Private memorial planned for Ken Kostick
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A private memorial service will be held in Toronto at a later date for Winnipeg’s best-known celebrity chef, Ken Kostick, who died of pancreatitis Thursday. He was 57.
He is best remembered as the Canadian chef and TV personality who hosted What’s For Dinner on CBC, with co-host Mary Jo Eustace.
The show featured the pair playfully bickering as they sliced, diced, and cooked their way through one dish after another.
Kostick died at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, according to a statement issued Saturday by his business team. Kostick had battled acute pancreatitis before his health took a turn for the worse earlier this month.
As well as working in TV and radio, including a stint on a morning show on the Pride FM radio station, Kostick wrote several bestselling cookbooks. He most recently appeared in He Said, She Said with Ken & Mary Jo on the W network.
“Ken lived a full and wonderful life, with many passions including, food, pets and people,” the statement said.
In various interviews over the years, the Winnipeg chef was always described as friendly and down-to-earth.
“Kostick was a very energetic guy and his original show with Mary Jo Eustace was quite a groundbreaking initiative in what would eventually become the booming foodie-TV genre,” Free Press TV critic Brad Oswald said Saturday.
Kostick never forgot his North End roots, either. He was on a book tour in 2009 for The $10 Gourmet when he reminisced with Free Press food writer Wendy Burke about his childhood.
Kostick grew up in the working-class neighbourhood along with his sister and several foster children the Kosticks welcomed into their family. He says he got his love of cooking from his parents.
— Alexandra Paul