Cooking with the stars

Lisa Loeb and Dweezil Zappa aren't the first two names to pop up when you're think of potential hosts for a cooking show. The photogenic real-life couple have both had some success in the music world, but neither is a professionally trained chef.

That's OK, says the Food Network, which has been making an aggressive effort to include programming that's as entertaining as it is instructional. Operating under the credo that you don't necessarily have to have a degree in culinary arts to be able to show people how to saute and flambe, the Food Network has added the rocking duo to its stable of Emeril, Bobby Flay, Iron Chefs and the rest.

"We still have very high-end French chefs in our programming," says Kathleen Finch, Food Network's vice president of prime time programming. "But we also have a lot of shows where the cooks aren't intimidating and don't pretend to be anything other than what they are--people who love cooking, despite where they learned to do their cooking.

"Wolfgang Puck and Bobby Flay have spent years in culinary school, but they're not the only ones who can cook. The bottom line is we would never put anyone on our air who was not very good at what they did."

As for Zappa and Loeb, who knew they even watched the Food Network, much less cooked for themselves? Finch certainly was pleasantly surprised when the camera- friendly couple approached the media company to do a segment on one of their other shows.

"They came in and said they really love to cook and fantasized about having their own cooking show," Finch says. "They're self-proclaimed major foodies. They ideally wanted to do a show that gave them the opportunity to learn new [culinary] skills. They were thinking it would be a one-off show, but it it turned into a series."

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