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Kristen Kish in "Fast Foodies"
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5 Questions With Kristen Kish of truTV’s “Fast Foodies”

January 27, 2022 Taylor Neumann

You might know Kristen Kish as the extremely talented winner of Season 10 of Top Chef, but in the years since, she’s made an even bigger name for herself in the food scene, opening the respected restaurant Arlo Grey in Austin, Texas. But she also is one of the three chefs — along with fellow Top Chef winner Jeremy Ford and Iron Chef America winner Justin Sutherland — reinventing fast-food classics on truTV’s series Fast Foodies, which premieres its second season Thursday. We spoke to Kish for our “5 Questions” on her favorite fast-food options, what ingredients she can’t be […]

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Six Newbie Bakers Get The Opportunity Of A Lifetime On Bakeaway Camp With Martha Stewart

May 11, 2020 Barb Oates

The domestic diva is a camp director now? Looks like the tireless business titan continues to surprise as she joins Food Network’s new four-part series Bakeaway Camp With Martha Stewart. The show follows six amateur bakers who compete in outdoor camp-inspired food and game challenges for their shot at $25,000 worth of kitchen appliances and the priceless prize of being mentored by and baking with the queen herself in her home kitchen. Stewart will guide competing bakers through various challenges along with camp counselors and baking experts Carla Hall and Dan Langan, and host Jesse Palmer. In the premiere episode, […]

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Adam Richman talks Secret Eats, savvy travel and why the play’s the thing

September 9, 2016 Lori Acken

Adam Richman amassed an international legion of fans thanks to a spate of food-centric Travel Channel series that made the most of his warmth, wit and willingness to try anything once if it looked semi-tasty. And though his current outing Secret Eats — he’s the star and producer — sees the former Man Vs. Food favorite traveling the globe in search of cultural adventures and authentic noshes, Richman offers me a list of other irons in his fire. “I had produced this play called Stalking the Bogeyman in New York, and we were nominated for an Outer Critics Circle award for best American play,” […]

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A Chef’s Life Season 3: Vivian Howard talks success, struggle … and the Avett Brothers!

September 2, 2015 Lori Acken

Vivian Howard, whose Emmy-winning PBS show A Chef’s Life enters its third season this fall, is in the midst of her first Television Critics Association Press Tour, doling out freshly made parfaits to — and taking questions from — sugar-buzzed reporters at an afternoon reception. Afterward, Howard relaxes in the PBS green room to talk frankly about success and struggle and what she believes is the real meaning of “farm-to-table” dining. And — less frankly — about The Avett Brothers, who perform the show’s theme song and drop by to say hi this season. A Chef’s Life Season 3 finds the fresh-faced North Carolina native juggling […]

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7 Questions with Kix Brooks of Cooking Channel’s “Steak Out With Kix Brooks.”

July 23, 2015 Lori Acken

As half of the legendary country music duo Brooks & Dunn, Kix Brooks has spent decades hunting down good meals while crisscrossing the country. Eventually, he realized his happily earned gustatory knowledge (Brooks is also co-owner of Tennessee’s Arrington Vineyards) might benefit his fans — and fans of a tasty piece of beef and a good glass of the grape to wash it down with — as well. “Jumping off a tour bus, somebody’d always be hanging around the bus and you’d ask, ‘Hey, where can you get a good steak around here?’ I realized everybody’s got some 30-minute story about […]