There's smoke in the air -- but no need to sound the alarm! It's just some of your favorite Food Network chefs lighting the charcoal for the Best Thing They Ever Made ... GRILLED. From a 24-ounce rib-eye fit for an Iron Chef to Vietnamese-inspired chicken wings, get ready to make your summer barbecues the best ever!
Guy Fieri has tasted burgers from coast to coast, and now he's sharing one of his all-time favorites. It's the juicy, cheesy Pimento Cheese Stuffed Burger stacked high with a fried heirloom tomato, Homemade Spicy Ranch Dressing, crispy bacon and cabbage slaw. Spicy Baked Shredded Potato Nuggets seasoned with homemade barbecue seasoning finish off the plate. So money!
Nothing says summer like a good old-fashioned barbecue on the beach. Giada De Laurentiis and her weekend guests cook up a feast made almost entirely on the outdoor grill. The seasonal surf and turf menu features Grilled Plum Salad, Spicy Melon Salad, Grilled Skirt Steak with Smoky Herb Sauce and Grilled Halibut with Olive Bagna Cauda.
Your favorite Food Network stars come clean about their most intimate Guilty Pleasure secrets! Comedian David Alan Grier is dead serious about a Hollywood fried chicken feast, Daphne Brogdon steers us towards a sky-high barbecue meat plate, Bobby Flay raves about tenderloin topped with crab and butter sauce, Katie Lee directs us to some macho nachos, and more!
As the birthplace of American blues and the cradle of Southern cooking, the Mississippi Delta is the perfect stop on the Deen Brothers' road trip. Bobby and Jamie take in the best music and food Mississippi has to offer, including barbecue elk brisket, beef tamales with chili, collard greens, and rice and peas with homemade gravy.
Robert Irvine is in Nutter Fort, W.V., where a West Virginian-Italian-American-barbecue-family restaurant has a confused identity and is in for one of the biggest transformations ever. Single dad Mike Audia is going to lose his restaurant and his home unless Robert puts everything he has into helping him turn the restaurant around.
Nothing gives Nancy Fuller a greater thrill than putting the pedal to the metal in her farm truck, so she's grilling up a race-themed menu for her family before they head out to the racetracks. She's making Grilled Barbecue Chicken Sandwiches, Grilled Fruit and Vegetable Kabobs, Victory Lap Nachos, and for dessert, Checkered Flag Cake.
This trip, Guy's meeting up with credible combos. In Brooklyn, N.Y., the barbecue joint mashin' up a variety of styles for their unique wings and their big time beef ribs. And in Manteo, N.C., the husband and wife tag-teaming in the kitchen to deliver on soft shell crab quesadilla, tuna tacos, and shrimp and chorizo.
Host Alex Guarnaschelli meets the four competing chefs in Glendale, Calif., where they hand out cash to shoppers to get ingredients for their best barbecue dish. Then the chefs are seeing triple as they cook up a tasty triple-decker, and in the final round, two chefs find that cinnamon and sugar aren't as sweet as they think.
Forget mediocre munchies! Only the best barbecue and premier pies pique our interest as Food Paradise discovers the most-decorated dishes in the US. Grab a slice of the best Key lime pie in -- where else? -- Key West, FL, crack into beautiful steamed crabs in Baltimore and get your hands on swordfish tacos in Los Angeles.