own standard of cooking ability.

There are a lot of programmes available at the minute - so to make it fly, i think you need to be offering something different (but i guess thats why you've mentioned it on here).


I haven't got a killer idea but thing i would incorporate would be 1) simple cooking jobs/recipes - in particular, no need for small pinches of fancy or uncommon ingredients, and secondly, no need for equipment that you wouldn't find in a very basic kitchen.
2). I would include members of the public somehow - theres a restaurant in france (i think), where people go to at lunch time, and part of the time is spent teaching how to cook their lunch, and the other part eating it - something like that maybe, but on camera.
3). Have a web site up and running in conjunction - so people can reread/rewatch the programme and make suggestions etc..

Mr Clonfadda

from a entrepreneurial and business management i would love to watch a program that would be about the food but also the business. Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares has an element of this but what made the various Chefs start out on their own and setup their own restaurants or food business etc

TheCostumeShop.ie: Ronan

Agreed the restaurant business is fascinating because its one of the hardest business to succeed in!

ClaireyBee

Hi Oliver,
I loved Jamie Olivers pass it on one. I do a recipe website aimed at getting students and ppl who think they can't cook. It's gotten really popular and a couple of the colleges have put it in their college handbooks for healthy living. It'd be great now coz ppl don't realise how much money they'd save by cooking their own food from scratch and by leaving out the jars and sachets. We were going to organise cooking classes and stuff but got sidetracked by other projects (and am too lazy to get it organised!!)
Pm me if you want a link to my site.

Best wishes!x