#TBT For a special Thanksgiving episode of Throwback Thursday, let’s throwback to when I was a regular on HGTV’s TIPical Mary Ellen. After spending hours cooking the perfect bird, it can be such a shame to see it hacked to bits. I showed Mary Ellen Pinkham my tips and tricks for carving a turkey for… Read More →
#TBT Since Halloween is this Friday, here’s a throwback to one of my favorite costumes I’ve ever worn. I got to be a luchador for a hot second a few years back…tight pants and all.
#TBT Here I am at the turn of the millennium working as a chef on a local news station. I made cheese ravioli and a vegetable sauce along with Tim Sherno, now a reporter for 5 Eyewitness News, and Alix Kendall, host of FOX9‘s morning show. While everything else seems outdated, we’re lucky that ravioli is… Read More →
#TBT Back in 2001, Minneapolis was the host city for the annual IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) conference. Marcus Samuelsson was chef and owner at Aquavit in Minneapolis at the time. Aquavit hosted a fantasy dinner to celebrate the end of event with a menu put together by Marcus, Tetsuya Wakuda and the late… Read More →
#TBT From the video vault, this is on one of my first demo reels when most of my on-camera experiences were my appearances on a local news station. We did a quick live product mention for a large appliance store. While Tim Sherno read the copy, I portrayed the lovely Mrs. Cleaver. It truly was… Read More →
#TBT Here’s another gem from the archives. It’s a pilot I shot in 2001 for a show called Now You’re Cooking. It was a food-centric show for a home shopping channel. The setup is late-night talk show themed complete with a band, monologue and a man-on-the-street segment. After seeing this after all these years, I still don’t understand why… Read More →
#TBT Amazing…this was a show that I was working on with my pals Drew & Barbara, the production team at Twin Cities Public Television, and my friends at Cooks of Crocus Hill here in the Twin Cities. This is from 16 years ago. Another sizzle reel from the basement. What a mess I was on-camera,… Read More →
#TBT Over a decade ago I took almost every opportunity I could get to be on camera. In the end I gained a lot of experience and learned from a lot of mistakes. Some of the projects I worked on were real Ishtars. Here is an example. Enjoy this sizzle reel I shot for a country music video… Read More →
#TBT When I decided I wanted to do television some of my first appearances were on local news shows as a food expert. Here is one of those appearances from 1997 where I demonstrated how to make a lamb and raita dish on Everyday Living, a Twin Cities-based morning show. You might recognize the host… Read More →
#TBT I recently cleaned out my basement and stumbled upon boxes filled with literally hundreds of VHS tapes. These are just too good not to share, so this is the first in a weekly series of Throwback Thursday videos. This clip comes from a video I made all the way back in 2001 called “Simply… Read More →
