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Chef Jeff Henderson helps people “Flip My Food”

September 5, 2014 Kellie Freeze

America has a love affair with food, and unfortunately, we also have a love affair with fat. Celebrity chef Jeff Henderson is on a mission to change that. On his new daily cooking show, Flip My Food, Chef Jeff is traveling across America helping people from firefighters to grandmothers, to newlyweds find ways to prepare their favorite family recipes with less fat and more flavor. While Chef Jeff and his convoy (which includes a custom food truck!) traveled between cities, we had a little Q &A. Where did you get the idea for Flip My Food? I looked at a […]

MasterChef Season 6 Open Casting Info

August 21, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Do you have what it takes to please Gordon Ramsay’s picky palate? Fox has announced open casting calls in 11 U.S. cities for the sixth season of MasterChef. The reality competition is the search for America’s best home cook. Application info can be found on the MasterChef casting website. Season 5 of the reality cooking competition is currently airing Mondays on FOX. From a FOX Press Release: THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT “MASTERCHEF” BEGINS WITH OPEN CASTING CALLS STARTING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Casting Calls for Season Six to Take Place in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, […]

Lenny McNab wins Food Network Star Season 10!

August 11, 2014 Lori Acken

And it’s cowboy Lenny for the win! Food Network Star crowned its Season 10 winner Sunday night, and Colorado’s “Gourmet Cowboy” Lenny McNab was the charmer America most wanted to see lasso his own show on the network. The multitalented McNab — a former chuck wagon chef who also has his own honky tonk act — scored the most viewer votes, besting fellow finalists Luca Della Casa and Nicole Gaffney and earning the right to bring a variation of his Cowboy Up pilot to Food Network. McNab, 42 — who launched his Stetson into the air when his picture appeared on the big screen as the winner — […]

Best TV Cooking Competition Series: The 3rd Annual Viewers Voice Awards

July 27, 2014 StayTuned Staff

Call them cooking competitions or kitchen conundrums, these shows turn up the heat on their contestants. Do you prefer Gordon Ramsey fare of MasterChef and Hell’s Kitchen? Or maybe Alton Brown on Cutthroat Kitchen? Ted Allen on Chopped? Or has Padma Lakshmi stolen your heart on Top Chef? Vote for the best TV Cooking Competition series or as we are categorizing it — “Best Kitchen Conundrum” — below! Let us know what we missed in the comments below or vote on one of our other categories in the 3rd Annual Viewers Voice Awards! Vote in the previous category, Best Game […]

7 Questions With … Adam Richman of NBC’s Food Fighters

July 21, 2014 Lori Acken

On Tuesday, July 22, NBC will premiere its new food competition series Food Fighters, hosted by Man v. Food‘s Adam Richman and featuring home cooks attempting to best the efforts of top TV chefs for cash and bragging rights. In each episode, the talented amateurs will go head-to-head with the pros who try to outcook them at their specialty dish. With each pro they defeat — average Joes are the judges — their cash bounty grows even bigger. And it won’t be easy. Iron Chef’s Cat Cora, Top Chef Masters’ Elizabeth Falkner and Lorena Garcia, Road Trip’s G. Garvin, Ace […]

Adam Richman series Man Finds Food postponed by Travel Channel

July 2, 2014 Lori Acken

In the wake of perennial Travel Channel favorite Adam Richman’s controversial online exchanges with a few detractors, the network has pulled his newest series Man Finds Food — which was to premiere tonight — from its schedule. Though the announcement did not specifically state the reason for its decision, Richman’s recent, shockingly vitriolic adventures in social media with several people who challenged his use of the term “thinspiration” in interviews and Instagram posts about his recent 70-plus pound weight loss are presumed to be to blame. Richman has since apologized for his comments and made his personal Instragram account private. The network has not said […]

We talk Next Great Baker Season 4 with new judge Jacques Torres

June 20, 2014 Lori Acken

When Next Great Baker returns for its fourth season Tuesday night on TLC, Cake Boss star Buddy Valastro will have an additional pair of professional perspectives to help him choose a winner. World-renowned chocolatier Jacques Torres and Magnolia Bakery chief Bobbie Lloyd have signed on as the series’ first permanent judges. “Jacques and Bobbie are the definitions of business skill and culinary creativity,” said Valastro in a TLC press release announcing the additions. “I’m thrilled to have their unique perspectives and expertise help me monitor the teams’ progress and ensure they have what it takes to successfully run a baking business, […]

“Belly Up!” Premieres On Cooking Channel Tonight!

June 16, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Chef Eddie Russell believes that every neighborhood needs a great bar, but in the competitive restaurant industry, local watering holes need to get folks to belly up, or they’ll go belly up. In his new series, appropriately titled, Belly Up!, Russell helps distressed bars realize their full potential and fill their dining rooms. I spoke with showrunner Jill M. Williams and she revealed, “Tonight the premiere episode is in Charleston, SC and it is a bar that is rapidly going under. It desperately needs Chef Eddie’s help. And it really is kind of a mish-mash, the food and the décor […]

“The Chew” on ABC April 7-11

April 4, 2014 Kellie Freeze

The Chew serves up everything food — from cooking and home entertaining to food trends, restaurants, holidays and more — all aimed at making life better, fuller and more fun. The Chew features celebrity chefs Mario Batali, Michael Symon, and Carla Hall, entertaining expert Clinton Kelly and health and wellness enthusiast Daphne Oz (who is currently on maternity leave). For the week of APRIL 7 – 11 1pmET Monday, April 7– “Pour Some Sugar On Me”– Country super group Little Big Town assist Mario Batali in making sticky, sweet cinnamon rolls; Carla Hall visits Nashville, TN’s Cupcake Collection. Tuesday, April […]

Food Network star-mentors seek out America’s Best Cook

April 4, 2014 Lori Acken

Few of us would argue that there’s anything quite as satisfying as a great home-cooked meal. Food Network hopes that watching talented home cooks hone their skills at the hands of famous mentors will come close. This month, the network introduces America’s Best Cook, a six-episode competition that features past and current Iron Chefs Alex Guarnaschelli (Team East), Michael Symon (Team North) and Cat Cora (Team South), plus The Great Food Truck Race’s Tyler Florence (Team West), coaching teams of amateur kitchen whizzes chosen from across America to see who can serve up the country’s best home cook. • RELATED: […]