16 Cancelled Food Network Shows You Forgot You Loved

Emeril Lagasse came to Food Network in 1995 with his cooking show Essence of Emeril. The chef offered recipes in experimental Creole, AKA the "New New Orleans" style he had become known for in the early '90s. Around this time, he'd made a name for himself at the legendary New Orleans restaurant Commander's Palace, his own restaurant Emeril's, and through his cookbook, Emeril's New New Orleans Cooking.

He made even more of a splash, however, in 1997 with his energetic live show—which also featured a studio audience and house band, as well as musical and celebrity guests—Emeril Live.

This is the show that spawned the inimitable catchphrases Lagasse would use when seasoning his food: "Bam," "oh yeah, baby!" and "kick it up a notch!"

If you need more Emeril in your life, he's now partnered with a cruise ship, taking food-filled journeys through the seas.

In an age of speedy time-lapse cooking videos, it's almost difficult to imagine the premise of Cooking Live with Sara Moulton—in which the former executive chef of Gourmet Magazine did, in fact, cook live on the air, taking calls from viewers as she went—but the show was incredibly successful when it ran from 1996 to 2002.

Moulton went on to hosts "Sara's Weeknight Meals" on public television and is the author the "Kitchen Wise" Associated Press column. She released her most recent cookbook, Sara Moulton's Home Cooking 101: How to Make Everything Taste Better, a few years back.

Host Ming Tsai actually began his television cooking career while filling in for Sara Moulton during a week she was absent. His own show, East Meets West, premiered not too long after in 1998—the same year, incidentally, that his Wellesley, MA, restaurant Blue Ginger earned a nomination for Best New Restaurant from the James Beard Foundation.

East Meets West went off the air in 2003, but Tsai went on to host Simply Ming on American Public Television since then, and you can check out some of the most recent episodes here.

Boyish, charming, British Jamie Oliver entered the kitchens and hearts of Americans when his BBC-produced show The Naked Chef first aired in America on the Food Network in 1999. The "naked" in the title, to the chagrin of some, referred not to Oliver but to the way he prepared food: simple, yet rich, meals involving minimal effort.

Oliver quickly became a food world sex symbol. Though The Naked Chef ended in 2001, it spawned several other series throughout the years, including Food Network's own Jamie at Home later on.

In the last few years, Oliver has dedicated a great deal of effort on ending childhood obesity—and was made an Honorary Fellow by England's Royal College of General Practitioners for doing so—most recently by focusing on the problem in a 2015 documentary called Jamie's Sugar Rush.

The legendary chef had been on television before, of course, but it was beginning on the Food Network in 2000 that he had his very own self-titled show. For five seasons, Puck gave insights into his daily life and traveled around the country exploring different regional cuisines, while also cooking and sharing secrets behind the dishes that made him famous.

Once, he even fulfilled a lifelong dream by welcoming the legendary Julia Child onto his show to help him cook Guinea Fowl. Wolfgang Puck added a little bit of luxury to viewer's lives, not to mention killer cooking techniques.

Puck won an Emmy for the series in 2002, and eventually hosted or appeared on several more cooking shows. Puck's restaurants continue to thrive the world over...and no, you probably still can't get a table at Spago.

Reality show Ace of Cakes followed baker Duff Goldman's Baltimore cakery Charm City Cakes as he and his team went above and beyond to create utterly amazing cakes for a variety of events each week, sometimes in a matter of days. The storylines focused not just on cake creation and construction, but small business ownership, interpersonal interactions with the team and clients.

Combining Goldman's backgrounds in metal-smithing and classic pastry-making, these cakes had (and continue to have) everything: sound, movement, smoke. Legend has it the bakery even dreamed up a life-size baby elephant cake once upon a time.

While Ace of Cakes itself ended in 2011 after 10 seasons, Charm City Cakes is alive and kicking in Baltimore and its newest location in Los Angeles. Goldman still appears on a variety of Food Network baking shows, like Worst Bakers in America and the Holiday Baking Championship.

Now this is a show for people who love to eat, featuring where Food Network stars and celebrity chefs love to go on their days off, from breakfast foods to hamburgers to pizza, and more. The restaurants weren't just luxury establishments in big cities, but also mom and pop shops in tiny corners of America, well-loved independent bakeries, and really any place that just had good food.