Name Ken Kostick Role Chef | Education St. John's High School TV shows What's for Dinner? | |
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Born 1 June 1953 ( 1953-06-01 ) Winnipeg, Manitoba Died April 21, 2011, Toronto, Canada Nominations Gemini Award for Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series | ||
Ken Kostick & Company w/ Kurt Browning & Sonia Rodriguez
Ken Kostick (1 June 1953 – 21 April 2011) was a Canadian chef and television and radio personality, best known for co-hosting the television series What's for Dinner? with Mary Jo Eustace.
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Early life
Kostick was born in Winnipeg and attended St. John's High School.
Broadcasting career
He cohosted the Life Network series What's for Dinner? with Eustace in the 1990s and early 2000s. The show was noted particularly for Kostick and Eustace's comedic banter, focusing in part on Kostick's public ambiguity at the time about whether or not he was gay.
He also wrote several bestselling cookbooks and put out an eponymous line of cooking products.
Kostick and Eustace debuted on Toronto's new LGBT-focused radio station Proud FM in 2007 as cohosts of the morning show. Eustace left the show in June 2008, following which Kostick continued to host alone until leaving the station in December of that year. The duo then reteamed for the new W Network series He Said, She Said with Ken and Mary Jo.
Death
On 21 April 2011, Kostick died in Toronto of complications of pancreatitis. He was 57 years old.