Hosted by Christine Cushing, Christine Cushing Live was a completely live cooking show featuring live call-in questions and guests from the world of food and entertainment. The series aired (until 2005) live weeknights at 6 pm EST on Food Network Canada and repeated daily at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. EST. The series goes into repeat sessions for the spring and summer months. Host of Christine Cushing Live, Christine Cushing is a celebrity chef. ... Food Network Canada is a Canadian cable and digital television network owned by Alliance Atlantis Communications and Corus Entertainment. ...
It is produced in Canada by the production company Chiffonade Inc. For further information about the series please contact 416.406.7339.
Cushing's mother encouraged her to put aside $50 a week from her first job as a cashier at the local Dominion grocer.
Cushing realized the $27,000 savings was her ticket to the big-time: namely, a nine-month course at the famous Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne in Paris.
Cushing, who describes her appetite for risk as being "on the low end of moderate" and says she's realizing she must take more chances in order to grow her portfolio.