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Jamie Deen talks Home for Dinner with Jamie Deen Season 2

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Jamie Deen talks Home for Dinner with Jamie Deen Season 2

Like most busy parents, Jamie Deen has mastered the art of multitasking. Doing an interview while cleaning out and gassing up his car to prepare for a family vacation, Deen explains that it’s actually a large part of what drove him to create his popular Food Network series Home for Dinner with Jamie Deen, which returns for a second season Sunday, May 26, at 10am ET/PT. The show features Deen whipping up nutritious, time conscious and budget-friendly meals that appeal to adults and kids alike, so his family — and those of his viewers can spend around the table with [...]

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Channel Guide interviews Mikey Roe of Travel Channel’s Feed The Beast

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Channel Guide interviews Mikey Roe of Travel Channel’s Feed The Beast

Feed the Beast star Mikey Roe is the Adam Richman of the late-night crowd — and he’s perfectly cool with you saying so. The affable, grungy-cool Roe credits his Travel Channel colleague for opening the door for regular guys like him to bring his passion for food (and a grand old time) to TV. “When Man vs. Food came out, that really helped pave the way for a guy like me, who’s not a chef — but I cook four nights a week for myself, I love food and have always been into it, and I know great places,” says [...]

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Chef Wanted Season 2: Anne Burrell says the tests are even harder

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Chef Wanted Season 2: Anne Burrell says the tests are even harder

In her nearly 25 years in the restaurant business, Food Network star chef Anne Burrell has seen and done it all — right down to teaching the tricks of the trade at New York’s Institute of Culinary Education. That’s why, she says, she feels right at home scouting executive chefs for some of America’s top restaurants in the network’s fascinating Chef Wanted With Anne Burrell, which launches its second season Thursday night at 10pm/9pmCT. “I have been in the restaurant industry since I was 19 and one thing that I love about this show is that it really shows people what restaurants [...]

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The Taste: Make Lauren Scott’s Flourless Chocolate Layer Cake

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The Taste: Make Lauren Scott’s Flourless Chocolate Layer Cake

Twenty-four-year-old Mississippi home cook Lauren Scott was the only contestant on last week’s premiere of ABC’s The Taste to make dessert – a flourless chocolate cake with a pistachio-bourbon ganache and pistachio brittle. And though the series’ judges Nigella Lawson, Anthony Bourdain, Ludo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey only got a spoonful of the decadent dessert, it was enough to wow all three and convince proud dessert-lover Lawson to choose Scott for her team.   If you missed last week’s premiere, here’s the gist: all four judges will assemble a team of four cooks — some professional, some not — to mentor [...]

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7 Questions With … Hines Ward of “Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off”

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7 Questions With … Hines Ward of “Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off”

He’s the legendary Pittsburgh Steeler who broke records (and one opponent’s jaw) on the field, then broke hearts in the Dancing With the Stars ballroom before retiring from the NFL last May to become an NBC football analyst. Now Hines Ward is testing his game in a whole new arena — the kitchen — as a contestant on Season 2 of Food Network’s Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, battling Johnny Weir, Kathy Najimy, Carnie Wilson, Gilbert Gottfried and others for celeb-chef supremacy. “I thought it would be good that people can see a side of me that they don’t normally get [...]

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Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant review: An average guy’s take

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Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant review: An average guy’s take

When my editor found out I was heading to NYC for the Macy’s parade over Thanksgiving, she thought it would be a perfect chance to see if the Guy Fieri Guy’s American Kitchen and Bar was the tasteless disaster that the New York Times proclaimed it to be. With the Pete Wells scathing review in hand, my partner and I arrived at the Guy Fieri restaurant in Times Square with the mindset that this may be a true low point on our trip. We entered the restaurant and waited a short time for the hostess who then proceeded to lead [...]

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Semi-Homemade star Sandra Lee hits the road for two new shows

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Semi-Homemade star Sandra Lee hits the road for two new shows

Longtime Food Network favorite Sandra Lee is leaving her semi-homemade masterpieces behind and hitting the road for a pair of new series, Sandra’s Restaurant Remakes and Sandra’s Taverns, Lounges & Clubs. On Sandra’s Restaurant Remakes, which premieres Sunday, Oct. 14 at 10am ET on Food Network, Lee visits famous restaurants and food spots across the nation in search of the secrets to their most famous dishes, then takes recreates them in simpler fashion for harried home cooks. In the premiere episode, “On Top of the World Tastes,” Lee makes a chicken variation of a memorable duck dish she had at ultra-chic AlizĂ© [...]

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“How Booze Built America” arrives on Discovery

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“How Booze Built America” arrives on Discovery

Booze. Beer. No matter on what side of the fence you sit — whether you support the Temperance League or are a hopelessly indulgent, unapologetic boozer — alcohol has always been a subject that inspires passion. But did you know that it also helped to shape America? Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe does, and he’s taking viewers on a cross-country trip to illustrate how it all went down in Discovery Channel’s three-part series, How Booze Built America, premiering tonight at 10pm ET/PT. How Booze Built America has Rowe taking us back to the very roots of this country, to the days [...]

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GSN offers home cooks chance to “Beat the Chefs”

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GSN offers home cooks chance to “Beat the Chefs”

Have you ever eaten at a restaurant, tasted your entrée and thought to yourself, “I could make this better”? Aside from feeling somewhat ripped off, it’s an experience that can leave you wanting a little revenge. With GSN’s new series Beat the Chefs, home cooks now have the opportunity to get a bit of it. Pitting amateur home cooks against serious professional chefs in an hourlong combat for bragging rights and a cash prize as they war it out making the same dish for a panel of judges, this competition series — hosted by American Idol finalist Matt Rogers — [...]

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Tyler Florence and “The Great Food Truck Race” are back … with a twist

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Tyler Florence and “The Great Food Truck Race” are back … with a twist

It seems like only a few years ago that they came out of nowhere and pulled up into our awareness to feed our appetites and our imaginations. Food trucks have been around for a while now, and for people interested in seriously good and innovative eating, they’re one of the most happening culinary developments around. They boast relatively low overhead and, let’s face it, not a little amount of sex appeal. It’s an attractive business to be in, and more and more people are getting it in their heads to get behind the wheel and behind the stove. And that’s [...]

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