Host Guy Fieri welcomes his friends to the Flavortown Lounge for an epic night of games and food, including a crazy cake decorating challenge and ridiculous-but-true food trivia! He and Chef Antonia Lofaso bring in the legendary actor/comedian Cheech Marin, host extraordinaire Maria Menounos, comic actor Billy Gardell and their friends for a competition that's all in good fun while raising money for charity. Only one team will leave with the coveted golden frying pan, and the rest will go up in smoke!
The celebrity recruits put their culinary knowledge to the test in a game of food and pop-culture related trivia. Afterwards, Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray demonstrate their own versions of the ultimate comfort food, chicken and waffles, which their teams must replicate exactly. The least successful recruits go head-to-head in a high-stakes butchering challenge.
A vacation is that time when you don't have to worry about cooking–unless you want to. Some vacations center around food and Jim O'Connor is on a quest to find them. He jets off to the Caribbean where an entire resort is dedicated to cooking and cuisine, then moves west to Montana to explore foods inspired by the wilderness. Last but not least, he'll get cozy at a favorite amongst vacation spots–a New England bed and breakfast.
The Kitchen is sharing new mashup recipes to liven up the winter cooking routine, starting with Katie Lee's Cheesesteak Skillet Pizza. Jeff Mauro shares a new way to eat greens in a Miso Caesar Salad, and Geoffrey Zakarian shakes up Taco Tuesday with his Thai-Style Rotisserie Chicken Tacos. Chef Nyesha Arrington stops by to make her Aisoon Short Ribs with Sweet Potato Grits, and Sunny Anderson makes the ultimate dessert for breakfast lovers, Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding. Finally, the hosts check out breakfast trends and decide which ones are worth trying.
Alex Guarnaschelli has four chefs rise and shine to whip up breakfast worth going back to bed for. Then, the remaining competitors attempt to bag their lunch and the competition before judges Antonia Lofaso and Carlos Anthony reveal the true dinner winner.
Bobby Flay tests the remaining seven finalists by having them put their culinary point of view on a classic American dish – the burger! The finalists must whip up their ideal burger while sharing personal stories and their connections to their dish. The best burger lands a place on the menu of Bobby's new restaurant venture Bobby's Burger Palace.
Then, Guy Fieri and USA WEEKEND Magazine associate editor, TJ Walter, surprise the finalists on the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, challenging each of them to create a dish using a basket of international ingredients for a group of returning American soldiers.
The winner learns that his or her recipe will be featured on the July 3-5th cover of USA WEEKEND Magazine, and another finalist is eliminated.
Entrepreneurs pitch a revolutionary coffee-brewing device, a high-protein nut butter that has fitness buffs losing their shirts, a surprising ice cream that runs hot and cold, the hippest chicken nuggets on the planet, and a hot dog that survived World War II.
Molly Yeh makes a mighty Midwestern "big girl lunch" to treat her oldest daughter! They bond over a creamy and cheesy Chicken Fajita Hotdish and ooey-gooey Monster Cookie Crispy Rice Treats on the side. Then, dinner's a delicious doozy for the fam with hearty Chinese Black Bean Sloppy Joes and slurp-able Wild Rice Soup.
Michael Symon uses peppers to showcase the treats of early fall with Stuffed Peppers with Eggplant and Cheesy Rice, Fennel Salad with Citrus and The Red Bell cocktail.
Michael Symon uses peppers to showcase the treats of early fall with Stuffed Peppers with Eggplant and Cheesy Rice, Fennel Salad with Citrus and The Red Bell cocktail.