Great Chefs is a franchise of 656 televised cooking shows ( +13 cookbooks), that began with thirteen half-hour programs produced for PBS nationally, entitled "Great Chefs of New Orleans" by John Beyer and John Shoup in New Orleans.
Unlike other cooking shows, the Great Chefs programs were recorded entirely on location around the world, in professional restaurant kitchens, rather than in production studios, and shot in film format.
The television series features over 1,008 chefs including Alain Passard in Paris, Bobby Flay, Daniel Boulud, Michael Lomonaco, & Eric Ripert in NYC.
Patrick O'Connell outside DC, Emeril Lagasse, & Susan Spicer in New Orleans, and Albert Roux in London in 51 countries.
The Great Chefs television programs still can be found today on independent broadcast stations and cable networks in the US, as well as on streaming platforms like Amazon Prime, Hulu, Roku, Twitch and Hungary OTT.