Art Ginsburg ( Mr. Food )

Art Ginsburg, commonly known as Mr. Food, is a television chef and best selling author of cookbooks who emphasizes simple recipes. He is the originator of "quick & easy cooking" who, for the past 30+ years, has paved the way for TV food personalities who have followed. With his enthusiastic style, Mr. Food specializes in practical food preparation techniques, using readily available ingredients. He extols an "anybody can do it" philosophy of cooking.

Art Ginsburg was originally a butcher who, in 1975, turned his personal flair for acting into a local television food program at WRGB in Schenectady, New York. Since then he's proven a prolific writer with more than 50 cookbooks to his name and has been syndicated on television, with 4 to 6 million viewers daily.