Chef Sandra Lee

 Sandra Lee is a celebrity chef who may very well have invented "hybrid cooking."

She came up with the concept of "semi-homemade" cooking, a form of food preparation using 70 percent pre-packaged products and 30 percent fresh items.  The idea was the basis of her Food Network TV show "Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee," which ran for fifteen years beginning in 2003. A second Food Network series, "Sandra's Money Saving Meals", was developed in response to the recession caused by the 2008 financial crisis and began airing in 2009. By demonstrating how the most basic household foodstuffs can be used to make meals, she has been dubbed "the queen of making something out of nothing."

Ms. Lee's methods have been criticized by culinary critics who question of quality and integrity of non-fresh ingredients, but when the COVID pandemic hit, the lack of fresh items early on vindicated Ms. Lee's ideas.  It was a set of ideas she wrote numerous bestselling books on.

Fun fact: This is an awkward time to mention this, but Sandra Lee was the domestic partner of now-former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for fourteen years beginning in 2005, making her the de facto First Lady of New York State for the final eight of those years.