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Sugar (television series)
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Sugar is a TV cooking show shown on Food Network Canada
hosted by Canadian pastry chef Anna Olson
. The official show description reads "Anna Olson satisfies sweet cravings with great dessert recipes and guides viewers from making to plating with presentation ideas to dress up any dessert."
Premiered in October 2002, Sugar is a half-hour show which specializes in desserts. Each episode has a theme ingredient. Host Anna Olson
makes one simple dessert with the theme ingredient in the first part of the show. During the second and third part, she creates a more elaborate or decadent dessert with the same ingredient. Finally, during the last few minutes of the program called the "Switch-Up", Anna re-invents the first dessert with a few tricks and turns it into something more special.
Sugar aired for five seasons on Food Network Canada and its 151 episodes has been syndicated in 40 countries.
International Distribution has started to release Sugar on DVD.
Food Network Canada
Food Network is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel with programming related to food, cooking, cuisine, and the food industry. Food Network is a joint venture between Shaw Media, Corus Entertainment, and Scripps Networks Interactive....
hosted by Canadian pastry chef Anna Olson
Anna Olson
Anna Olson is a professionally trained pastry chef. She currently resides in the city of Welland, Ontario in the Niagara region of Ontario. She is the host of Fresh with Anna Olson on Food Network Canada. She was previously the host of Food Network Canada's Sugar and Kitchen...
. The official show description reads "Anna Olson satisfies sweet cravings with great dessert recipes and guides viewers from making to plating with presentation ideas to dress up any dessert."
Premiered in October 2002, Sugar is a half-hour show which specializes in desserts. Each episode has a theme ingredient. Host Anna Olson
Anna Olson
Anna Olson is a professionally trained pastry chef. She currently resides in the city of Welland, Ontario in the Niagara region of Ontario. She is the host of Fresh with Anna Olson on Food Network Canada. She was previously the host of Food Network Canada's Sugar and Kitchen...
makes one simple dessert with the theme ingredient in the first part of the show. During the second and third part, she creates a more elaborate or decadent dessert with the same ingredient. Finally, during the last few minutes of the program called the "Switch-Up", Anna re-invents the first dessert with a few tricks and turns it into something more special.
Sugar aired for five seasons on Food Network Canada and its 151 episodes has been syndicated in 40 countries.
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DVDs
Echo Bridge Entertainment, who acquired Alliance AtlantisAlliance Atlantis
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. was a Toronto-based media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Madrid, Barcelona, Shannon and Sydney.Alliance Atlantis was acquired by Canwest...
International Distribution has started to release Sugar on DVD.
| Season | Release Date | Number of Episodes | Number of Discs | Running time | Format | Reference |
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| Season 1, Volume 1 | September 24, 2009 | 20 | 2 | 460 minutes | NTSC NTSC NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most of North America, most of South America , Burma, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and some Pacific island nations and territories .Most countries using the NTSC standard, as... Region 1 |
Books
Two books have been derived based on recipes from the shows, published by Whitecap Books.- Sugar (Whitecap Books, April 2004, ISBN 1-55285-509-0)
- Another Cup of Sugar (Whitecap Books, October 2006, ISBN 1-55285-809-X)