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In 2004, Jeff hosted a combination cooking demo and book signing event for Borders Books. He was promoting his newly published cook book "Man in the Kitchen - Recipes from Nine Years of Television."

In 2003 Jeff hosted the Big Brother - Big Sisters Club Holiday event for Pillsbury and Albertsons at Universal Studios.

Jeff hosted several KVCR Pledge Drive specials. These were live broadcasts in which Jeff prepared recipes such as Bananas Foster and Barbecued chicken.

At the Great Indoors, Home Design Center, Jeff hosted several cooking demonstrations

Jeff hosted the "Chef Stage" at Riverside's Orange Blossom Festival in 2002. He was a guest chef in 2001.

Jeff wrote a monthly article for West Coast Magazine between 1995 and 2000.

Jeff Baker grew up in the Pacific Northwest - mostly in Spokane and Seattle. Both of his parents were in the radio industry. His father Paul started out as an announcer before settling into the buiness side. His mother Beverly started her career at age 17 co-hosting an all request top-40 show. In the 1960s she hosted "The Women at Home." By the 1970's she was breaking ground in Seattle on KTW radio as one of Seattle's first female, phone-in talk show hosts.

It wasn't radio, but Jeff''s first job laid the foundation for his television cooking show. He worked the counter at a seafoood market and loved teaching customers about the bounties of the ocean and how to cook it.

Jeff graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington with a degree in Business. There he met his wife, Donna who earned her bachelors in Communication. Donna and Jeff moved to Los Angeles and married in 1986.

In 1995 Jeff decided to pursue his dream of cooking on the airwaves. The show began on his local cable system then eventually landed a primetime spot on PBS affiliate KVCR in San Bernardino. Jeff hosted "Man in the Kitchen" for nearly four years (now titled "Classic Man in the Kitchen") Donna co-produced and directed the show.

When Jeff is not cooking, he teaches at Mount San Antonio college in Walnut, California. He also enjoys being a boy scout leader. He's currently writing a book about his adventures and life lessons learned during a five month back packing trip through Europe with Donna and their three kids.

Man in the Kitchen is produced independently by Jeff and Donna Baker and was originally broadcast over PBS affilliate KVCR in southern California. Currently, "Classic" Man in the Kitchen is broadcast on that station Sundays at 11:00 AM on channel 24 and reaches millions of potential viewers in the Los Angeles metro area and Palm Springs. For more information visit http://kvcr.org/TV/Schedule.aspx