The moment the Blue Team lost the game challenge on Food Network's Worst Cooks in America, I feared how cutthroat host Alton Brown would be to them. He didn't disappoint: throwing strawberries off a plate, hovering over them, and requesting to take one of Anne Burrell's eliminated players, because even they are better. The episode […]
Another great episode of Food Network's Worst Cooks in America, much thanks to the "odd couple" dynamic between Anne Burrell and Alton Brown. Their bittersweet collaboration, and very opposite tactics to train the recruits makes the show. I wonder if folks on the blue team are dying to get on the red team. With this […]
Having to be at work at 5 a.m. to wait like cattle for a parking spot renewal, so how did I pass the time? Food Network's Worst Cooks in America – and to be completely honest, given the hour and lack of sleep for the first 25 min, I thought I was hallucinating…was Alton Brown smiling? […]
This week's episode of Food Network's Worst Cooks in America was anything but "Simple Yet Sophisticated". The recruits "tilted the world" while attempting to make crepes – f you ever wanted to see a bunch of adults in a kitchen making bizarre full body motions, watch this episode. Hosts Anne Burrell and Alton Brown humiliated […]
In this week's horrifying episode of Food Network's Worst Cooks in America, recruits were pretty much traumatized by hosts Anne Burrell and Alton Brown – surprised no one lost consciousness or threw up. Brown was like a shark navigating the kitchen and the recruits could almost hear the theme song from Jaws playing. Brown even […]
In this week exciting episode of Food Network's Worst Cooks in America recruits got a chance to flex their muscles in salad trivia and throw food at a team mate, not a bad way to start. It seems that some of the recruits either went home and brushed up on their cooking skills or got […]
Hosts Anne Burrell and Alton Brown welcome 16 new disaster chefs to the gauntlet of Food Network's Worst Cooks in America, and they are absolutely horrible; each one with their own food poisoning or kitchen burn down story to tell, these folks appear to be hopeless. This season the contestants will be guided by Burrell […]
Food Network is set to premiere the 18th season of Worst Cooks in America on January 5, focusing on 16 contestants with zero culinary skills. In fact, if you've watched previous seasons then you know most of them act like they've been cursed with feet for hands in the kitchen. Always reminds me of a […]
In an epic, jolly finale to Food Network's Holiday Wars, artists brought mind blowing cake and sugar work, well at least in round two, round one kind of felt like they played it just a little too safe. Ginger Snappers and Bah Hum Bakers competed to wow the judges by giving the abdominal snowman a […]
In the all-female finale of Food Network's Holiday Baking Championship, contestants created delicious flavor profiles and had me holding my breath at multi-tiered cakes made to resemble a plaid shirt. Such talented women, dedicated to their craft, the sheer elegance of their work was inspiring this episode. Host Jesse Palmer resumed giving us some extra […]
This week on Food Network's Holiday Wars, host Jonathan Bennett and judges Shinmin Li and Jason Smith tasked the competitors to lock up the Christmas gifts and provide Santa with a side hustle post-holiday season. Children love to go sneaking around in the middle of the night looking for their gifts, from closets, to cupboards, to […]
This week on Food Network's Holiday Baking Championship, contestants got in the Chanukah spirit with gelt inspired desserts. All had one thing on their mind, making it in to the finale for a chance to win $25,000. They collectively brought skill and perfection with judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale struggling at the […]
This week on Food Network's Holiday Wars, "The Spirit of Christmas" continues with teams working seamlessly like little elves and wowing judges Shinmin Li and Jason Smith with their immaculate cake and sugar work. Host Jonathan Bennett had fun playing dress up, and wrapping gifts while tasking the remaining four teams to create Santa's perfect […]
Host Jonathan Bennett and judges Shinmin Li and Jason Smith are back on Food Network with new series Holiday Wars and "Stealing the Naughty List" epitomized the holidays. This is exactly what I want to see out of a baking competition to put me in the Christmas spirit. The set decorations alone had my inner […]
This week on Food Network's Holiday Baking Championship, we got to see host Jesse Palmer strip (yes, I said strip) and challenge the remaining six contestants to repurpose the most delicious (in my opinion) holiday sweet bread "Panettone" – something my family has every Christmas. I was very excited to see how the competitors would […]
This week on Food Network's Holiday Baking Championship, host Jesse Palmer challenged the remaining 7 contestants to create mini pies from brie and homemade jam and incorporate uninspiring prepared ingredients in to delicious cakes. While Palmer enjoyed his brie a little too much, the judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale were in some […]
The final episode of Food Network's Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge had the remaining three contestants expressing touching moments of inspiration and creating intricately beautiful meals to represent their family Thanksgiving. Host Giada De Laurentiis tasked them to use squash as their muse and all three created meals that made my mouth water. Judges Alex Guarnaschelli, Carla […]
This week on Food Network's Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge, the four remaining competitors were tasked with working together to create the best "Friendsgiving Dinner", a perfect dish highlighting goose and hen. One team conveniently coined themselves "Batman & Robin" and they were a "dynamic duo", working exceptionally well together. Things did get a smidge out of […]
This week on Food Network's Holiday Baking Championship, host Jesse Palmer challenged our remaining eight contestants to impress judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman, and Lorraine Pascale with apple cider donuts wrapped in fall themes, and decadent thanksgiving roll cakes. As is the theme this season, during "Pre Heat", contestants really took the challenge to the […]
This week on Food Network's Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge, the remaining five competitors were challenged with thinking outside the box using some nontraditional food items and transforming them into Thanksgiving comfort food. Host Giada De Laurentiis encouraged them to express their creativity to reinvent items like pizza, lasagna, and tacos 0 while judges Alex Guarnaschelli, Carla […]
