Friedman Paul Erhardt

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Friedman Paul Erhardt (born November 5, 1943 in Stuttgart , † October 26, 2007 in Upper Black Eddy , Pennsylvania; known as Chef Tell ) was a German-American television chef .

Life

Erhardt was the son of a newspaper owner. His nickname Tell was derived from a school performance of William Tell , in which he played the leading role. He completed his culinary training in various European restaurants. With the West German team he was able to win a gold medal at the Cooking Olympiad.

In 1972 he met his second wife, Janet Louise Nicoletti, a former Miss Philadelphia, with whom he moved to Philadelphia . He received American citizenship in 1986 at the suggestion of Richard Nixon . Most recently he was married to Bunny Erhardt for 19 years in his third marriage. He had a son who lives in Germany.

TV chef career

As a television chef, Erhardt first appeared in 1974 on a regional station from Philadelphia in the program Dialing for Dollars . He gained greater fame through his cooking section in the US-wide Evening Magazine and through appearances on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee . He then worked for QVC , and he got his own show on PBS (In the Kitchen With Chef Tell) . In the last years of his life he taught at the restaurant school at Walnut Hill College in Philadelphia.

He was one of the first chefs to appear regularly on American television. Erhardt, whose features included a corpulent build and a strong German accent, was regularly the subject of parodies, for example on Saturday Night Live . He claimed himself to have been the template for the chef on the Muppet Show .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chef Tell dies at US home.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Caymanian Compass . Obituary dated October 31, 2007. Accessed September 15, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.caycompass.com  
  2. ↑ a b Chef Tell, Who Turned Kitchen Skill Into TV Fame, Dies at 63 . In: The New York Times . Obituary dated November 5, 2007. Accessed September 15, 2010.
  3. ^ Friedman Paul Erhardt, 63; Television's 'Chef Tell'. In: The Washington Post. Obituary dated November 4, 2007. Accessed September 15, 2010.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Erhardt, Friedman Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chef Tell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American TV chef
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2007
Place of death Upper Black Eddy , Pennsylvania