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Zien’s show, Sam the Cooking Guy, emphasizes food made easy. It helps that it’s shot, with few exceptions, right in Zien’s own kitchen. His family, including the dogs, ...

Chef and restaurant owner of the San Diego-based Not Not Tacos Sam Zien has been publishing videos on his YouTube channel, Sam the Cooking Guy, since July 22nd, 2011. Here's a look at where he ...

The host and creator of the TV series Sam the Cooking Guy, with 15 Emmy awards, four cookbooks and a dozen visits to the Today Show, Sam is well known for his “big in taste and small in effort ...

Known as "Sam the Cooking Guy" – the San Diego-based cooking personality with his own online cooking show – has 29,000 followers on Twitter, 112,000 followers on Instagram, over 150,000 likes ...

Sam the Cooking Guy attended his first-ever restaurant show to receive NRN’s MenuMasters Award for Digital Innovation, so he sat down to talk about why his intended travel channel never came to ...

What do you get when you put Carmel Valley’s Sam the Cooking Guy together with San Diego-based Bumble Bee Seafoods? How about such tasty snacks as jalapeño tuna brown rice bites and ginger soy ...

Oil for frying. 1¼ pounds white fish (cod, halibut, mahi mahi), skinned, deboned, patted dry and sliced into finger-sized pieces, approximately 1 by 3 inches ...

San Diego-based TV chef Sam the Cooking Guy has become Sam the restaurateur guy in the past couple years. First, he opened a Not Not Taco counter in the Little Italy Food Hall, then he launched a ...

Back in March, Sam the Cooking Guy’s CooCoo’s Nest joined the Little Italy piazza and Food Hall. This spot is dedicated entirely to fried chicken sandwiches.

Back in March, Sam “The Cooking Guy” Zien was as shocked as anyone when COVID-19 arrived and shuttered his new Graze by Sam restaurant in Little Italy just a few weeks after it opened. But ...