Giada joins the cast & crew of The Sopranos to celebrate the launch of their final season. The gang will be gathering at one of New York City's landmark venues for the kickoff bash, and needless to say they'll be expecting a feast! As the design team transforms the space into an Italian street fair, the catering team will be busy bringing new spins to Italian favorites like Mama's Baked Ziti, Sausage & Peppers and a very special "Soprano" Cake. Knowing the potential consequences, the catering team is on their toes to pull off this monumental bash.
Plan a Sopranos Party Sad this season of The Sopranos is over? Enjoy one more night with your favorite Italian family when Giada goes behind the scenes at one of their premiere parties. Use our Italian wine primer to pick out a perfect wine, and plan a multi-course Italian meal that would make Carm proud. Then kick back and enjoy the show!
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The kitchens are blazing as firefighters work to open restaurants with the people closest to them. College fraternity brothers John Sierp II, firefighter and owner of a catering company in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Jeffrey Waters, assistant general manager at an Atlanta restaurant, live far apart but their love of food and the restaurant industry has kept them bonded as they create their seafood and steakhouse restaurant called Seven-20. Twin brothers from Santa Rosa, Calif., Michael Graves, sales manager for a local trucking company, and Kris Graves, firefighter, use each other's strengths to help them open Enigma, serving comfort food classics with a touch of class.
In this battle of the besties, two completely opposite teams compete for their dream restaurant while their personalities and opposing lifestyles bring extra heat to the kitchen. Dana Chaney, brand development director for a restaurant group, and Nikki Heaps-Martin, a personal chef and catering manager, bring their West Hollywood, Calif. sparkle to the kitchen as they move past their differences and work as friends to create their globally-inspired seafood restaurant, The Famished Lamb. From Dallas, Texas, best friends Marcus Thompson, a restaurant manager, and Fred Messick, an executive sous chef, are perceived as rough-around-the-edges but get serious with their edgy healthy comfort food restaurant, The Citizen.
Giada heads to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, to attend a spectacular bash celebrating 50 years of Disney theme park magic. With more than 3,000 VIP’s invited to a 50th anniversary celebration of Walt Disney’s first theme park, the catering team at Walt Disney World kicks into action to make sure it’s a party worthy of the Disney name. On the menu are such delectable treats as Mongolian Beef, Shrimp with Crab Claws, Two Terrific Tacos, and a Butterfinger Cheesecake that would do Mickey proud. But as the clock ticks down to the big event, the team has a lot of challenges to deal with — including a brewing storm that threatens to rain on Mickey’s parade!
She's known around the world as the domestic goddess, a global superstar with a hit TV show and a string of award winning best seller cook books. But life wasn't always so sweet for this once painfully shy girl whose mother was a catering heiress and father, one of Britain's leading politicians. Nigella suffered her parents' divorce in the glare of publicity that was followed by an appalling triple tragedy. She was left a young widow with two small children after cancer claimed not only her younger sister and her mother but also the beloved husband who she had met as a young journalist and who helped set her on the road to stardom. Now happily remarried, this international superstar continues to bring her irresistible vivacity, charm and passion to cook to millions of fans.