Mike from Marietta, Okla., has won more than 1,000 competitive cooking contests with his homemade BBQ Brisket. He's never given his secret recipe to anyone, until Sunny arrives. Sunny's favorite pie is her Grandmother Williams' Squash Pie. She's been eating it since she was a girl, but has never gotten the recipe — until now. Sunny heads to her grandmother's kitchen in Fayetteville, N.C., where her Grandmother finally gives Sunny the recipe.
Sunny's in Brooklyn to get the home recipe of Dave's Arancini al Ragu. Dave perfected his recipe for this Italian fried rice ball in Sicily, and now is the owner of Arancini Brothers. And while at the restaurant, Sunny gets Dave to reveal another recipe, the Bianco, Rosso Verde Arancini. Sunny then heads to Somers, N.Y. to meet Lucille, whose recipe for Swordfish Balls has been passed down in her family for 100 years and is a Christmas tradition.
Sunny Anderson and Amanda Freitag enlist the help of chefs Ed Oliveira and Eric McCree -- two chefs that Sunny knows personally -- to conquer Bobby Flay's kitchen.