Chef Tell

Synopsis based on the biography, "CHEF TELL The Biography of America's Pioneer TV Showman Chef, " by Ronald Joseph Kule. "Tell started all this television madness about chefs." - Regis Philbin Tons of bombs drop on Stuttgart the night Friedemann Paul Erhardt who would become Chef Tell on television and cooking-show stages. At 13, he not only begins his quest to become a master chef but also discovers his mother's lifeless body hanging from a chandelier, laying in the basis for his relentless drive toward culinary perfection: to prove his mother right and honor her cooking that kept her family alive after WWII. He arrives in America, marries his sweetheart, a former Miss Philadelphia, and enters a scriptless outdoor audition for cooking on syndicated-television segments. Erhardt takes his place in culinary history by using wit, personality, and imagination alone; he wins the contest, birthing a new breed of celebrity, the TV-showman chef. Weeks later, 40,000,000 avid fans in 114 cit