Graham Kerr galloped into culinary celebrity nearly 50 years ago. He has spent most of the time since trying to walk away from it.
The charming, cheeky “Galloping Gourmet” was credited as one of the first entertainers of food TV, labeled “the high priest of hedonism”; he received a Broken Spoon Award from Weight Watchers International for the “dangerous” excess of his CBS hit. But Kerr abandoned that butter-and-cream persona when he ended the show in 1971. For decades after, his life followed new scripts — low-fat regimens, flavor-forward cooking, religious missions, vegetable gardening.
