Videos on This Site

Just wish to call your attention to the many instructional videos that are part of this site. They derive from my time as food columnist for The Denver Post and from a stint in Chicago in the early aughts, during which time I and some friends worked up a pilot for a television series on wine. I hope that they help you “get cooking,” as well as learn more about how to appreciate wine and wine & food.

Cooking Basics
The production quality on these Denver Post YouTube vids is excellent because they were taken and edited by a very talented videographer and journalist, Amy Brothers, with whom it was a treat to work. And they cover a raft of topics that I hope help you perfect your skills as a cook, from “How to Use a Chef’s Knife” and “How to Cut Up a Whole Chicken,” to short recipe-like flicks such as “Easy Homemade Chocolate Sauce” and “How to Make Shepherd’s Pie.”

Wine Basics
Same idea with these vids, helping you with wine appreciation fundamentals, such as “Tasting Wine Using Your Senses” and—one of my favorites—“How Storing Wine is Like Managing a Teenager.”

Wine and Cooking “How Tos”
GET COOKING WITH BILL ST JOHN also sports a raft of how-to videos, for both cooking and wine appreciation and knowledge.

In the kitchen, you’ll learn “How to Make Mac ‘n’ Cheese Blue Box Style,” for example, as well as “How to Cook Perfect Poached Eggs.” From the vineyard or wine cellar, there are short videos on “How to Save a Half-Filled Bottle of Wine from Spoiling,” for one, and “All About Corkscrews and Opening Bottles of Wine,” for another. 

I hope you play around in the Videos section at this site, GET COOKING WITH BILL ST JOHN, and that these short presentations help you become a better cook or wine lover.

Many of the “Basics” videos, for both cooking and wine, can be found here. All of the “Wine” videos are here. And all of the “How To” vids are here.