I think I prefer the old PBS chefs/cooks to the Food Network stars. I'd forgotten how I loved watching The Frugal Gourmet & the others when I was growing up.
this is how people actually cook. sometimes you mess up, sometimes you forget where things are. The polished and sanitized versions of Food or HGTV cooking shows aren't relatable
@@andrewflick363 I never thought of that! But so true, we learned how to cook in the real world and perfection wasn't expected. I don't remember who, but after one of the old TV chefs did something wrong, they saidIf you make a mistake, just say it's "homestyle". I live by that advice. We have a lot of "homestyle" food on my table.
@@andrewflick363 Was thinking the same thing. I like seeing chefs that are a bit disorganized and talk off the cuff. It’s far more interesting and I feel like I learn more.
They certainly don’t make great shows like this anymore The Frugal Gourmet,Jack Peppin , Julia Childs, Yan CAn Cook, and the Italian chef ciao Italia ❤️
You're so right. All the chefs you mentioned are also my favorites including Nigella Lawson and Ainsley Harriot!! I think you have good taste. No pun intended. Yvette M.
I found out last summer that the song is part of Handel's water music, was listening to the whole piece when I hear the middle and wondered why it sounded familiar.
@@vladdchambers8382 Specifically its the 5th movement (Bourree) from the Suite in D Major (HWV 349). Water Music is a volume of 3 suites in F, D, and G (HWV 348, 349, and 350) composed for King George I in 1717 for a concert on the River Thames
@@gameshowguy2000 Probably early 80s based on the Chicago station, I think they were at the San Francisco station by the late 80s or 1990, show ended around 94 as I recall. (Started in the 70s in Tacoma, possibly with a different title).
Traditionally the bottom crust was a barrier layer when cooking with direct fire and cast iron(which can chemically react during long cooking with acidic foods) also was sort of not-stick and made cleaning easier. Generally only basic flour and fat, not really meant to be eaten in all cases.
I love this man!!! Unfortunately he didn't have a gimmick or shout like that idiot emeril or any of the newer "cooking" show hosts. Most of todays hosts don't even know how to cook, they are just scripted to within an inch of their life. Thank you for uploading!
To have the best crust you should use real butter instead of margarine. Always make your crust like a crescent dough by rolling into six layers. Roll, fold, roll, fold, etc and it will be so light and flaky.
Wanted to say thanks again for uploading these. You mentioned on the Italian American Communities episode that you had screen captured off of Hulu. Does the Frug have episodes on Hulu? If so, me excited.
Does anyone have the Frugal Gourmet intro where he is riding around on a red swind bicycle? I really remember this intro when I watched this show as a 3 year old in 1990. Although this might just be the Mandela effect at work.
bigverybadtom If one did not personally experience the accusation - People seem to enjoy "judging", those that do - share one or more of the following: Low Self-Esteem Jealousy Paranoias Prejudices Narcissistic Traits It is important to apply Empathy and a requirement of facts. 💫❤🗝
That's like saying that if we didn't see it, we cannot say the Holocaust happened. Despite all the rumors, I believe that Michael Jackson was never a child molester. If he were, actual victims would have come out in droves by now. In fact, one man who had been molested by other men in his youth by other celebrities said that MJ never molested him. Jeff Smith, on the other hand, was accused by a number of men who did not know each other. One person I can believe is a liar, but not a whole bunch of them. My judging is based on reasonable evidence, not any psychological reasons you describe.
Store bought is not good because they skimp by not putting in the last few cents of meat. People spend so little for the ingredient even much less than Jeff did 30 years ago.
I like to watch these episodes to hear Mr. Smith talk about such things as having lots of junior high boys around to "peel his onions". I guess there was too much money to be made for his wife or PBS to blow the whistle on the old pervert.
PatCat Coconut oil and butter are truly healthier that margarine and any corn oils, due to mutating the elements to extend shelf life. Know this is fact. I split butter with Coconut Oil or just use Coconut Oil.
PatCat I think at the time this was filmed margarine was more popular then butter for economy reasons and get the time people thought margarine was healthier back then. Now we know better
What happens to us when we die why the question arises Most of the world religious teach that something inside a person continues living after death.Some hold that the dead can harm the living or that God punishes the wicked by condemning them to eternal torment in a fiery hell,what the bible teaches At death,humans cease to exist.The dead are conscious of nothing at all,states Ecclesiastes 9:5 Since the dead cannot know, feel,or experience anything,they cannot harm or help the living Psalm 146:3,4 w3:19and Ecclesiastes 9:6,10 jw.org
Oh the Memories ❤ *(We were wrongly told the margarine and corn oil shortenings were healthy back then. Incorrect, actually the original shortening from before gov began quoting standards, early 20th Century was healthier and that was Lard mixed with Coconut Oil.)* Butter is healthier than margarine and the healthiest now is "Kerry Gold", product of Ireland - cows graze and in green fields of fresh natural greens. FYI - Replace Crisco with Coconut Oil - same consistency as Crisco Shortening and 99.999% HEALTHIER Corn oils, margarine, and shortening are all together TOXIC to one's system due to their hacking them to have longer shelf life - mutated elements simply make THEM money and Cost you Money and your Health. The Fed Gov was not giving the facts, but we're making own investment profits off corn commodity market. "Can you say Not Wise Men"!?! ehhhhhhhh Try to tell someone that isn't educated or naturally bright - they will believe the guy on tv every time. 🙄
I think I prefer the old PBS chefs/cooks to the Food Network stars. I'd forgotten how I loved watching The Frugal Gourmet & the others when I was growing up.
I totally agree !
Me too. Although create has some good shows. Nick Stellino. Jack pepin etc
this is how people actually cook. sometimes you mess up, sometimes you forget where things are. The polished and sanitized versions of Food or HGTV cooking shows aren't relatable
@@andrewflick363 I never thought of that! But so true, we learned how to cook in the real world and perfection wasn't expected. I don't remember who, but after one of the old TV chefs did something wrong, they saidIf you make a mistake, just say it's "homestyle". I live by that advice. We have a lot of "homestyle" food on my table.
@@andrewflick363 Was thinking the same thing. I like seeing chefs that are a bit disorganized and talk off the cuff. It’s far more interesting and I feel like I learn more.
Jeff is still a joy to watch. So enthusiastic. Informing you, not wasting your time.
They certainly don’t make great shows like this anymore The Frugal Gourmet,Jack Peppin , Julia Childs, Yan CAn Cook, and the Italian chef ciao Italia ❤️
I disagree. There are plenty of good cooking shows on PBS nowadays.
I loved Frugal Gourmet, Natalie Dupree and Yan Can Cook.
You're so right. All the chefs you mentioned are also my favorites including Nigella Lawson and Ainsley Harriot!! I think you have good taste. No pun intended. Yvette M.
Yan Can Cook was amazing
You missed Justin Wilson.
To this day, I can’t hear Handel’s Watermusic without thinking of “The Frugal Gourmet”.
Absolutely!
Same thing that came to my mind when I heard the whole thing for the first time and wondered why that part in the middle sounded so familiar...
That theme song is my childhood. Looove this guy and show
For some reason i know exactly what you mean.That theme song echos a better time in history than today.I can't believe how long ago this was.
I found out last summer that the song is part of Handel's water music, was listening to the whole piece when I hear the middle and wondered why it sounded familiar.
@@vladdchambers8382 Specifically its the 5th movement (Bourree) from the Suite in D Major (HWV 349). Water Music is a volume of 3 suites in F, D, and G (HWV 348, 349, and 350) composed for King George I in 1717 for a concert on the River Thames
@Doug19752533
Bully for you ! So few Americans know anything about Classical music. Too bad, really!
Hadn’t watched this show in years, but the moment the theme started playing, I was taken back immediately.
Now I'm craving pot pie...
This brings back very fond memories of my youth.
Totally
As long as you’re not one of the 7 teenagers he supposedly molested. Never charged he settled out of court and retired.
@AGuyNamedTaylor
I don't believe it...there was much doubt in that case. So easy to ruin faaa.ha
Thank you for bringing back good memories. We loved this guy!
at 4:50 I love how he calmly explains to not buy shitty store bought stuff, and to encourage one to make their own, without being overly pretentious.
Back then it cost $1.39...this was, what the 90's? These days, it costs more!
When I read your comment about not buying shitty store bought stuff, I couldn't help but laugh for a few minutes.
@@gameshowguy2000 Probably early 80s based on the Chicago station, I think they were at the San Francisco station by the late 80s or 1990, show ended around 94 as I recall. (Started in the 70s in Tacoma, possibly with a different title).
@John Lee
Still tastes better, too, though.
Traditionally the bottom crust was a barrier layer when cooking with direct fire and cast iron(which can chemically react during long cooking with acidic foods) also was sort of not-stick and made cleaning easier. Generally only basic flour and fat, not really meant to be eaten in all cases.
First cooking show I watched! I learned how to make a omelet when I was 12 bc of this dude!
Glad you didn't meet him in person at that age.
He showed quite a few boys how to make an omelette i'm sure😂😂
And how to put jelly in the doughnuts!
ahh memories of sunday early evening in chicago . this show would come on right around dinner time
I learned about him from my mother-in-law who was a fan & watched religiously....
~R.I.P. Jo Ann~
My kid and teen years! Lol my mom watched this on pbs. I love 80s dishes.
I grew up watching him I always remember the garlic episode. Omelets too!
I learned to love cooking because of him
I remember Jeff Smith. I use to watch The Frugal Gourmet.
Chef John: And now just a pinch of cayenne.
Chef Smith: Hold my pie crust.
when cooking shows were AWESOME!! he's reading a recipe HEll Yeah!
One of my inspirations as a kid
Always learned watching this dude.
Was always a treat watching these 🥰, when pbs was the internet 🥰🐈⬛️remember nature nova, reading rainbow 👍👍
Loved watch frugal gourmet and the urban pheasant
I love this man!!! Unfortunately he didn't have a gimmick or shout like that idiot emeril or any of the newer "cooking" show hosts. Most of todays hosts don't even know how to cook, they are just scripted to within an inch of their life. Thank you for uploading!
Great episode! Glad to see some more up. Several disappeared from ye olde tube recently.
Diddling early teen boys will tend to get your show blacklisted.TH-cam themselves wont post any FG videos but fans will.
"a stick of margarine and a cup of Crisco" w/ a totally straight face. The 80's were so fun...
To have the best crust you should use real butter instead of margarine. Always make your crust like a crescent dough by rolling into six layers. Roll, fold, roll, fold, etc and it will be so light and flaky.
Thanks PBS. 😀
Wanted to say thanks again for uploading these. You mentioned on the Italian American Communities episode that you had screen captured off of Hulu. Does the Frug have episodes on Hulu? If so, me excited.
great find!
Those frozen potpies still look the same. 😂
Don't forget! Jeff Smith liked his food AND his little boys!!!!
I love it! Spaghetti 😄
LOL
This is awesome.
It must have been a Friday show.
Mom would be so proud of what you became🤷
Do you happen to have The Frugal Gourmet intro from 1990, where Jeff Smith is riding on a boat next to the Statue of Liberty?
Squirrel beats rabbit ANY day for sure! 👍
+TheJjr125 Yeah. It's hard to mistake squirrel for cat, like you can for rabbit.
@@lokisgodhi 😂
I miss this guy.
I am hoping to get new meals this week. Thanks
Sadly the Frug didn't get his just desserts.
There was a guy on YT that had like 100 episodes but he got booted for copyright reasons.
So that's what happened.
Glad I caught all the episodes with a catcher. I can and do enjoy them at my leisure.
I wish that I had every episode. You can't find them anywhere. Great show!
that's such bullshit considering this was broadcast on public television
Plus the show is basically barred from TV anyway.
I was always wondering if that's his real house
Nice cameo by James Earl Jones.
Does anyone have the Frugal Gourmet intro where he is riding around on a red swind bicycle? I really remember this intro when I watched this show as a 3 year old in 1990. Although this might just be the Mandela effect at work.
Remember anything else from the episode? Like what he cooked?
What is the brand of dish ware he mentions in this video?
Caernarfon Castle is in Wales, not England, and it was constructed by Edward I, not Edward the Confessor.
To a lot of people the whole of the UK is England.
@@lokisgodhi Yeah that's a shame.
way ahead of his time
"My hands are clean!" Yeah, right...
Agreed.
bigverybadtom
If one did not personally experience the accusation -
People seem to enjoy "judging", those that do - share one or more of the following:
Low Self-Esteem
Jealousy
Paranoias
Prejudices
Narcissistic Traits
It is important to apply Empathy and a requirement of facts.
💫❤🗝
That's like saying that if we didn't see it, we cannot say the Holocaust happened.
Despite all the rumors, I believe that Michael Jackson was never a child molester. If he were, actual victims would have come out in droves by now. In fact, one man who had been molested by other men in his youth by other celebrities said that MJ never molested him.
Jeff Smith, on the other hand, was accused by a number of men who did not know each other. One person I can believe is a liar, but not a whole bunch of them. My judging is based on reasonable evidence, not any psychological reasons you describe.
Badang BOOM.👍😂
Isn't it great I forgot?!?! LOL
Could someone please remind me which book this recipe is in?
While I do like Jeff Smith ... As a chef, I don’t think that frugal and gourmet go together!
Store bought is not good because they skimp by not putting in the last few cents of meat. People spend so little for the ingredient even much less than
Jeff did 30 years ago.
“Chefs” who need written recipes could use a small boy to remind him .....
He certainly didn't mind trans-fats did he?
Margarine and Crisco?Not sure if that's gourmet or healthy especially margarine. Not butter.
Do they still sale CRISCO today? Hummm!!
I'm looking for the episode on Chinese cooking where Mr. Smith prepares Cream of Sum Yung Gai.
Yes, the Frug liked them young and tender!
all the plaintiffs were in high school. i was 2 foot fuckin' one and i fought them off. sorry you took it up the ass.
same episode he makes pok fwied wice?
🙂👍
I like to watch these episodes to hear Mr. Smith talk about such things as having lots of junior high boys around to "peel his onions". I guess there was too much money to be made for his wife or PBS to blow the whistle on the old pervert.
Frank Pierce nn
I never saw proof he did it
Why not go the whole 9 yards and use butter Jimmy o ?
Roux is also a male redhead LOL
PatCat
Coconut oil and butter are truly healthier that margarine and any corn oils, due to mutating the elements to extend shelf life.
Know this is fact.
I split butter with Coconut Oil or just use Coconut Oil.
PatCat
One whom judges without personal knowledge is equal to that judgement.
PatCat I think at the time this was filmed margarine was more popular then butter for economy reasons and get the time people thought margarine was healthier back then. Now we know better
He can't read your comment because he's dead.
Def VHS, huh?
Doesn't vinegar make the dough taste sour? YM
What happens to us when we die why the question arises Most of the world religious teach that something inside a person continues living after death.Some hold that the dead can harm the living or that God punishes the wicked by condemning them to eternal torment in a fiery hell,what the bible teaches At death,humans cease to exist.The dead are conscious of nothing at all,states Ecclesiastes 9:5 Since the dead cannot know, feel,or experience anything,they cannot harm or help the living Psalm 146:3,4 w3:19and Ecclesiastes 9:6,10 jw.org
Swanson is still my preferred frozen pot pie.
Then try Blake’s. You won’t go back.
Marie Calendar.
Try Mrs, Callender pies.
@@barbarakennedy2667 I have. The crust sucks.
What year was this?
Christopher Shannon
Appx 1984 - 86
"Let me get a whip this time, because I'm a little nervous about getting a nice creamy sauce".
Cue 70s porn film music.
1
Ahhh, Handle’s Watermusic-reminds me of child molesters....I bid you peace...
Oh the Memories ❤
*(We were wrongly told the margarine and corn oil shortenings were healthy back then. Incorrect, actually the original shortening from before gov began quoting standards, early 20th Century was healthier and that was Lard mixed with Coconut Oil.)*
Butter is healthier than margarine and the healthiest now is "Kerry Gold", product of Ireland - cows graze and in green fields of fresh natural greens.
FYI - Replace Crisco with Coconut Oil - same consistency as Crisco Shortening and 99.999% HEALTHIER
Corn oils, margarine, and shortening are all together TOXIC to one's system due to their hacking them to have longer shelf life - mutated elements simply make THEM money and Cost you Money and your Health.
The Fed Gov was not giving the facts, but we're making own investment profits off corn commodity market.
"Can you say Not Wise Men"!?!
ehhhhhhhh
Try to tell someone that isn't educated or naturally bright - they will believe the guy on tv every time. 🙄
Many margarines today, are healthier than butter.
...with James Earl Jones at the end saying his famous line, 'Who he'??
Its funny, but you never hear anyone comment on how dark the studio was. Very similar to CBS programming like Barney Miller, back in the 1970's.