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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. See more awards » Photos Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Edit Storyline One of the first classic cooking shows, "The Galloping Gourmet" featured charismatic, ribald cook Graham Kerr doing obscenely rich and decadent recipes. The series was a smash hit in Canada and was later syndicated in the U.S. Written by Anonymous Le gourmet farfelu See more » Company Credits Did You Know? Trivia A continuation of a series first produced for Australian television. Injuries sustained in a 1971 auto accident forced Kerr to end the series at the height of its popularity. See more » Connections The Galloping Gourmet ... what a hoot! 29 September 2010 | by GrandGayleAnn (United States) – See all my reviews A friend just called and said that they are re-running Graham Kerr's show on Food Netword. I am definitely going to check it out. I loved his humor. The first time I watched his show, I wasn't certain if he was a comedian or a chef. I later accepted that he was a master of both crafts.

I am an old woman now, but I learned something from Graham Kerr that has served well for many years. After one of his infamous disasters at the stove, he glanced at the audience and said, "I meant to do that." I am a seamstress and have borrowed that phrase many times. Like him, I have celebrated the beauty of the finished product and laughed at the convoluted process that got me there. A toast to the fab Graham Kerr. 1 of 1 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes The Galloping Gourmet : Cooking Channel Dinner The Galloping Gourmet In this classic 1960s U.K. import, saddle up with host Graham Kerr as he gallops center stage (literally leaping over a dining room chair while swirling a glass of wine to open every show!) and delights viewers with culinary shenanigans and mishaps performed in front of a studio audience. Graham taps into the culinary good life, with recipes heavy in butter, cream and fat paired with wine and delicious, guilt-free hilarity.

Graham Kerr Biographies Graham Kerr Almost forgotten by the turn of the 2000s, Graham Kerr was the celebrity chef of the 1970s. He became famous for his one show, the "Galloping Gourmet." 455 episodes were filmed in all. There was butter, cream, wine and laughter. During the run of "The Galloping Gourmet", Weight Watchers named him "public enemy number one" and sent him a broken spoon. He was considered outrageous for the times. While making a chicken dish, he'd say "All right, ladies! Throw your breasts into the pan." He joked, played camp and laughed with his viewers, and never minded making himself the object of laughs. His episodes went so fast that no one was ever really able to write the recipes down. Then, it all changed. He had a car accident, and found Jesus and low-fat. He became a member of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and an honorary life member of the American Dietetic Association.

He has become (as of 2007) a public speaker at hospitals and for organizations, health programmes and rehab centres, and has set up his own corporation called "Kerr Corporation." He partners with American Dietetic Association for projects, and does radio / TV spots for the American National Cancer Institute on healthy fruit and vegetables. A naturalized American citizen, he lives in Mount Vernon, Washington. His favourite spices are garlic, ginger, lemongrass and lemon. Chronology 1934 -- Graham was born 22 January 1934 in Brondesbury London, England. His Scottish Presbyterian parents had a hotel in Sussex; previously, his father John Douglas Kerr had worked for Claridge's in London. He went to a primary school called "Kidbrooke Park" in Forest Row, East Sussex. The first thing he made in the kitchen was puff pastry, when he was 6, reaching the work-surface in his parent's hotel's kitchen by standing on a box. The puff pastry didn't turn out. 1948 -- At the age of 14, Graham dropped out of school.

1949 -- At the age of 15, he started training at the Roebuck Hotel in Ware, East Sussex, England, then studied hotel management at colleges in Brighton (Brighton Technical College) and Devon. 1952 -- At the age of 18, he started several years in the British army in the kitchens at a garrison in Wales, then at the Army Emergency Reserve in Bedford, Bedfordshire. Part of his stint at one point was washing pans when he was demoted from Corporal to Private for not doing as he was told, and for pranks such as sending a Yorkshire pudding to the Ministry of Health to be analysed, 1955 -- On 22 September 1955, he married Treena Van Doom, an English actress (born 18 May 1934.) They had first met when they were both eleven. They would have three children. 1955 -- Graham and Treena joined Graham's parents as business partners in owning and running an inn dating back to the 1400s, but it went bankrupt.

To pay off their debts, he had to get a job as a waiter; she had to get a job as a barmaid. They paid off the debt with their tips. 1956 -- Their daughter Tessa was born. 1957 -- Aged twenty-three, he became general manager of the Royal Ascot Hotel in Berkshire (demolished 1964), where his parents were now working as well. He found it a lot of work for very little money. 1958 -- Graham and Treena emigrated to New Zealand, where Graham worked as a food advisor for the New Zealand Air Force. They arrived with $1.25 to their name; and got an advance of $200 on his salary. 1959 -- Graham appeared on the air in New Zealand to demonstrate cooking. In his very first cooking show ever on television, he was dressed in military uniform, and showed how to cook an omelet. He was a hit. He went on to do 60 shows more in this series, called "Entertaining with Kerr." He also became an advisor to various government produce marketing boards in New Zealand. 1960 -- His son Andrew was born.

1963 and 1965 -- Graham won New Zealand Television's "Personality of the Year" award. 1964 -- Graham was transferred by the military to Sydney, Australia, where he did a show called "Eggs with Flight Lieutenant Kerr" on Saturday nights. In Australia, he lived in Middle Harbour, Cremorne. He had a two-storey test kitchen built in the home. 1968 -- His daughter Kareena was born. 1968 -- A Canadian producer associated with Fremantle International saw his show in Australia, and offered him a gateway into the North American market. The fee paid to Graham would be $2 million for 650 episodes. Treena, his wife, would help produce the series. Graham came to Canada to star in the show called the "Galloping Gourmet." The series was produced in, of all places, Ottawa, Canada, for a TV channel called "CJOH-TV", part of Canada's state broadcasting station, CBC.

The show ran five days a week, Monday to Friday, on daytime TV, often in mid-morning, competing with other programmes such as "The Edge of Night" and "The Beverly Hillbillies." 1969 -- CBS in America picked it up starting in January 1969. Within five months, Julia Child reputedly said, "He doesn't know a thing about cooking." But his had become a must-see show. On 3 March 1969, Apollo 9 was launched into space. The news was almost overshadowed because it was also the day Graham Kerr's potholder caught fire on TV. In Ottawa, Graham and Treena lived in the exclusive Rockcliffe Village, but he still kept his house in Australia, which he considered home. During his time in Canada, Graham would have several extra-marital affairs. 1970 -- Graham lent his name to a collection of stove-top and oven ware, as well as cutlery. 1971 -- Graham was planning on ending the series.

He said in interviews in February of that year that the 1,000th episode would be his last -- "after all, nobody in their right mind could continue a pace like this" -- and that he'd focus on his cookware. Then, on 21 April of that year, he and Treena were in a car-crash in California. They were passengers in a house trailer that was rear-ended by a vegetable truck and trailer that was speeding. Graham was left with a dislocated spine and a weakened right arm, and was temporarily paralysed on his left side. His doctor told him he had to take a year off, so he had the reason he wanted to end the show. He decided to take his family on a round-the-world sailing trip. The first stop was England, to collect one of his daughters from school there, and to actually buy the boat -- a huge 71 foot (21 1/2 metres) fibreglass yacht for $250,000.

During a phone interview conducted with him while he was in Bournemouth, England, in October, he said ""I predict that within 25 years, 60 per cent of the people will be living on pills and a milky substance obtained from roots." 1972 -- In January, they were still in England. Treena was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and had to have part of her lungs removed. They then did a trial four-month cruise of the Mediterranean before starting their world cruise. The world cruise, however, never materialized as Treena found that she got too boat sick. 1972 -- In April, Graham and Treena filed $1.5 million worth of lawsuits in California against the drivers of both the vegetable truck and the house trailer, and their employers. The studios also sued the drivers because the accident prevented the series from getting completed. In July, Graham was in Toronto, Canada for a short while.

1973 -- (approximately.) Graham and Treena bought a 10,000 square foot 1814 mansion on a 10-acre estate in Easton, Maryland right on Chesapeake Bay, and built a $60,000 test kitchen there. He began teaching at Cornell University Hotel School in Ithaca, NY as an adjunct professor. To look after the house, Graham and Treena hired a maid named Ruthie who was a member of a Pentecostal Holiness church in Wilmington, Delaware. 1974 -- Graham and Treena lost $800,000 in bad investments. Forced to return to work, Graham developed the "Take Kerr" series of infomercials. At the end of this year, Treena became an evangelical Christian on 17 December when Ruthie the maid invited her to church; Graham followed suit three months later on 13 March 1975, a few months after Treena saw Jesus in a vision. They made immediate changes in the "Take Kerr" series. The wine rack in the background was replaced by a Holy Spirit Dove.

The sign-on song became "This is the day the lord has made", and bible verses were added to the closing credits. The advertising agencies asked them to remove the bible verses. The Kerrs refused. The TV stations edited them out anyway, and the Kerrs quit in a huff. [1] [2] [3] They auctioned off their house, their yacht, their sailboats and almost all their worldly possessions. They disowned their previous "Galloping Gourmet" work as sinful and tried to get re-runs taken off the air. [4] They became inspirational speakers, and opened a spiritual retreat centre near Vail, Colorado at a 614-acre ranch they called "Rejoice Fellowship" for couples, but it failed. 1978 -- Graham and Treena joined Youth With A Mission. 1986 -- Treena had a heart-attack, and Graham got serious about low-fat cooking. He decided that his calling was to teach people how to eat better.

1990s -- In the 1990s, Graham returned to TV, somewhat repentant over his earlier zealotry, promising advertisers to keep religion off the air, and began preaching the gospel of low-fat instead. His shows were more health-conscious, and were branded very tame. 1994 -- Graham received a Special Citation from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. 1996 -- Graham became the Editor at Large for Cooking Light magazine. He continued this position until 2000. 1997 -- Graham was appointed to the College of Diplomats of the Educational Foundation of (American) National Restaurant Association. He also received a James Beard Foundation Award 1999 -- Graham was inducted into the American Culinary Federation Hall of Fame. 2000 -- Graham was made an Honorary Life Membership to the American Dietetic Association. 2003 -- Graham received an Honorary Doctorate in "Culinary Nutrition" from Johnson & Wales University, Rhode Island. He also became a member of American Advisory Board for Partnership For Food Safety Education.

2006 -- Graham was on tour in America to promote his new book, "Recipe for Life." Television 1959 to 1968. 155 1/2 hour episodes in a series called "Entertaining with Kerr." Broadcast in Australia and New Zealand 1969 to 1971. The Galloping Gourmet. 455 1/2 hour episodes. Broadcast around the world. The series that made him famous. 1970. 5 minute radio spots called "Fun with Food", Monday to Friday on NBC Radio Network 1974. 260 5-minute infomercials on healthy eating in a series called "Take Kerr" 1976. 30-minute colour film called "Switch On Kitchen" about seafood for Cornell University. 1988. 39 half-hour programmes in a series called "Simply Marvellous" 1990. 170 1/2 hour programmes in a series called "The Graham Kerr Show" 1990. 130 thirty-second publication awareness ads on healthy eating broadcast in America 1992. PBS.

78 1/2 hour programmes in a series called "Graham Kerr's Kitchen" 1996. PBS. 26 1/2 hour episodes in a series called "The Best of Kerr" 1997. TV series "Swiftly Seasoned" for PBS, consisting of 26 1/2 hour episodes 2001. Gathering Place. 130 1-hour TV episodes. Focussed on healthy alternatives. Graham and Treena. A health expert was featured on each episode: whether a health professional, researcher or government official Books by Graham Kerr 1963. Entertaining with Kerr, AH & AW Reed, Wellington, New Zealand. 1964. The Graham Kerr Cookbook (British Edition) Lion Publishing and AH & AW Reed, Wellington, New Zealand. 1965. The Galloping Gourmets, AH & AW Reed, Sydney, Australia. 1970. The Graham Kerr Cookbook (American Edition), Doubleday. (200 recipes) 1970 to 1972. The Television Cookbooks Seven Volumes, Fremantle International, USA. 1973.

The Complete Galloping Gourmet Cookbook, Grossett and Dunlap. 1975. The New Seasoning, Simon and Schuster. 1997. The Love Feast, Simon and Schuster. 1981. Step by Step Cookbook, David C. Cook. 1991. Graham Kerr's Smart Cooking, Bantam Doubleday Dell. 1992. Graham Kerr's Minimax Cookbook, Bantam Doubleday Dell. 1993. Graham Kerr's Creative Choices, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1994. Graham Kerr's Kitchen, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1996. January. Graham Kerr's Best, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1997. January. Swiftly Seasoned with Graham Kerr, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1997. October. The Gathering Place, Camano Press. 2002. January. The Gathering Place, Volume II, Quarry Press. 2004. Graham Kerr's simply splenda cookbook. Alexandria, VA: Small Steps Press (with Treena.) 2004.

Charting a course to wellness: Creative ways of living with heart disease and diabetes. Alexandria, VA: American Diabetes Association (with Treena.) 2006. Recipe For Life. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishing Group (with Treena.) 2006. Outdulgence. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishing Group (with Treena.) Literature & Lore "The Galloping Gourmet provides an entertaining half hour, but is about as far away from the Julia Child sort of cooking as Liberace is from Horowitz." -- Lowry, Cynthia. Apollo TV coverage zooms up, too. In Elyria, Ohio: The Chronicle Telegram. 4 March 1969. Page 12. "QUESTION FOR GRAHAM KERR, TV's "Galloping Gourmet" Do you pick the people who taste your specialty for that day, and if so, are they people on your staff? (asked by Martin Thaler, Ridgefield, NJ.) Yes, I do pick the people to taste the dish, but these are people in the audience and not part of our staff or crew.

Also, these are picked at random and not selected ahead of time." -- "Ask Them Yourself" column. In Family Weekly Magazine. Tri-city Herald. Pasco, Washington. 11 April 1971. Page 2. "You just have to accept this from us," says Graham. "The male position in the household has been taken over by the female. She handles all the available money and he turns his money over to her. That's an illegal relationship. My bones are bigger than hers. I'm designed by God to take that responsibility (of decision-making)."..... In open forum discussions, in churches, in meeting halls, the Kerrs talk together. Her message is, "How I Lost the Liberation Battle and Won the War." -- Hass, Jane Glenn. Their New Recipe for Happiness. Hayward, California. The Daily Review. Tuesday, 7 June 1977. Page 8. Language Notes His last name is pronounced "care", not "cur". Sources [1] "We tried to get the message out," says Graham.

"We had little doves carved into the top of what was once the door to the wine cellar, and open Bible on the bench and a Christian tune closing the show." But when they added a one second flash of a Bible verse in the credit line, "there was fury. The station asked us, ‘Can’t you just compromise and take it off?’ " he recalls. They couldn’t. By sticking to their personal commitment, they walked away from millions of dollars and overnight were set free of 36 entangling contracts. They also lost the rights to the Galloping Gourmet trademark, which has cost them millions of dollars in earnings." -- Siewert, Dionna Lynne. Galloping Gourmet Changes Directions.Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Living Light News. c. 1998. Retrieved Dec 2011 from [2] On "Take Kerr", there is no reminder of the Galloping Gourmet. Gone is the impressive wine cellar that was used as a backdrop for the earlier show. Instead, there is a 'God Bless' from Kerr at the end and almost subliminal flash of suggested biblical verse reading." -- White, Jean. Graham Kerr Shuns Gourmet Life.

LA Times - Washington Post. Reprinted in: Sarasota Herald-Tribune Sunday. 22 February 1976. Page 15. [3] Kerr (pronounced 'Care') has a new show now, called 'Take Kerr', on which he blends low-calorie cooking advice with a pinch of Christianity.... The new, 3 1/2 minute show ..... Besides the absence of alcohol, innuendo and calories, the new show has some other differences which reflect the new Kerr. The wine rack has been replaced with 'an alcove of light with a dove in it," a frothy theme song has been ousted by 'This is the Day the Lord has Made,' and the closing credits include a Bible quotation." -- Baker, Ann. TV's Galloping Gourmet a changed man. Eugene Register-Guard. 3 October 1975. Page 1B. [4] "Of the show which made him famous, Kerr said, "What I did wasn't an art, it was a crime ....

Kerr flails himself for encouraging alcohol use by drinking wine on the old show and for spreading 'smut and sexual innuendo' in the form of double entendres about his cooking ingredients. Food preparations such as 'stuff something into the backside of a chicken' or 'stripping an eel' gave him an opportunity to make viewers laugh with lewd jokes, he said. The Kerrs are trying to get TV stations to stop showing re-runs of the 'Galloping Gourmet' show." -- Baker, Ann. TV's Galloping Gourmet a changed man. Eugene Register-Guard. 3 October 1975. Page 1B. ____________________________________ "Hand foods diet of future". (Galloping Gourmet). Long Beach, California. Independent Press-Telegram. Wednesday, 13 October 1971. Page F-20. "What in the World!" (Galloping Gourmet). Family Weekly Magazine. 28 February 1971. Page 23. Associated Press. Galloping Gourmet Suspends TV Appearances for While. Fresno, California: The Fresno Bee. Monday, 24 July 1972.

Page A6. Associated Press. Ideal Kitchen the Aim of Galloping Gourmet. In Daily Tribune. Grand Bend, Kansas. Monday, 15 February 1971. Page 8. Canadian Press. Graham Kerr Will Relax. In Winnipeg Free Press. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Tuesday. 24 August 1971. Page 18. Claire, Aileen. Galloping Gourmet Cooks Up Delectable Television Dish. Burlington, North Carolina: Times News. 27 May 1969. Page 10-A. Deans, Ralph C. The Galloping Gourmet. Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany: The Stars and Stripes. 27 April 1969. Page 32. Dietrich, William. A Healthy Conversion. Seattle, Washington: The Seattle Times. 1 June 2003. Emlet, Dolores. Galloping Gourmet Cooks Up a New Lifestyle. Charleston, West Virginia: Charleston Daily Mail. Wednesday, 30 June 2006. Page 3B. Galloping Gourmet a must for cooks.

Kingston, Jamaica: The Sunday Gleaner Magazine. 23 April 1972. Page 9. Galloping Gourmet New Cooking Series. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Winnipeg Free Press. 4 January 1969. TV Radio Section. Page 15. Gourmet Sues. Long Beach, California: Independent Press-Telegram. Saturday, 22 April 1972. Page A2. Hass, Jane Glenn. Their New Recipe for Happiness. Hayward, California. The Daily Review. Tuesday, 7 June 1977. Page 8. Jankiewicz, Robert. What has become of Graham Kerr, the Galloping Gourmet? In the 'Anytime Column'. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Winnipeg Free Press. Monday, 13 November 1978. Page 7. Sassone, Bob. What's Graham Kerr up to? 27 December 2006. Slashfood. Retrieved from on 6 February 2007. Walker, Larry. Graham Kerr - gourmet. San Rafael, California: Wines & Vines Magazine. August 1995.

Print Page The Straight Dope: Whatever happened to the Galloping Gourmet? A Staff Report from the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board Whatever happened to the Galloping Gourmet? Dear Straight Dope: I know that you must be the most intelligent human being in the world. I realize this because my last name is also Adams. I've also read "The Prince" by Machiavelli and understand that flattery will get me everywhere. Oh great one, what became of the greatest and most drunk TV cook commonly referred to as the Galloping Gourmet? I vaguely remember watching this cullinary giant at the tender age of 7. I also recollect that he gained much of his inspiration by drinking large quantities of wine while on the air. What was his name? What became of him? Finally, but least of all, may I become a great chef by drinking large quantities of alcohol on television? — Nicholas G Adams Well, Nicholas, I do hope you'll accept the answer from an non-Adams. I'll do what I can under that handicap.

According to the website entitled Wellness on the Web with Graham Kerr (the Galloping One's real name): "In his days as the Galloping Gourmet he practiced "hedonism in a hurry," creating dishes overflowing with cream, butter, egg yolks and deep-fat fried. "In 1972, while recuperating after a near fatal accident, Graham began to experiment with a low-fat cooking style to help ease his family's stomachs while traveling at sea. The family, however, rebelled against Graham's first efforts of his "caring" cuisine, claiming the food to be bland and unremitting. "It wasn't until his wife Treena's heart attack in 1986 did Graham really begin to refine his low-fat cuisine, realizing he needed to wrap the "caring" with pleasure. The same year Graham decided that his personal mission would be to help Treena make healthy and creative lifestyle changes that would last. "After a 23 year journey of intensive nutritional research, combined with his years of cooking experience, Graham created the techniques he uses today.

He has shared these discoveries through his books and television series, as seen on PBS and The Discovery Channel and continues to communicate his message of combining sound nutrition with creative cooking on an international level." His new, healthier cooking show, "Swiftly Seasoned" can be seen on your local PBS station, and you can catch his Web show on the New Atlantis site. Now as to whether drinking while cooking can make you a great chef, I don't know, but it never seemed to hurt Julia Child any, either. - — Terey Staff Reports are written by the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board, Cecil's online auxiliary. Though the SDSAB does its best, these columns are edited by Ed Zotti, not Cecil, so accuracywise you'd better keep your fingers crossed. 'Galloping Gourmet,' Redirected, Handles Life with Care 'Galloping Gourmet,' Redirected, Handles Life with Care September 22, 2010 | By Tom Brinkmoeller Pace, as in the miles-per-hour context, always seems to have had a large role in the life of Graham Kerr.

When he was in his 30s, in the late 1960s, he won over a very large number of viewers and pretty much invented a TV cooking form when he was known as The Galloping Gourmet and hosted a daily syndicated show of the same name. The pace then could be described as frantic -- as one can witness by watching the daily replays of the 1969-71 series on cable's Cooking Channel. Kerr would burst onto the set, running among and greeting members of the always-packed studio audience. A full wine glass in his hand, he would run onto the set, jump one or two dining room chairs and finally settle onto a bar stool where he'd sip his drink, sometimes puff a cigarette and set up the day's cooking with a monologue that was packed with energy and crowned with a punch line. It was a fitting introduction for the turbocharged cooking segment, a delightful, taste-at-all-costs, adventure that captivated his fans and galvanized opposition from proponents of healthy eating. A group that promoted heart health called him "dangerous," and a weight-loss group singled him out as one year's largest impediment to fitness.

Contacted recently at his rural north-of-Seattle, Wash., home, Kerr talked about the top-speed environment: the company would produce two or three shows a day, 195 shows a year, a total of 455 by the time the show's run ended. It all was done from a TV studio in Ottawa, Canada. Every show was as entertaining as it was enjoyable. It remains one of the fastest 30 minutes on television because Kerr, his wife and producer, Treena, and a crew that obviously was enjoying itself and its new-found multi-continental attention worked so hard to make it look like nothing but fun. Enjoy it, he did: "Each show had approximately 19-1/2 hours of my life poured into it. . . By the time you get to (the show itself), you either enjoy the end of the process or you're a fool," Kerr said. Thanks to a weekday-afternoon Galloping Gourmet dose on Cooking Channel, old fans are reconnecting with Kerr while others undoubtedly are discovering this program as a matinee must-see. Just don't count Graham Kerr among the show's viewers.

It isn't simply because this man who has logged more than 1,800 television appearances doesn't own a television set. It isn't directly connected to the fact that he has only seen three episodes of The Galloping Gourmet in his life -- he explained that at the time Treena didn't want him analyzing, and maybe jeopardizing, the way the program came together. It's because now, at 76, Graham Kerr's life is just as intense as it was in those Nixon-era days. It just has been speeding in an entirely different direction for four decades. The Kerrs' life has changed from five-star gourmet elegance to a simplicity that leaves no room for the former. The transformation unfolded in a particularly dramatic way. In 1971 the Kerrs were victims of a serious auto accident -- so serious, it ended production of The Galloping Gourmet. After they recovered, they began a round-the-world sailing trip. It was in Antibes, in the south of France, on May 18, 1971 (Treena's 37th birthday), where everything changed.

To celebrate the day, they went ashore and enjoyed a French feast, "a magnificent meal," he recalled. "It was the last magnificent meal I ever had." They returned to their boat as a large storm was developing, and "it wasn't very long before we were all very sick." The following morning, stunned by the results of their excess, the young couple radically changed pace and started speeding in a new direction. For the remainder of their trip, they made meals that were fresh from the land or the sea. It was a radical move from the TV cooking style that regularly subjugated health concerns to butter- and fat-infused tastiness. "When I came ashore," he said, "all I could think of was telling people about it." The conversion to "eating as fresh as you can" took hold and has been central to the Kerrs' lives since. Today, they still are moving at a pretty swift pace to reach a lot of people with their message. At their WEBSITE , they fully explain their Double Benefit approach to living. In short, this is a philosophy to benefit personally by eating better while helping others by donating some of the resources that are saved in that process. Their efforts are three-pronged.

Growing at the Speed of Life is a book that explains their mission in detail and offers plenty of solution ideas, including advice for personal planting and harvesting of fruits and vegetables and many recipes for making the harvest varied and palatable. It's nearing completion and will be their 26th book. They also have turned their yard into a substantial garden, doing much of the work themselves. Their strong video orientation made it natural for them to document this process. They shot many hours, are editing it now for use on their website and hope to have it completed and on-line by Feb. 1, 2011. They additionally plan to transform the website to an interactive one where people interested in better lifestyles can share information, as neighbors would. "My enthusiasm for what I do now is exactly the same as it was (during the run of the TV show)," he said. "I lived that life and suffered the consequences of it. I'm just trying to make people understand that we must find a better way to live our lives. He doesn't think this new effort ever will surpass the popularity of the polar-opposite television series, nor is that a goal. "I cannot compete with myself.

I'm just trying to make people understand that we must find a better way to live our lives," he said -- then added a thought the original incarnation of the Galloping Gourmet probably wouldn't have understood: "As a society, we've gone too far and gotten ahead of ourselves. We just have to slow down a bit." Graham Kerr - Biography - IMDb Graham Kerr Jump to: Overview (2) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trivia (7) | Personal Quotes (1) Overview (2) The Galloping Gourmet Mini Bio (1) Graham Kerr was born on January 22, 1934 in London, England. He is a writer, known for The Galloping Gourmet (1968), Beat Angel (2004) and Julia Child and Graham Kerr: Cooking in Concert (1995). He was previously married to Treena Kerr . Spouse (1) ( 22 September 1955 - 17 September 2015) (her death) (3 children) Trivia (7) Author of numerous cooking books.

After his wife Treena's heart attack in 1986, Graham became immersed in low-fat cuisine. He joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force as its chief catering advisor. In that role, he cooked an omelete in uniform on his first TV show (1959). His father was a hotel manager. Married his childhood sweetheart, Treena, when he was 21. Three children, Tessa, Andrew and Karina. Last name pronounced like "care." Personal Quotes (1) Dig your own garden. There's nothing more rewarding. Do it in the company of your neighbours. Green the neighbourhood. See also Graham Kerr's Website -the former Galloping Gourmet The Former Galloping Gourmet Welcome to my Website! It’s probably been a while since we’ve chatted! I want you to know that I’m doing wonderful! Let’s talk more here . What is UpStreaming? You’ll notice that I talk a lot about upstreaming. I tell you about what upstreaming means in this video. Learn how we can upstream together in my blog. Visit now! Get a Free Chapter from My New Book! Learn about the importance of humble beginnings and a fate worse than death!

1969, Graham Kerr Cookbook by The Galloping Gourmet‏ from faywrayantiques on Ruby Lane Expand Description Graham Kerr Cookbook by The Galloping Gourmet, Published by Doubleday & Co, Garden City, New York, 1969 Second Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated with Black and White Photos. Condition is Very Good no marks looks like it has never been used, 284 pages. Dust jacket has wear on edges see photos. Graham Kerr (born January 22, 1934 in London) is a cooking personality who is best known for his television cooking show The Galloping Gourmet. Kerr was born in London, and his parents were established hoteliers. As a result, much of his childhood was spent among some of the most outstanding chefs of Europe. Educated at the independent school Brighton College, he became trainee manager at the Roebuck Hotel in East Sussex, England, when he was just fifteen years old. After five years in the British Army as catering adviser, Graham became General Manager of England's Royal Ascot Hotel.

Kerr moved to New Zealand in 1958, becoming chief chef catering adviser for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. It was there that his media career began in the early 1960s: his recipes were delivered on radio and in magazines, and a related book, Entertaining with Kerr, sold out its first edition in eight days. He moved into television with the emergence of the new medium in New Zealand, after being recruited by NZBC producer Shirley Maddock. Later The Galloping Gourmet (1969-71), a show named for Kerr's onscreen persona, was taped in Ottawa at CJOH-TV and produced by his wife Treena Kerr. The origin of his 'Galloping Gourmet' persona stemmed from a 1967 book he co-authored with wine expert Len Evans, The Galloping Gourmets. The nickname was the result of a 35-day worldwide trek to the finest restaurants around the globe. The title was echoed in the opening of each episode of his original North American series, filmed in front of a live audience, where Kerr entered the stage area by running in and leaping over a chair in the dining room set.

The series was known for its lighthearted humour, tomfoolery and the copious use of clarified butter, cream and fat. Indeed, Kerr's most famous line on the show might have been his response to someone's criticism of his cooking: "Madame, you could go outside and get run over by a bus and just think what you would have missed!" He also liberally featured wine, serving it with most meals, drinking it while cooking, using it in his dishes, and waxing poetic about its virtues. In an ongoing feature of the show, Kerr would make his way into the audience as the closing credits began and select an audience member (usually female) whom he would invite onstage with him to enjoy whatever dish he had just prepared. During The Galloping Gourmet's successful run, he became a worldwide sensation, wrote an abundance of cookbooks, and earned two Emmy Award nominations. Item ID:002233

Question: On 60's TV who had the nickname 'The Galloping Gourmet'?
Answer: GRAHAM KERR