Chef John Besh's New Orleans Premieres April 2

Watch the premiere of CHEF JOHN BESH'S NEW ORLEANS on WYES Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. Each episode repeats Sundays at 2:00 p.m.


CHEF JOHN BESH'S NEW ORLEANS, a 26-part cooking series, features celebrity Chef John Besh cooking cuisine that he grew up with and highlights recipes from his 2009 cookbook "My New Orleans: 200 of My Favorite Recipes and Stories from My Hometown."

Each half-hour episode, shot at WYES' New Orleans studios, offers New Orleans classics along with contemporary dishes for a rich gumbo of cooking technique, food history, and personal memories from the chef's childhood in and around his beloved New Orleans.
A celebration of Chef John Besh's award-winning cuisine and his love of New Orleans.
Chef John Besh is the best of a new generation of New Orleans chefs. Shot in high definition, the series begins airing nationwide this spring on Public Television Stations (check local listings).  His world-class, award-winning cuisine springs from roots deep in the rich food culture of his south Louisiana heritage. The series is a tribute to and celebration of the food he loved as a boy growing up on the bayous, refined in his years of study in America and Europe, and brought back home where his six New Orleans area restaurants are indelible parts of Louisiana’s restaurant landscape.

Chef Besh has been the recipient of numerous top industry accolades, including the James Beard Award for Best Chef of the Southeast,  Food and Wine magazine’s “Top 10 Best Chefs in America,”  Food Arts Silver Spoon Award and the Louisiana Restaurant Association’s ‘Restaurateur of the Year.’  Gourmet magazine rated restaurant August in it’s “America’s Top 50 Restaurants” twice.

He has also represented New Orleans on several popular series including “Iron Chef America,” “Top Chef,” “Top Chef Masters,” “The Today Show,” “The Paula Deen Show,” “CBS Early Show,” “Martha Stewart,” and “Rachael Ray.” Chef Besh is also the star of a new TLC series “Inedible to Incredible.”

Chef Besh is a proud U.S. military veteran. After attending the Culinary Institute of America and apprenticeships in Germany and France, Besh led a squad of infantry marines in combat to liberate the Kuwait International Airport during Operation Desert Storm as a non-commissioned officer of the United States Marine Corps Reserve.

Married and father of four boys, Chef Besh, is proprietor of six award-winning restaurants in New Orleans – August; Lüke; Besh Steak; Domenica; American Sector, which is located on the campus of the National World War II Museum; and La Provence, a rural restaurant in Lacombe, Louisiana. Most recently his first restaurant opened outside of Louisiana, Lüke River Walk, in San Antonio.

CHEF JOHN BESH’S NEW ORLEANS offers New Orleans classics along with contemporary dishes for a rich gumbo of cooking technique, food history, and personal memories from the chef’s childhood in and around his beloved New Orleans.
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