Although the assessment showed many issues regarding food safety
on television cooking shows, room for improvement was easily identified by the researchers.
The ubiquity
of television cooking shows, the influence of the adult foodie generation, and the proliferation of professional and amateur cooking schools have made learning to cook competently and creatively a central part of young people's schooling.
On a recent Saturday in May, more than 30 million households in China watched
a television cooking show called Taste Life.
Immigration has resulted in more ethnic restaurants while food blogs and
television cooking shows have inspired more home cooking using all kinds of chile peppers.
Maggie Beer Products was built up over decades by Maggie Beer, who developed a national profile through a series of cookbooks,
television cooking shows and as a regular guest judge on the Ten Network's Master Chef program.
In fact, recent studies show that
television cooking shows may pose a threat to viewers, if they mimic the unsafe behaviors that the TV chefs are demonstrating.
Television cooking shows are an important resource for home cooks, but if these shows fail to model recommended food safety measures, it may lead to poor practices among consumers.
Likewise, in a poll of television viewers, 50 % of respondents watched
some television cooking shows, and 57 % reported purchasing items based on those shows.
Not unlike Martha Rosler's canonical 1975 video Semiotics of the Kitchen — in which the gendered codes of
a television cooking show stand in as analogues for artmaking — Bishton's untitled bread - baking piece represented a complex mixing of art and (mediated) life, albeit one without didactic narration.