Ina helps her friends daughter Tess cook a surprise dinner for her mum. This is party planning and a cooking master class combined - with recipes for Crab Cakes, Celeriac Roumolade Salad, and Lemon Meringue Tart.
Bobby Flay features Caja China- a small wooden "cooking" box that's noted for roasting whole pigs to perfection in just a few hours. Bobby prepares some Cuban cuisine: pork shoulder; black beans & rice; and grilled plantains.
First, we’ll meet two successful women who left behind their lucrative careers to start a coffee bar for moms. Next, we’ll meet two childhood best friends who were unhappy in their jobs and decided to set up their own cooking school.
Ina reveals the secrets of cooking with wine with recipes for Beef Short Ribs, Wild Mushroom Risotto and Fresh Raspberry Gratins, and gets the low down on cheese and wine pairings from her friend and wine expert Martine Warner. Then Ina is tackling everyone's wine questions in Ask Ina.
Alex Guarnaschelli challenges the four chefs to channel their competitiveness into cooking up a winning tailgate. The three who survive must create dishes to celebrate, and the two final competitors have to impress judges Esther Choi and Cliff Crooks with a delicious dippable dish in order to win a year's worth of groceries.