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Great Chefs is a franchise of cooking shows and cookbooks that began with thirteen half hour programs produced for PBS entitled Great Chefs of New Orleans. Later series include Great Chefs of San Francisco, Great Chefs of the West, Great Chefs: the Louisiana New Garde, Great Chefs of the East, Great Chefs Great Cities, Great Chefs of Hawaii, Great Chefs of the Caribbean, and Great Chefs of the South, many with their own companion cookbooks.

During the late 1990s the Great Chefs franchise moved to the Discovery Channel, which began the production of two different programs entitled Great Chefs of America and Great Chefs of the World.

The Great Chefs programs are a stark contrast to other popular cooking shows in that they are taped entirely on site in professional kitchens rather than in a production studio. The Great Chefs website boasts that "Great Chefs is the only cooking technique television series". The program usually consists of the preparation of three dishes, prepared by professional chefs with little or no showmanship and with clear, precise instructions. Similar in this respect was the Discovery Channel program World Class Cuisine Which began production after the Great Chefs series.

The program was produced by John Shoup in New Orleans, Louisiana and taped on location around the world. The television series boasts 700 episodes and 3,000 dishes and featured chefs such as Alain Passard, Alfredo Ayala, Alan Zeman, Bill Telepan, Christian Morisset, Claudia Fleming, Emeril Lagasse, Ian Winslade, Jacques Torres, Jasper White, Jean-Louis Neichel, Jean-Philippe Maury, Julian Serrano, Eric Ripert, Mark Miller, Raymond Blanc, Richard Chamberlain, Rick Tramonto, Robert Hughes and Steve Young.

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http://www.greatchefs.com/

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