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| | TV's Frugal Gourmet, Jeff Smith, dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Jeff Smith, a white-bearded minister who became public television's popular "Frugal Gourmet" before a sex scandal ruined his career, has died, his business manager said Friday. |
 | | Smith was soon off the air, though he denied the allegations and was never charged with a crime. |
 | | Smith spent the final years of his life encouraging young chefs, researching a book on biblical foods, and traveling to his favorite restaurants and markets in Hong Kong, New York and San Francisco. |
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