A cooking show is a popular TV genre that focuses on the considerably less-than-popular chore of cooking. Set in a kitchen studio, a typical cooking show demonstrates the flawless preparation of a dish by a celebrity chef, who spends most of the show doing a variety of activities, including frying food, chopping food, and providing the audience with knowledge and advice - about food - that no one will remember because they're too busy drooling over all the close-ups of him frying food.