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Chef Tell: The Biography of Americas Pioneer TV Showman Chef
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Tell started all this television madness about chefs. Regis PhilbinBefore The Food Network, there was Chef Tell the TV persona of Friedemann Paul Erhardt, Americas first TV showman chef. Big on personality and flavor, Chef Tell was once described by Philadelphia magazine as the affably roguish Bad Boy of the Philadelphia restaurant world. Chef Tell explores how a young German American chef became Americas biggest TV celebrity chef of his time. Most of Chef Tells forty million baby boomer viewersa number comparable to Julia Childsnever knew his fascinating, hardscrabble life story.Until now.This winning biography puts us behind the line inside his kitchen and inside his, at times, turbulent personal life. Tell not only charmed, worked, entertained and taught audiences how to cook on live television shows, but, a quickwitted perfectionist, he also demanded only the freshest ingredients for his life of food, fame, fortune, and women.Chef Tells lifehis colleagues would agreewas a managed, complicated and mercurial affair, which changed two industries and the taste buds of millions of home cooks.An absorbing account of an extraordinary man, Chef Tell brings us through his personal and professional highs and lows, and his glorious successes, explaining why so many loved or hated him then, and miss him dearly now. The day Chef Tell passed on, messages of surprise and shock flooded the Internet and media airwaves. Chef Tell has died? Stick a fork in him, hes done, one wrote.Chef Tell would have loved that. Readers are beginning to find out why and they agree. 454 pages, 70 color photographs, and a sevencourse dinner menu of recipes that Tell left behind for all of us!
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