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The Chef Presents

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Genre
cooking show
Country
Australia
Elsewhere
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How it feels

An early Australian cooking show hosted by Willi Koeppen. It taught viewers how to prepare meals in short segments that initially lasted five minutes and later expanded to fifteen minutes.

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What happens

The Chef Presents is an early Australian television series, which aired from 1957 to 1959 on Melbourne station HSV-7, and was hosted by Willi Koeppen, who became a celebrity in Melbourne due to the series. At one point, the series aired in a 5-minute time-slot, later expanding to a 15-minute timeslot at 7:15 p.m. before being moved to 2:15 p.m., and finally aired at 4:00 p.m. In 1976, long after the series ended, Koeppen mysteriously vanished. One of the earliest cooking shows on Australian television, there is little information available on the series, and it is unlikely that any kinescope recordings exist of it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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