BOSTON, MA, /UCWE/ - To celebrate his first food sites' first anniversary, Boston-based food writer TC Kirkham’s website, “The Moonsault Chef”, is launching a new sister website dedicated to television cooking shows.
The Complete Cooking Show Compendium, or CCSC.TV, is striving to be to television cooking shows what the Internet Movie Database, or IMDB, has become for movie fans.
“There’s precious little information out there about the hundreds of TV cooking shows, “ says the sites’ webmaster, TC Kirkham. “I wanted to do a section about shows for my food site, “The Moonsault Chef”. But when I began to do the research, I realized that this project was going to be far too large to just be a section of that site. So I created CCSC.TV to help fill the void of information.”
CCSC.TV has information on over 400 shows thus far, but, as Kirkham says, it’s far from complete.
“We’re looking to foodies, to tv show fans, and anyone else who wishes to contribute to do so. This is the kind of project that can only benefit from our visitor input. I’m sure I’ve probably missed as many shows as I’ve included, and I’m sure not all the information is one hundred percent correct. And that’s where our visitors, my fellow foodies, come in. Anyone who visits and finds that CCSC.TV is missing a show they know about, or that some information is missing or needs a correction, I hope that they’ll submit the information so that I can add it to the database. And I'm always adding new information that I find myself as well.”
Kirkham says he started the site out of a sense of frustration about the lack of cohesive information about TV cooking shows.
“Whenever I’d see a new show, or read about an old one that I remembered, or saw something about a show I’d never heard of that sounded interesting, I’d try and find information about it, and inevitably, unless it was something currently on Food Network or currently in production for PBS, it was virtually impossibly to find anything out about the show. So it started as research, and ended up becoming a labor of love, and I hope other TV cooking show fans will find it useful and work with us to make it the best it can possibly be."
Kirkham patterned the site on the IMDB, but on a smaller scale.
“I use the IMDB a lot. I also use TV Tome (now TV.Com) a lot. And these sites and others helped contribute to the ideas I had to make this a universal database of cooking shows. Right now, most of the shows listed are from the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia. We're just getting started, and so the site is in it's infancy. But I hope people from around the world will contribute their shows, and help make CCSC.TV become for TV cooking shows what the IMDB has become for movies.”
The Complete Cooking Show Compendium can be seen at
http://ccsc.tv Kirkham’s original food site, “The Moonsault Chef”, with hundreds of links useful to all foodies, including one of, if not the, largest collection of newspaper food section links on the net, can be seen at
http://themoonsaultchef.com.
