LA CUISINE DU GARAGE

We’re lazy, we’ve got no talent and we can’t cook!
So why have we fooled all these people?

1. LCDG was the only show in Wisconsin to win an award in the national 2008 Alliance for Community Media Hometown Video Awards Competition (http://www.alliancecm.org/).

2. LCDG was discussed in The Milwaukee Magazine’s “Local Folk In The News” 1/1/08 edition…”It’s a gas.” (www.milwaukeemagazine.com/TheMil/default.asp?newmessageID=18015)

3. LCDG was featured by WUWM (FM 89.7) in a7-minute feature on 11/12/07 and 6/18/08 (www.wuwm.com/lakeeffect).

4. LCDG was featured by the New Berlin NOW section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on 9/6/07 (1 ¾ page total, front page color picture, 3 black and white). A five minute LCDG demo video can be seen at http://www.newberlinnow.com/story/index.aspx?id=657940.

5. LCDG was featured at the ’07 Greater Milwaukee Realtors’ Home and Garden Show. They are “highly recommended… their combination of cooking advice and entertainment pizzazz was a hit.” (Angela Proell, VP of Marketing, 414-778-4929).

6. LCDG was featured by OnMilwaukee.com on 4/12/07 (http://www.onmilwaukee.com/articles/print/LaCuisineduGarage.html).

7. LCDG was featured in a 12-minute interview on the 3/22/07 WOKY morning show (Marissa Boragno, producer, 414-541-9697).

8. LCDG was featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2/8/04 Food Section article by editor Nancy Stohs who noted that: “You can’t help but like these guys… The chemistry of their friendship is obvious, the cooking advice is sound and the jokes are endearing.” (http://www.jsonline.com/entree/col/feb04/208154.asp & http://www.jsonline.com/entree/cooking/feb04/208165.asp).

9. LCDG was featured in a West Allis Star article “Cooking with humor: Duo put a twist on traditional food program” (available on request).
10. Two of LCDG’s recipes were included in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 12/29/04 “Best of ‘04” recipes. (http://www.jsonline.com/entree/cooking/dec04/287655.asp).

11. LCDG received an “Award of Excellence” (the top state award) from the Wisconsin Association of P.E.G. Channels at their ’05,’07 and ‘08 video festivals and was one of only five percent to receive an award in the ‘06 national ACM Festival. (Craig Mueller, 414-321-1121).

12. As of 8/08, LCDG’s 52 episodes, sponsored by Majdecki’s Sentry (Ted, 414-546-2772), are shown in 35 cities (including Milwaukee, Chicago, Madison and St. Louis) to a potential audience of over 2,000,000 people.

With your help, we could fool more. Tell somebody about our show.
LCDG is seen in the following cities:

Chicago, IL
Longmont, CO
Waverly, IA
Saint Louis, MO
Milwaukee, WI
Shorewood
Whitefish Bay
Glendale
Fox Point
Bayside
River Hills
Brown Deer
West Allis
Marshfield
Wausau
Mauston
New Richmond
Dodgeville
Milton
Wisconsin Rapids
Nekoosa
Port Edwards
Seneca
Saratoga
Rome
Rudolph
Verona
Oregon
Fitchburg
River Falls
Hudson
Madison
Janesville
Trempealeau County
New London
Sun Prairie

John Ash and Mark Meddaugh

About Us!

It Could Happen to Anyone!

John Ash and Mark Meddaugh, hosts of La Cuisine du Garage, feel obligated to explain to viewers why they’re cooking in a garage – not that there’s anything wrong with that! The show opens with:

Two guys. Three unfortunate accidents. Three kitchens burned down . . . in two years. It could happen to anyone. Now, because of a restraining order from an insurance company, recommendations of the fire inspector and complaints of others, they cook in the garage.

La Cuisine du Garage was born in 2003 on a “garage” set at Channel 14, a
public access television station in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis, Wis.
Since then, the quirky, one-hour cooking program has grown to secure airtime on
public access TV stations in 35 cities across the Midwest, including Chicago, St.
Paul, Milwaukee and Madison.

La Cuisine du Garage is often described as an offbeat blend of a Food Network cooking show and Home Improvement, served up with a side of humor. The monthly 60-minute show features three to four recipes, cooking advice and tips, plus lots of wisecracks, humor, wacky trivia and skits. In the past four years, the show has covered Thai, Cajun, Mexican, French, Irish, Cuban, German, Indian, Chinese and every cuisine in between.

As garage cooks, Ash and Meddaugh sport tool belts stocked with whisks, spoons, can openers and other cooking implements. Their worktop is an old door set atop sawhorses, and the back wall is adorned with a pegboard sporting kitchen tools, Jell-O molds and old license plates.

John and Mark Are REALLY Close Friends

Ash and Meddaugh have been friends since high school. During their college years, they ran a summer window-cleaning and painting business. They both married women from the same Wisconsin city and have children the same age. They spent many a Sunday together for family cookouts and even started a Whiners Club that included a Whiners Club t-shirt, certificate and membership card for paying members. Coincidentally, the Whiners Club was “born” the year both of their wives were pregnant! To get La Cuisine du Garage started, they took a television production class together.

When they’re not on-air, Ash runs his own physical therapy business and does a good amount of the cooking at home. He loves to garden and once borrowed a Julia Child cookbook from the library to make coq au vin. It was that entrée that led to his interest in fine cooking.

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Contact: John Ash ptfirst@milwpc.com
Mark Meddaugh, mark.meddaugh@gmail.com