Editing Danny Kaye (section)

==Other endeavors==

===Cooking===
In his later years, Kaye entertained at home as chef. He specialized in Chinese and Italian cooking.<ref name="Star"/><ref name= Rice>{{cite news| url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-03-12/entertainment/8701190948_1_danny-kaye-world-class-chef-stove| title=Kaye Got Rave Reviews For A Starring Role As An Artist In The Kitchen| date=March 12, 1987| first=William| last=Rice| newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]| access-date=August 3, 2017| archive-date=August 5, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805013139/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-03-12/entertainment/8701190948_1_danny-kaye-world-class-chef-stove| url-status=dead}}</ref> He had a custom-made Chinese restaurant installed at the rear of his house by its alley, then had a kitchen and dining area built around it.<ref name=Rice/> The stove that Kaye used for his Chinese dishes was fitted with metal rings for the burners to allow the heat to be highly concentrated, and a trough with circulating ice water cooled the area to keep the intense heat tolerable for those who were cooking.<ref name=Today>{{cite web |url=http://www.today.com/popculture/marcella-hazan-memoir-classic-italian-chef-wbna27054074 |title=Marcella Hazan: Memoir of a classic Italian chef| date=October 6, 2008 |work=[[Today (U.S. TV program)|Today]] |access-date=March 10, 2011}}</ref> He learned "at Johnny Kan's restaurant in San Francisco and with Cecilia Chang at her Mandarin restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles".<ref name= Rice /> He taught Chinese cooking classes at a San Francisco Chinese restaurant in the 1970s.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://newspapers.com/article/tri-city-herald-danny-kaye-teaches-chine/133634168/ |title=Danny Kaye Teaches Chinese Cooking |date=January 22, 1974 |agency=[[Associated Press]]| newspaper=[[Tri-City Herald]] |location=[[Kennewick, Washington]] |access-date=October 17, 2023 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> The theatre and demonstration kitchen under the library at the [[Hyde Park campus of the Culinary Institute of America|Hyde Park, New York, campus]] of the [[Culinary Institute of America]] is named for him.<ref>{{cite book| title=Cooking secrets of the CIA| editor=[[Culinary Institute of America]]| publisher= Chronicle Books| year=1995| page=[https://archive.org/details/cookingsecretsof00culirich/page/6/mode/2up?q=kaye 7]| isbn=978-0-8118-1163-7| url=https://archive.org/details/cookingsecretsof00culirich| url-access=registration| access-date=January 18, 2011}}</ref>

Kaye referred to his kitchen as "Ying's Thing". While filming ''The Madwoman of Chaillot'' in France, he phoned home to ask his family if they would like to eat at Ying's Thing that evening; Kaye flew home for dinner.<ref name=Dena/> Not all of his efforts in the kitchen went well. After flying to San Francisco for a recipe for sourdough bread, he came home and spent hours preparing loaves. When his daughter asked about the bread, Kaye hit the bread on the kitchen table; his bread was hard enough to chip it.<ref name=Dena/> Kaye approached kitchen work with enthusiasm, making sausages and other foods needed for his cuisine.<ref name=Today/><ref name=Writer/> Though it is often claimed that he was a [[Meilleur Ouvrier de France]] (MOF),<ref name=Conversation/> this is not true, as the MOF is restricted to French professionals.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://meilleursouvriersdefrance.pro/| title=''Annuaire des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France''| website=Meilleursouvriersdefrance.pro| access-date=May 8, 2021| archive-date=March 26, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326163313/http://meilleursouvriersdefrance.pro/| url-status=dead}}</ref> Rather, he had cooked for several famous French chefs at his house (all of them MOFs), and they signed an "honorary" Meilleur Ouvrier de France diploma for him.<ref>{{cite book| first=Yanou| last=Collart| author-link=Yanou Collart| title=Les étoiles de ma vie| year=2019| isbn=978-2-8098-2653-1| chapter="Danny Kaye, meilleur ouvrier de France"| publisher=L'Archipel}}</ref>

===Flying===
Kaye became an aviation enthusiast and pilot. His interest was sparked by his longtime friend, choreographer [[Michael Kidd]], who at the time had recently earned his private pilot's license. Kaye was an enthusiastic and accomplished golfer, but reduced golf activities in favor of flying and started training for his license in 1959.<ref name=Fly/>
<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gk4_AAAAIBAJ&pg=3103,2142968| title=Kaye Likes Air| last=Scott| first=Vernon| date=July 14, 1962| newspaper=[[Windsor Star]] |access-date=March 18, 2011}}</ref> The first plane Kaye owned was a [[Piper PA-23|Piper Aztec]].<ref name=Fly>{{cite journal| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSEDAAAAMBAJ&q=danny+kaye&pg=PA76| title=If I Can Fly, You Can Fly| last=Kaye| first=Danny| date=January 1967| journal=[[Popular Science]]| access-date=March 11, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TSgmAAAAIBAJ&pg=990,3305946| title=Danny Kaye Likes Flying, TV, Dodgers| last=Thomas| first=Bob| date=September 21, 1965| newspaper=[[Gettysburg Times]]| access-date=January 15, 2011}}</ref> After this, he became qualified for many types of aircraft, from single-engined light aircraft to multiengine jets.<ref name="Star"/><ref name=Conversation/><ref name=Fly/><ref>{{cite news| url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oKAyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1197,1151876| title=American League's a new act for Danny Kaye| last=Smith| first=Red| newspaper=[[The Miami News]]| date=June 12, 1976| access-date=January 21, 2011}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

Kaye received a [[type rating]] in a [[Learjet]], and he was named vice president of the Learjet Company by [[Bill Lear]] as an honorary title (he had no line responsibility at the company).<ref name="Flyingmag">{{cite journal| last1=Pope| first1=Stephen| title=The Last True Learjet| url=http://www.flyingmag.com/last-true-lear-jet| journal=[[Flying (magazine)|Flying]]| access-date=July 20, 2016| date=July 6, 2016| quote=Danny Kaye, by the way, never owned a Learjet, though he did receive a type rating ... his friend Bill Lear made him a vice president this was strictly an honorary and symbolic title}}</ref> He supported many flying projects. In 1968, he was honorary chairman of the Las Vegas International Exposition of Flight, a show that used many facets of the city's entertainment industry while presenting an air show. The operational show chairman was well-known aviation figure [[Lynn Garrison]]. Kaye flew a Learjet to 65 cities in five days on a mission to help UNICEF.<ref name=Conversation/><ref name=Flyingmag/>

===Business ventures===
In 1958, Kaye and partner Lester Smith formed Kaye–Smith Enterprises. The company owned a chain of radio stations, mostly in the [[Pacific Northwest]]. Other Kaye–Smith divisions included a concert-promotion company, a video-production company, and [[Studio X|a recording studio]]. <!-- Kaye sold his share of the company to the Smith family in 1985.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.kayesmith.com/about-us/history/| title=History of Kaye-Smith| website=KayeSmith.com}}</ref> -->

===Baseball===
A lifelong [[Los Angeles Dodgers|Dodgers]] fan, Kaye recorded a song called "D-O-D-G-E-R-S (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley!)", describing a fictitious encounter with the San Francisco Giants, a hit during the real-life pennant chase of 1962.<ref>[https://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/dodgers.shtml "D-O-D-G-E-R-S (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley)"] at [[Baseball Almanac]]</ref> That song is included on ''[[Baseball's Greatest Hits]]'' compact discs. A good friend of [[Leo Durocher]]'s, he often traveled with the team.<ref name=Time/> He also possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of the game and was an accomplished second baseman.<ref name="Star">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=A-EyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3090,1636996 |title=Danny Kaye, comedian who loved children, dead at 74| agency= Associated Press |date=March 4, 1987 |newspaper=[[Wilmington Morning Star]] |access-date=December 15, 2010}}</ref>

Kaye and his business partner Lester Smith also led an investment group, which was awarded the American League's 13th franchise, which became the [[Seattle Mariners]] for US$6.2 million on February 7, 1976.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BDZVAAAAIBAJ&pg=3564,1956170| title=Major League Baseball Returns To Seattle| date=February 9, 1976| newspaper=[[The Leader-Post]]| access-date=January 15, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/You-Could-Look-It-Up-The-first-time-1110764.php| title=You Could Look It Up: The first time...| newspaper=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]| date=March 27, 2003| access-date=October 18, 2023}}</ref> The ownership percentages of Kaye, Smith, and two other remaining original investors were reduced to 5% each when [[George Argyros]] purchased 80% of the Mariners for $10.4 million on January 30, 1981.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/30/sports/al-owners-approve-2-sales.html| title=A.L. Owners Approve 2 Sales| agency=Associated Press| date=January 30, 1981| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| access-date=October 17, 2023}}</ref> Kaye sold all of his business interests to Smith's family in 1985.<ref name="kayesmith">{{cite web| url=https://www.kayesmith.com/about-us/history/| title=History and Overview| website=KayeSmith| date=July 28, 2023| access-date=October 17, 2023}}</ref>

===Medicine===
Kaye was an honorary member of the [[American College of Surgeons]] and the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]].<ref name="Star"/>

===Charity===
[[File:Amerikaanse filmacteur Danny Kaye arriveert op Schiphol.ogv|thumb|Danny Kaye on a promotion tour for UNICEF in the Netherlands, 1955]]
Working alongside UNICEF's Halloween fundraiser founder, Ward Simon Kimball Jr., the actor educated the public on impoverished children in deplorable living conditions overseas, and assisted in the distribution of donated goods and funds. His involvement with UNICEF came about in an unusual way. Kaye was flying home from London in 1949 when one of the plane's four engines lost its propeller and caught fire. The problem was initially thought serious enough that it might make an ocean landing; life jackets and life rafts were made ready.<ref name=":0" /> The plane was able to head back over 500 miles (804.67&nbsp;km) to land at [[Shannon Airport]], Ireland. On the way back to Shannon, the head of the Children's Fund, [[Maurice Pate]], had the seat next to Danny Kaye and spoke at length about the need for recognition for the fund. Their discussion continued on the flight from Shannon to New York; it was the beginning of the actor's long association with UNICEF.<ref name="UNICEF 2">{{cite web| url=http://www.unicefusa.org/partners/ambassadors/danny-kaye/danny-kaye-bio.html| title=Danny Kaye Biography| access-date=March 23, 2014| website=[[UNICEF]]}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jUIjAAAAIBAJ&pg=2884,742737| title=Crippled Transport Limps to Safety| date=July 8, 1949| newspaper=[[The Lewiston Daily Sun]]| access-date=January 19, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.unicef.org/people/people_danny_kaye.html| title=Danny Kaye| website=UNICEF| access-date=January 19, 2011}}</ref>

"For all of his success as a performer (...) his greatest legacy remains his tireless humanitarian work—so close were his ties to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) that when the organization received the Nobel Peace Prize, Kaye was tapped to accept it", according to music critic Jason Ankeny.<ref name="allmusic"/>