Mr. Food
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Art Ginsburg, commonly known as Mr. Food, is a television chef and best selling author of cookbooks who emphasizes simple recipes.[citation needed] He is the originator of "quick & easy cooking" who, for the past 30+ years, has paved the way for TV food personalities who have followed. With his enthusiastic style, Mr. Food specializes in practical food preparation techniques, using readily available ingredients. He extols an "anybody can do it" philosophy of cooking.
Art Ginsburg was originally a butcher[1] who, in 1975, turned his personal flair for acting into a local television food program at WRGB in Schenectady, New York. Since then he's proven a prolific writer with more than 50 cookbooks to his name and has been syndicated on television, with 4 to 6 million viewers daily.[citation needed]
Besides his passion for food, Art has a passion for helping others. He is a co-host of the annual Variety Kids Telethon in Buffalo, New York, to raise funds for Children's Hospital. He is a diabetes advocate[citation needed], with 3 of his cookbooks, published by the American Diabetes Association, devoted to recipes for people with diabetes.[citation needed] One of these has also been published in Spanish.[citation needed]
For his other cookbooks, he has teamed with such notable publishers as Wm. Morrow & Co., HarperCollins, Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises and Oxmoor House, a division of Southern Progress Corporation and Time Warner.[citation needed] [2]
The 90-second Mr. Food television spots are featured on local TV newscasts daily across the U.S.[citation needed]
Art Ginsburg lives in a suburb of Fort Lauderdale with his wife Ethel.[citation needed]
Mr. Food's signature phrase is "Oh, it's so good!" and, as spoken by Mr. Food, it has been recognized as one of only a handful of sound trademarks registered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Rempel, Mary K. (September 01, 2011). "A chat with Art Ginsburg, Mr. Food himself". Flint Journal. http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2011/09/whats_cooking_with_art_ginsbur.html. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
- ^ VP, Communications. "[1]." Mr. Food website. Accessed February 26, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-02-26.
