{"id":7346,"date":"2015-04-06T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2015-04-06T16:23:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:23:05","slug":"celebrity-chefs-get-cooking-on-nbc-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/04\/06\/celebrity-chefs-get-cooking-on-nbc-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity chefs get cooking on NBC 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7348\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/04\/06\/celebrity-chefs-get-cooking-on-nbc-5\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7348\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7348\" alt=\"Rick Bayless\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Rick-Bayless-1024x696.png\" width=\"780\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Rick-Bayless-1024x696.png 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Rick-Bayless-300x204.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Rick-Bayless-150x102.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Rick-Bayless-400x272.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Rick-Bayless-800x544.png 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Rick-Bayless-200x136.png 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Rick-Bayless.png 1164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Rick Bayless<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chefs from some of Chicago\u2019s hottest restaurants soon will be dishing it out on NBC-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com \" target=\"_blank\">WMAQ-Channel 5\u2019s <\/a>11 a.m. weekday newscast.<\/p>\n<p>Starting April 15, they\u2019ll appear with news anchors Stefan Holt and Marion Brooks several times a month to show viewers how to prepare their most popular entrees.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Frank Whittaker, station manager and vice president of news at NBC 5, said a new kitchen has been built in the studio to accommodate the chefs. \u201cWe\u2019re hooking up the cameras and lights now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>First up will be Rick Bayless, world renowned chef of Chicago\u2019s Frontera Grill, and star of the PBS series \"Mexico: One Plate at a Time,\" based on his book of the same name.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7347\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Wayne-Johnson.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7347\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7347\" alt=\"Wayne Johnson\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Wayne-Johnson-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Wayne-Johnson-150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Wayne-Johnson-57x57.jpg 57w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Wayne-Johnson-72x72.jpg 72w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Wayne-Johnson-114x114.jpg 114w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Wayne-Johnson-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new feature follows the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvspy\/lifestyle-contributor-wayne-johnson-out-at-wmaq\/145296\" target=\"_blank\">departure<\/a> last week of Wayne Johnson after nine years at NBC 5 as a free-lance contributor of lifestyle segments, including cooking and home entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never thought of myself as a chef . . . just an everyday Joe who tried to convince a lot of other everyday Joes that cooking and entertaining wasn't that difficult,\u201d Johnson wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10153344273380695&amp;set=a.46433350694.71889.743395694&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.<\/a> \u201cIt was a unique position for the station to support and I'll always be grateful for having had the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>In other news on TV\u2019s eat beat, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wttw.com\" target=\"_blank\">WTTW.com<\/a> this week will premiere <a href=\"http:\/\/interactive.wttw.com\/foodphiles\/episodes\/profit-schmofit\" target=\"_blank\">\"FoodPhiles,\"<\/a> a short-form digital series profiling Chicago area restaurateurs, chefs, barristas and other culinary professionals.\u00a0The 13-part series launches in its entirety Thursday on a mobile-optimized website, <a href=\"http:\/\/interactive.wttw.com\/foodphiles\/episodes\/profit-schmofit\" target=\"_blank\">wttw.com\/foodphiles<\/a>, which also will include stories and recipes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood is obviously a necessary and enjoyable thing,\u201d producer Dan Protess said in a statement. \u201cBut beyond that, it offers a great window into culture, history, and even politics. By talking with these chefs, I learned so much about our city and its diverse communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chefs from some of Chicago\u2019s hottest restaurants soon will be dishing it out on NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5\u2019s 11 a.m. weekday newscast. Starting April 15, they\u2019ll appear with news anchors Stefan Holt and Marion Brooks several times a month to show viewers how to prepare their most popular entrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7346"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7355,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions\/7355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}