On All-Star Academy, Sundays at 9|8c, each team of home cooks is mentored by an expert Food Network chef. The four mentors pass on their culinary knowledge to their mentees, teaching them cooking skills, how to react to certain situations and how to deal with the pressures of time management. But the experts weren't born with this knowledge; they too had to learn it from someone when they were first coming up in the ranks as professional chefs. Their mentors also had to teach them technique and how to find focus in the kitchen.

FN Dish recently caught up with the mentors of All-Star Academy to find out who those influencers were, what they learned from them and how they made a difference in their lives, personally and professionally. Alex Guarnaschelli, Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone and Michael Symon reveal their mentors, and you might be surprised to find out some have even shared the same mentor, or have been one another's mentor.