Season 8 Food Network Star winner Justin Warner is hitting the road for his new show and biggest challenge yet — finding the real culinary rebels of America. Armed with $300 for gas, a beat-up car and a nose for good food and crazy characters, Justin travels the backroads of the South to try everything from Moonshine and Bacon Beer to Deep-fried PB&J, Jellyfish Salad and bowling alley barbecue served in a mason jar.
Cooking steak on a grill can be intimidating, so Michael Symon demonstrates simple techniques for grilling skirt steak to tender, medium-rare perfection. Then, he complements the steak with Sticky Barbecue Onions fired up in a cast-iron skillet with brown sugar, Dijon mustard, cayenne and cumin. To round out his outdoor edition of meat and potatoes, Michael uses a second grill for Cheesy Hash Brown Potatoes that feature grated cheddar cheese, sour cream, butter and garlic.
It's a week of big machine cakes at Freed's Bakery as Sonny Robinson digs into a huge yellow excavator perched atop rippled layers of delicious earth. Aubrie Virgin makes a miniature barbecue feast to accompany a big RV cake. Then, the team has to finish a 5-foot-long cake of the world's biggest observation wheel, the High Roller, and Max Fried scrambles to make the wheel spin and light up in time for the big reveal.
Robert Irvine invites four new chefs on a virtual global journey to test their skills and versatility with regional food. Upon landing in Florence, Italy, the chefs must prove they can make pasta from scratch. Three chefs move on to the second round in Memphis, home of low-and-slow barbecue. Only two chefs move on to the final city, Kyoto, Japan, where they must create a dish using fresh tofu for the one and only Chef Masaharu Morimoto.
Sniffing out recipes and tips from the Barbecue Masters, Al Roker interviews some of the finest chefs from around the world at the Annual World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.
Chinese barbecued pork is a favorite whether served on its own or enriching dishes like lo mein, fried rice and pork buns. Jet Tila shows how to cut, marinate and oven-roast the pork to get the tender, super-flavorful results this dish is famous for.
In Cathedral City, California, Chef Michael Symon gets an eye-opening experience from a super spicy burger that uses raw habaneros, fried serranos and ghost pepper cheese.