BOSTON (May 3, 2010) – The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy – consisting of the world’s most celebrated chefs, renowned food critics, leading restaurateurs and well-traveled gourmands – recently released its list of the best restaurants in the world. This year’s edition included restaurants owned by some of Create TV’s renowned chefs.

Denmark’s Noma – co-owned by New Scandinavian Cooking’s Claus Meyer – earned the top restaurant ranking. Meyer is known for highlighting the flavors and ingenuity of modern Nordic cuisine both at Noma and through the television series – seen in U.S.A. exclusively on public television.

Noma took the top spot from Spain’s four-time winner El Bulli, ranked second. World-famous El Bulli is owned by renowned gastro-molecular chef Ferran Adriŕ – who appeared on Create’s culinary road-trip series Spain… on the road Again with Gwyenth Paltrow, Mario Batali and New York Times food writer Mark Bittman.

In addition, popular French chef Eric Ripert’s New York restaurant, Le Bernadin, earned the fifteenth spot. Behind-the-scene shots of Le Bernadin are featured in Ripert’s cooking series Avec Eric – which traces the inspiration for the dishes served at his famed eatery.

Create TV is dedicated exclusively to public television’s best cooking, travel, and gardening shows. The commercial-free channel is available on more than 229 public television stations – representing 82% of U.S. TV households nationwide.

Create is distributed by American Public Television, WNET.org, and WGBH Boston in association with NETA and PBS. For more information about Create and its extensive list of how-to programs, visit www.CreateTV.com.


About Create™:
Create™ is the dynamic TV channel that spotlights many of television's most popular how-to, cooking, arts and crafts and travel series. Create is produced and distributed by APT, Thirteen/WNET and WGBH Boston in association with National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) and PBS.

About the Entities That Make Create TV Possible:
American Public Television:
American Public Television (APT) has been a leading distributor of high-quality, top-rated programming to America’s public television stations since 1961. In 2009, APT distributed 56 of the top 100 highest-rated public television titles. Among its 300 new program titles per year are prominent documentaries, news and current affairs programs, dramatic series, how-to programs, children’s series and classic movies, including For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots, A Ripple of Hope, Rick Steves' Europe, Newsline, Globe Trekker, Simply Ming, America's Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated, Lidia's Italy, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, Murdoch Mysteries, Doc Martin, Rosemary and Thyme, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, The Great American Songbook and John Denver: The Wildlife Concert. APT also licenses programs internationally through its APT Worldwide service. In 2006, APT launched Create™ – the TV channel featuring the best of public television's lifestyle programming. For more information about APT’s programs and services, visit APTonline.org.

WNET.ORG:
New York public media company WNET.ORG is a pioneering provider of television and web content. The parent of Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group, WNET.ORG brings such acclaimed broadcast series and websites as Worldfocus, Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Charlie Rose, Wide Angle, Secrets of the Dead, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Visions, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, Wild Chronicles, Miffy and Friends and Cyberchase to national and international audiences. Through its wide range of channels and platforms, WNET.ORG serves the entire New York City metro area with unique local productions, broadcasts and innovative educational and cultural projects. In all that it does, WNET.ORG pursues a single, overarching goal – to create media experiences of lasting significance for New York, America and the world. For more information, visit www.wnet.org .

WGBH Boston:
WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, the source of one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup, along with some of public television's best-known lifestyle shows and children's programs and many public radio favorites. WGBH is the number one producer of Web sites on pbs.org, the most-visited dot-org on the Internet. WGBH is a pioneer in educational multimedia and in technologies and services that make media accessible to the 36 million Americans who rely on captioning or video descriptions. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys, Peabodys, duPont-Columbia Awards…even two Oscars. In 2002, WGBH was honored with a special institutional Peabody Award for 50 years of excellence. For more information, visit www.wgbh.org.

National Educational Telecommunications Association:
The National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) is a professional association that serves public television licensees and educational entities in all 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. NETA serves by connecting people and ideas, by providing quality programming, educational resources, professional development, management support and national representation. For more information, visit www.NETAonline.org.

Public Broadcasting Service:
PBS is a media enterprise that serves 355 public noncommercial television stations and reaches nearly 73 million people each week through on-air and online content. Bringing diverse viewpoints to television and the Internet, PBS provides high-quality documentary and dramatic entertainment, and consistently dominates the most prestigious award competitions. More information about PBS is available at www.pbs.org, one of the leading dot-org Web sites on the Internet.

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