Jeff Smith (TV personality)

Jeff Smith (January 22, 1939 - July 7, 2004) was the author of a dozen best-selling cookbooks and the host of The Frugal Gourmet, a popular American cooking show that began in Tacoma, Washington and aired on PBS from 1988 to 1997. He started off as a United Methodist minister whose first food-related venture was the Chaplain's Pantry, a deli and kitchen supply store near downtown Tacoma, where he offered cooking classes to the public. Soon after launching the show in Tacoma he received a cooking show on a local PBS member station in Seattle. With an appearance on the Phil Donahue show and a move to Chicago, his career took off.

External links

• Evaluation of The Frugal Gourmet at Jumptheshark.com
• Seattle Times obituary (requires membership to logon)
• details of out-of-court settlement of lawsuit
• the smoking gun
• frugal gourmet reaches settlement, not all plaintiffs happy with it