Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ready... Set... Cook!

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The result was Keep per WP:SNOW. (non-admin closure) MaxnaCarter (talk) 03:38, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ready... Set... Cook!

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Deprodded with one source added, but I struggled to find more Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 15:24, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 15:24, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep -- As noted in the PROD removal text but not conveyed here, in addition to the book source which I added, there is a Chicago Tribune article that doesn't have online access, which I can see from the brief google preview snippet is a review of the series. "LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! (AND SOME COOKING TOO)" Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1997." This is a second RS, meeting the GNG. matt91486 (talk) 15:50, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Matt91486: The Tribune article consists of one-paragraph previews of 20 different cooking shows on TV at the time. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:53, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete mention in a review of 20 upcoming cooking shows is not enough to show notability, and the other source is not enough to pass GNG on its own.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:32, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep after more sources found by Cunard. WikiVirusC^(talk) 13:52, 28 May 2022 (UTC) Comment - A redirect with slight merge like summary to Ready Steady Cook can be alternative. Show was on for 6 years someone might search for it.[reply]

Okamoto, David (October 11, 1995). "New show turns cooking into fun and games". The Dallas Morning News. p. 4F – via NewsBank: Access World News(subscription required). 426 words on the show.
Robichaux, Mark (June 11, 1996). "`READY, SET, COOK!' FINDS NEW RECIPE FOR TV SUCCESS". Rocky Mountain News. Colorado. p. 6D – via NewsBank(subscription required). 337 words about the show.
Fuller, Janet Rausa (May 2, 2001). "Ainsley is `Ready'". Chicago Sun-Times - FOOD. p. 1 – via NewsBank(subscription required). 451 words about revamped show and new host(and mixed reactions about him from fans).

I'm still looking for other sources, preferably not behind paywall. I am leaning keep right now if not merge. WikiVirusC^(talk) 17:38, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
1. Robichaux, Mark (1996-06-07). "Chefs Duel to Rustle Up Meals In Minutes on TV Game Show". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  The article notes: "It's a new game show on cable's TV Food Network called "Ready, Set, Cook!" The half-hour, twice-daily show has turned a common culinary conundrum -- what to cook when the refrigerator is bare -- into a bona fide hit for the upstart network. In each episode, two contestants from the studio audience are given $10 each to buy an assortment of groceries, no matter how eclectic. Then two chefs -- usually prominent professionals from well-known kitchens -- go whisk to whisk to create a meal from the groceries. Mr. Lomonaco's Velveeta, for example, wound up in Warm Veal Sage Salad with Eggplant Casserole. In twin kitchens, contestants begin by dumping their sack of groceries onto the counter. Chefs don aprons and a 20-minute clock starts ticking. Each dish is judged by the audience, which votes with placards bearing either a green pepper or a tomato. (Presentation is all; there isn't time for tastings.) ... The TV Food Network will replace a key ingredient in the U.S. show when it begins taping next season's shows in July. Sissy Biggers, host of a talk show on the Lifetime channel, will relieve the chatty Robin Young."
2. Salkin, Allen (2013). From Scratch: The Uncensored History of the Food Network. New York: Berkley Books. pp. 153–154. ISBN 978-0-425-27286-2. Retrieved 2022-05-28 – via Google Books.
  The book notes: "Next, in what was a key addition to the broadcast schedule, Jeff approved the network's purchase of the rights to the British show Ready, Steady, Cook. Two chefs were paired with two amateurs, supplied with a grocery bag of food, and given twenty minutes to cook something. ... Food Network Americanized the name to Ready ... Set ... Cook! and rented a studio large enough for an audience. Rounding up the crowd was not easy. Popular shows that taped in New York, such as The Ricki Lake Show and Late Night with David Letterman, had no trouble, but getting bodies in seats for a game show on a network few people watched was a challenge. Even after hiring audience-wrangling companies, they regularly came up short. One Food Network staffer often had to hit the sidewalks around the studio rounding up homeless people by promising them they could eat the food when shooting was done. Robin Young hosted Ready ... Set ... Cook! during the first season. She would stand hip to hip with the competitors and engage them in banter while they tried to cook ... The show's success marked a cultural breakthrough. On the 1996 Thanksgiving episode of Friends, then the top-rated NBC comedy, Chandler, who was ... They'd been noticed by Hollywood!—even if their show was being used as a symbol of a pathetic life."
3. Okamoto, David (1995-10-11). "New show turns cooking into fun and games". The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  The article notes: "The TV Food Network's Ready . . . Set . . . Cook! - which debuted last week and airs every night at 7 and 11 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. - is an American variation on a wildly successful British series called Ready Steady Cook. Hosted by Robin Young, the half-hour program pits two chefs against each other to see who can throw together the most inventive and edible dishes from a well-stocked cupboard of staples and a $10 bag of groceries purchased by a randomly chosen audience member. The shopper gets to double as a sous chef. ... On any night, the show succeeds or fails on the chemistry between the chefs and the shoppers."
4. Heller, Ann (2001-04-04). "Springfield's Gibson Whips Up a Win on Food Network – Cincinnati-Based Chef Appears on 'Ready . . . Set . . . Cook!'". Dayton Daily News. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  The article notes: "... the Food Network's Ready . . . Set . . . Cook! game show tonight. The revamped series, which premiered this week, pits Gibson in matches with chef Shirley Fong Torres of San Francisco. He won three of the four events, claiming the "Golden Toque" - but says he can't remember what he cooked. ... For each show the two chefs are given a tray of ingredients and given 18 minutes to make as many finished dishes as possible - while the host constantly interrupts them with questions."
5. Ervolino, Bill (1997-06-08). "Ready, Sweat…Cook!". The Record. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  The article notes: "The good news: Unlike "Wheel," in which I had to undergo three rigorous hours of written and oral tests, competing against 170 other hopefuls, all "Ready, Set, Cook!" required was that I fill out a short questionnaire and explain why I wanted to be on the show. ... For the uninitiated, this game show, based on the BBC series, "Ready, Steady, Cook!," pits two accomplished chefs against each other in a 20-minute cooking competition. The goal: to make an entire meal out of the $10 or less in groceries chosen by the two contestants."
6. Fuller, Janet Rausa (2001-05-02). "Ainsley is 'Ready'". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  The article notes: "Ainsley Harriott, Biggers' successor as host of the recently re-vamped Food Network series, Ready. . . Set . . . Cook!, is perky like Scotch bonnets are hot. The saucy, 6-feet-something Harriott flirts with the show's female contestants (and even some of the men), sings as shamelessly as a Broadway-bound starlet and every so often_when shaking a hot pan of beet greens, say_thrusts his hips to the beat. He's the host with the most, and then some. ... In reviving Ready . . . Set . . . Cook! with the enthusiastic Brit at the helm, producers have nipped and tucked accordingly, punching up the set with color and adding Pop Cuizine, a trivia bit directed at the dueling chef contestants. ... The show's premise is the same: ..."
7. Less significant coverage:
  1. Klasne, Catherine (1997-08-28). "Ready, Set, Go on the Road – Cooking Game Show Host Follows 2 Lifetime Interests". The Daytona Beach News-Journal. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
    The article notes: "Sissy Biggers, host of the TV Food Network's Ready, Set, Cook! follows a recipe for success that combines elements of her lifelong interest in cooking and a career as a television professional.She isn't the first host of the unique cooking game show, but, after a one-year stint, Biggers' perky personality and appearance have become indelibly associated with Ready, Set, Cook!"
  2. Smoron, Paige; Cruze, Tom (1998-09-09). "'Ready... Set... Cook!' - Chicago chefs face off in popular game show". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
    The article notes: "They were there to see their favorite game show from the Food Network, which has a cult following among gourmet groupies: "Ready . . . Set . . . Cook!" Host Sissy Biggers was bringing a live version of the show to Chicago for the first time_not for broadcast, but for the fans."
  3. Scourtes, Mary D. (2000-09-28). "Players defend cooking prowess". The Tampa Tribune. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
    The article notes: "John Lynch of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is a big basher on the football field, but he's almost bashful in the kitchen. "I can't cook, but I like to grill," he said before joining Marty Blitz, chef-owner of Mise en Place, onstage for a Tampa version of the Food Network's "Ready ... Set ... Cook!""
  4. "Celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott serves up fresh eco-cooking ideas". Al Bawaba. 2008-12-10. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
    The article notes: "This in turn led to Ready Steady Cook and his TV career took off. Ready Steady Cook started airing in 1994. Sixteen series and well over a thousand episodes later, it celebrated twelve happy years in 2006. When he became series host in 2000, the show gained a new lease of life and extra viewers. During 2009, the show will approach two thousand episodes."
  5. Silva, Jill Wendholt (2001-08-09). "TV Waistland". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
    The article notes: "Based on a BBC series, Ready, Set, Cook is pure entertainment. British host Ainsley Harriott introduces two chefs: Ludovic, a French chef with a great attitude who hails from Los Angeles, and Paula, who drawls all the way from Savannah."
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Ready... Set... Cook! to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 08:14, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the citations listed by Cunard. DonaldD23 talk to me 18:02, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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