Definately. He was as funny in person as he is on the show and was very down to earth. Very much a guy next door type.
Random trivia...
The house he cooks in on the show used to be in a real house in Atlanta until they were found to be violating zoning for that area. He built a replica on a soundstage with the first royalty check from his first cookbook.
W is a chiropractor in real life.
He used to produce television commercials before Good Eats and was a cinematographer before that.
Everyone who is on the crew has to be on the show in some form. The only actor is Chuck his next door neighbor, everyone else is a relative or a crew member.
They make all their own props. He said the prop guys compete to see who can make things cheaper.
His own kitchen is tiny according to him.
He went to culinary school to learn how to cook for the show. Him and his wife came up with the idea and went with it. He raised a couple hundred thousand $$ and created two pilot episodes. He knew the idea would never sell on paper. Food Network wouldn't even watch a second of the pilots and he was about to ink a deal with the discovery channel when a bigwig at the food network happen to see a clip on the Kodak site.(they had shot on film and Kodak had it as an example) The Food Network exec loved it and the rest is history. His is the only show on the Food Network that isn't done in house. They don't commision shows.
Random trivia...
The house he cooks in on the show used to be in a real house in Atlanta until they were found to be violating zoning for that area. He built a replica on a soundstage with the first royalty check from his first cookbook.
W is a chiropractor in real life.
He used to produce television commercials before Good Eats and was a cinematographer before that.
Everyone who is on the crew has to be on the show in some form. The only actor is Chuck his next door neighbor, everyone else is a relative or a crew member.
They make all their own props. He said the prop guys compete to see who can make things cheaper.
His own kitchen is tiny according to him.
He went to culinary school to learn how to cook for the show. Him and his wife came up with the idea and went with it. He raised a couple hundred thousand $$ and created two pilot episodes. He knew the idea would never sell on paper. Food Network wouldn't even watch a second of the pilots and he was about to ink a deal with the discovery channel when a bigwig at the food network happen to see a clip on the Kodak site.(they had shot on film and Kodak had it as an example) The Food Network exec loved it and the rest is history. His is the only show on the Food Network that isn't done in house. They don't commision shows.
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