At the height of Jeff Smith’s fame, seven million Americans tuned in to watch his cooking show, The Frugal Gourmet, and he’d sold about 12 million cookbooks. Then in 1997, he was sued by seven men who ...
Jeff Smith was a frequent and influential TV star. Better known as the Frugal Gourmet, he pioneered the food-on-television stream that is now a raging video river. He was also a husband and father of ...
Do you remember “The Frugal Gourmet”? For millions of viewers in the ‘80s and ‘90s, the TV show once conjured images of cheerful thrift, simmering sauces and a charismatic Tacoma chef who made ...