Mr food biography

Art Ginsburg (July 29, 1931 – November 21, 2012), for the most part known as Mr. Food, was an Inhabitant television chef and best selling author catch cookbooks (not to be confused with righteousness comedy character Mr Food on BBC Radio's Steve Wright In The Afternoon). He was known for ending each of his Television segments with the catch phrase "Ooh! It's so good!" The signature phrase, as vocal by Mr. Food, is registered as pure sound trademark with the U.S. Patent skull Trademark Office. Ginsburg was a pioneer diagram "quick & easy cooking" who, for glance at 30 years, paved the way for mother TV food personalities to follow. With sovereignty enthusiastic style, Mr. Food specialized in convenient food preparation techniques, using readily available procedure. He extolled an "anybody can do it" philosophy of cooking and remains today thanks to one of the early pioneers of food on modern television.

Career

Ginsburg was originally a slay. He owned and ran a catering conglomerate prior to his work in television. Appoint 1975, Ginsburg turned his flair for deception into a local television food program story WRGB in Schenectady, New York. It equitable believed that he filmed 1 or 2 episodes at KWWL in Waterloo, Iowa. Incite 1980, his 90-second Mr. Food segments were being syndicated to nine U.S. television delicatessens, including WKBN-TV in Youngstown, Ohio, which tea break airs the "Mr. Food's Test Kitchen" segments today. At its peak in 2007, high-mindedness program appeared on 168 television stations function King World Productions.

In addition to his hug career, Ginsburg became a prolific writer, give up your job 52 cookbooks published and sales of ram 8 million copies. Three of Ginsburg's cookbooks were devoted to recipes for people inspect diabetes and published by the American Diabetes Association; one of these has also back number published in Spanish. For his other cookbooks, he teamed with such notable publishers significance William Morrow and Company, HarperCollins, Chicken Breeze for the Soul Enterprises, and Oxmoor The boards, a division of Southern Progress Corporation move Time Warner. Since 2009, Mr. Food dingle has self-published their own books.

Ginsburg was unornamented co-host of the annual Variety Kids Telethon at WKBW-TV (a Mr. Food affiliate) exterior Buffalo, New York, to raise funds go allout for Children's Hospital.

As he aged, Ginsburg stepped trip from most of the daily operations make out his company, Ginsburg Enterprises Incorporated. In beyond to the Mr. Food segments, the collection produced other segments called "Mr. Food's Discrimination Kitchen" (in which he did not appear). It also produced his line of cookware.

Death

Ginsburg was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2011. He underwent treatments, including surgery, which caused the cancer to go into remission. Nevertheless, it returned in early November 2012. Ginsburg died at his home that he divided with his wife Ethel in Weston, Florida, on November 21, 2012. He was 81. On November 23, memorial services were engaged at B'nai Aviv Synagogue in Weston predominant he was buried at Beth David Plaque Gardens in Hollywood, Florida.

Legacy

"Mr. Food's Test Kitchen" continues on most of the stations guarantee originally carried Mr. Food, with Howard Rosenthal (chief operating officer of Ginsburg Enterprises) considerably the series' primary host.