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Food is a subject that draws a lot of interest and it's present on all sorts of media as television, books, magazines and radio. It wouldn't be different with the Internet. There is a lot of food content online, from professional recipes' websites to individual blogs about food. Recently video has been gaining importance on the Internet, consequently online cooking shows and videos are arising. The Web 2.0 allows different kinds of content also produced by the users. To have a cooking show or to record one recipe and show it to the world, you don't have to be a celebrity

Traditional Television From Wikipedia: "A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, usually a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience through the food's preparation showing all intermediate stages of cooking."

New media Traditional Content Online Martha Stewart Food Channel Network On these websites the content aired on TV is made available online. Food and Wine (producing video online as a plus to the magazine)

"Non-famous" people shows On these we see people cooking from their home and showing some tips and real-kitchen attempts. Videoblogs as a tool that facilitate the technical side.

Start Cooking with Kathy Maister www.startcooking.com A stop-montion language with a narration - we probably wouldn't see that on TV Clean design and use of graphics and editing

Crash Test Kitchen www.crashtestkitchen.com British couple cooking from their home. They fight during the recipes a lot Long videos Recipes not always work

Niche inside the food niche Chocolate Television A video website dedicated to chocolate, with recipes, news, and other topics of interest Freshtopia.net A blog about food, sustainability and the environment. It uses the traditional television format and brings extra information about the food, such as some historical background

Variety cooking videos websites Taste TV tastetv.com - offers more than food content, also design, fashion and lifestyle (I believe this is a weakness because it becomes a little hard to understand exactly what the website is about) Cooking up a story - stories about people and food Imcooked - cook it. film it. share it

Real Meals Realmeals.com - lights, camera, cook!

Different channels:

 - yourmeals
 - promeals
 - realspirits
 - healthymeals

Navigation is easier Playlist besides the screen Some editing on the videos and overlay information about the recipe The same opening graphics for all the videos give a feeling of unity, of a TV channel Tips Mix of chefs' recipes with users' recipes