San the Cooking guy is a big deal here in San Diego. What was once just a cool little cooking show on obscure Channel 4 has mushroomed this Canadian transplant-Sam Zien-into an über-celebrity and«foodie» authority figure. I follow him on Facebook and appreciate that he doesn’t Spam his followers like other celebrities are wont to do. Sam the Cooking Guy genuinely appreciate his fans and tells them so! Now all over the airwaves in a Cox Cable commercial, taking over Costco with various book signings, appearing on morning radio shows or doing cooking segments on TV shows-Sam the Cooking Guy is the man! Don’t forget his kitschy little cooking show! It’s also nice that he is a friendly and unassuming and makes cooking and BBQ-ing look so easy and painless. When you watch his cable channel show, it looks like Sam just opens his frig and throws together whatever is handy. Sam the Cooking Guy DEMYSTIFIES the fine art of cooking. He also does that in the classes he teaches at SD Kitchen & Bath. These«Not-in-the-red» Kitchen Classes feature: * holiday appetizers & drinks– nov. 19 * just things i like– oct. 15 and some other classes that have recently concluded such as BBQ kinda stuff, summer food, birthday menu, and Cinco de Mayo. Rest assured, they all end up selling out because these classes & Special Events are like watching the TV cooking show — but you get to eat and drink everything Sam makes. There’s cocktails, tons of food, tons of fun and you’ll learn a bunch of important(and unimportant) stuff. Me and my pal are going to take the holiday one to get us into that celebratory end-of-the-year spirit, As Sam likes to say: He is just an everyday guy -(with 12 Emmy’s) who has«found a way to make cooking casually understandable. With no fancy equipment and by speaking English instead of ‘chef-speak,» Sam is a sort of «everyman of television cooking.» A 5STAR Unilocal Everyman!