Your favorite Food Network stars reveal their best-kept, most-intimate, guilty-pleasure secrets for the first time ever! We visit the locations and meet the chefs who make these crazy, ooey-gooey, “I-can't-believe-I'm-eating-this” food masterpieces!
Ten Dollar Dinners is a television program hosted by Melissa d'Arabian. It debuted August 9, 2009 at 12:30 PM EST. Melissa d'Arabian is the winner of the fifth season of The Next Food Network Star.
The second season of her program premiered in January 2010 on the Food Network. During this season, she received a new kitchen set, which has the set up similar to a home kitchen. The third season of her program premiered in July 2010.
In each show, Melissa d'Arabian shows the viewers how to cook up a dinner for four people based on a $10 budget. She shares tips she personally uses to save money while shopping. Each episode has its own theme and usually consists of an appetizer, main course, and dessert. In the beginning of each episode she recites her promise: "Four people, ten bucks, infinite possibilities".
From flour to fondant, these baking duos are known for their spectacular cake designs, but which team has the skills and artistry to put them a tier above the rest? Six talented baking teams competing for the $25,000 grand prize and the title of Wedding Cake Champion.
Down Home with the Neelys is a Food Network show hosted by Patrick and Gina Neely. The show depicts the Neelys sharing dishes and recipes. Taped in their Memphis home, the show, which has a relaxed demeanor, now airs seven days a week on Food Network.
Iron Chefs Bobby Flay, Jose Garces, Michael Symon, Alex Guarnaschelli and Stephanie Izard face all-star chefs in an elite culinary competition of the highest order. Whose cuisine will reign supreme?
Acclaimed chefs, cookbook authors and Food Network personalities, people who have spent their lives obsessing over food reveal not only what they love to eat, but what they love to make. From personal family recipes to favorite dishes off their own menus, these food experts share their secrets and show us how to cook what they consider to be The Best Thing I Ever Made.
Self-taught baker, teacher and cookbook author Gesine Prado believes anyone can bake; from sweet cakes, cookies and pies to savory meals, she shares tips that show how baking can be easy, accessible and fun.
How to Boil Water is an American television program. One of the first shows on the Food Network, it began broadcasting in 1993 and was first hosted by Emeril Lagasse. The focus of the show is simple cooking, as the show's title suggests, and is directed at those who have little cooking skill or experience.
In the beginning of the history of Food Network, How To Boil Water was the trademark show of the network. As Emeril's personal popularity grew, he eventually moved on to his own show, Essence of Emeril. How to Boil Water continued with the tandem of comedian Sean Donnellan and chef Cathy Lowe. With this duo, the show followed the formula of a chef teaching somebody with no experience.
After Donnellan and Lowe, Frederic van Coppernolle along with comedian Lynne Koplitz, then later Jack Hourigan, were the show's hosts. The show's format followed the formula similar to when Emeril hosted. Today, they are back to the chef-and-student model with chef Tyler Florence and Jack continuing as co-host.
Award-winning pastry chef Stephanie Boswell and her team focus on one crashing bakery and figure out how to completely makeover their business. To stop these pastry shops from bleeding money, she must freshen up stale recipes and revamp dingy storefronts, along with HGTV designers Lauren Makk and Breegan Jane, to get customers back in the door. Stephanie does not sugarcoat the truth from the bakery owners as she diagnoses their problems. With her sharp eyes, razor wit and loving compassion, Stephanie can transform these battered pastry shops and bakeries into gleaming showrooms filled with delicious sweets and vibrant, eye-popping desserts.
Hit the road with Mark and Ryan, BFF dads with a combined love of all things grilled, fried, creative and downright flavorful. They'll showcase some of the most-epic bites to leave you wanting more-and perhaps serve up a few dad jokes while they're at it.
Ask Aida is an interactive cooking show on the Food Network hosted by Aida Mollenkamp. The show began airing on August 2, 2008. On Ask Aida, Noah Starr serves as the "tech guru" sorting through then asking the many culinary questions sent to Mollenkamp via email, text, phone calls and video. Also during each episode, Noah tries to "stump" Aida with a crazy ingredient or gadget. Each show also has an advertisement telling viewers how they can get a link to that episode's recipes via text message.
For Season 2, the format of the show changed slightly, Starr was removed from the program.
Sugar Rush is a TV show on the Food Network hosted by Warren Brown, a former lawyer who decided to become a pastry chef. Brown, who runs a pastry shop, Cake Love, and cafe, Love Cafe in Washington, DC, meets other pastry chefs and dessert makers and cooks with them. The show is currently in its second season, first airing in June 2006.
David Rocco's Dolce Vita is a television show hosted by David Rocco. The show is shot on location in and around the cities and countrysides of Italy, following the cultural, social, and culinary escapades of David and his friends. Besides cooking, the show explores the Italian ways of life and ways of food in this culture exposé. David and his wife Nina traipse around Florence and Sicily, cooking dinner for friends, checking out local hot spots, and living the sweet life.
The recipes that David makes are generally easy to follow, classic Italian dishes. The whole concept behind the cooking aspect of the program is that good cooking doesn't have to be difficult. The dishes he makes are always elegant and impressive, but simple and quick. Some episodes deal with thematic recipes, such as "The Hunt for Funghi". Other episodes include "The Party", "Boy's Night Out", and "Rocco and the City".