Jamika, a certified personal chef and businesswoman, loves exploring international cuisines in the kitchen. Family, friends, and clients rave about her bold twists on traditional dishes, especially those of her Caribbean heritage. Innovative style, sassy personality, and inspiring tenacity are Jamika's key ingredients to the magic she produces in the kitchen.
Jaymee Sire is a food blogger and TV host. She is a former sports anchor with ESPN and has appeared as a judge on several Food Network shows, including Beat Bobby Flay and Food Network Star. Additionally, Jaymee served as the floor reporter on the premiere season of Iron Chef Showdown.
Geoffrey Zakarian, a master of modern American cuisine, has presided over some of the country’s top kitchens in the past 25 years. Currently, Geoffrey is chef/partner at The Lambs Club and The National in New York City as well as at The Water Club at Borgata in Atlantic City.
Iron Chefs Morimoto and Michiba join Gordon to invade the Rye, NY, home of the Linehans. The chefs whip up Potato Dumplings, Beer Battered Chicken, Potato Noodles,Quiche and Frozen Fish Stick Sushi. With music from accordionist Yuri Lemeshev.
Chef Jeff Henderson chronicles his amazing journey from a life of crime on the rough streets of South Central, LA to his days in prison, where he discovered his passion for cooking, which led him to eventually become the executive chef at Café Bellagio in Las Vegas, to his latest endeavor helping at-risk youth realize their potential in the kitchen.
Visit the home of a renowned pastry chef, Emily Luchetti, who designed her kitchen both for baking and entertaining. We'll also tour a new kitchen with truly historic roots.
Emeril and special guest Chef Charlie Trotter kick up some favorite dishes. Barbecued Shrimp with Rosemary Biscuits; Duck and Wild Mushroom Gumbo; Chocolate Pudding Cke with Coconut Ice Cream.
Vivian Howard, chef-owner of Chef & the Farmer in North Carolina, was a locavore way before it was cool. As a daughter of tobacco- and hog-farming parents, she ate with the ebb and flow of seasons in her hometown, Deep Run, North Carolina. But as an aspiring journalist, her dreams felt too big for butter beans and biscuits: she was plotting an escape to New York. “I just wanted night to sound like car horns and people instead of frogs and crickets,” she writes in her James Beard Award-nominated cookbook, Deep Run Roots.After college, Howard got a job in advertising, but when she found herself hiding on a vacant floor to take naps during her lunch break, she quit and finally gave in to her passion for food. From a server at Greenwich Village’s Voyage, she worked her way up to being a member of the opening team at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Spice Market. But eventually, Howard's roots called her back home, where she opened Chef & the Farmer to preserve, stew and transform the foods of her childhood into her own cuisine. The intimate relationship between chef, ingredients, and hometown became the subject of “A Chef’s Life,” the Peabody and Daytime Emmy award-winning series that also earned her a James Beard Award for Outstanding Personality/Host in 2016. “The ingredients are characters who shape my life," she writes. "Eastern North Carolina is my Tuscany, my Szechuan, my Provence.” Of course, hints of Italy make themselves known in her crunchy endive salad with Parmesan and pine nuts, while Southeast France peeks through in her spicy fish stew.Like Howard herself, her dishes may start out local, but they succumb to wanderlust. The recipes she’s made for Panna are no exception: BLT Dip, a blissful concoction that reimagines the flavors of an iconic American sandwich, includes a touch of tarragon and anchovy; her glazed pecans—aka "Viv's Addiction"—are tossed in a powerful mix of paprika, cumin, chipotle, and coriander. We can't wait for you to turn Howard's kaleidoscopic Southern dishes into traditions of your own.Vivian's Restaurants:Chef & the Farmer (Kinston, NC)Boiler Room (Kinston, NC)Benny's Big Time (Wilmington, NC)Vivian's Book:Deep Run Roots (2016)
Learn the backstage secrets surrounding rock stars and what they eat in order to perform at their peak. Go backstage with 'N Sync, Willie Nelson, Barenaked Ladies, Arlo Guthrie, Faith Hill,Tim McGraw and Tina Turner
It's a Swedish food emergency! Jill Sorrenson of McLean, VA, has a lot of trouble trying to find authentic, tasty Swedish food since moving to the States. Together they take on Pickled Herring, Swedish Meatballs, and Sweet Swedish Mustard.