Food Fantasy Episodes
Season 1, Episode 1
Guess Who's coming to Dinner/The Family that Brews Together
Tom and Diane Faglon host a surprise dinner party for a chef in their home in Somerset, NJ. Brewer Matthew Brophy is surprised when his mother creates special recipes using his beer.
Season 1, Episode 2
Weak In The Knees and To Russia with Love
Debra Green cooks with her favorite chef, Georges Perrier, in Philadelphia, PA. Homesick Russian college student, Danila Shevrieko, enjoys a night of traditional celebration at the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C.
Season 1, Episode 3
Will Work for Sushi and Fantasy by Chocolate
Sushi addict, Tracey Bannet, takes a trip to New York to learn from her favorite sushi chef, Masaharu Morimoto. Beth Bressman spends the day in Williamsburg, VA, cooking with chocolate master Marcel DeSaulniers.
Season 1, Episode 4
Ski Getaway and Downstairs Diner
Amber McKeague enjoys a day in Aspen, CO, skiing her way to each gourmet meal including the St. Regis Hotel and Pine Creek Cookhouse. Josh Satloff's life-long dream of opening a diner is realized in his own home in Bloomfield, CT!
Season 1, Episode 5
Food Critic for a Day/The Frugal Cowboy
Lou Salerno spends his day as a food critic in Washington D.C., with Washingtonian Magazine Food Critic Cynthia Hacinli. East Coast cowboys Eric Braun and John Hogan go to an authentic campfire cookout with Kent Rollins in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Season 1, Episode 6
Whirley Burger/Picnic Playoff in Central Park NY
Food Fantasy hunts down a forgotten recipe for an Oklahoma Hamburger and brings the whole town of Muskogee back in time to the wonder years; Two friends must shop for present; And an editor of Food & Wine Magazine in a Picnic Play-off.
Season 1, Episode 7
Take the Girl from the River/Chef for a Day
Oklahoma city anchorwoman, Colleen O'Quinn, hits the Oklohoma rivers to fly-fish and to learn how to cook the catch but is surprised mid-river by her father. A man in NY fulfills his childhood dream and becomes chef-for-a-day at the prestigious restaurant, Vong.
Season 1, Episode 8
Move Your Luau/Cooking with Biba
A woman at work is whisked away by limo to the luau of her dreams with Roasted Pig, Sweet Chicken and Poi in Doylestown, PA. A woman in Ridgecrest, CA, gets a chance to thank Biba Caggiano, who's pasta recipes helped her recover from a mastectomy.
Season 1, Episode 9
Post-Baseball Game Meal / Pro-Football Player in Search of Momma's Cooking
A man marries his two passions in life, cooking and baseball, by creating a delicious post-game meal for the Florida Marlins. Philadelphia Eagles football player, Hollis Thomas, misses his mom--three NY chefs try their best to make him a homemade meal.
Season 1, Episode 10
Two Chubby Chicks/Fantasy on the Brandywine
Two chubby chicks who want a show like "The Two Fat Ladies" get 15 minutes of fame with a tryout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas with celebrity judge, Rita Rudner. A foodie fulfills her ultimate food and wine pairing fantasy at Chadd Ford Vineyard in Pennsylvania.
Season 1, Episode 11
Vine Wine & Dine/Food Fantasy 500
Two women indulge their food fantasies with a trip to Fetzer Vineyards and California Wine Country. A chef who loves auto racing cooks lunch for the drivers and crew of the Chip Ganassi racing team during the pre-qualifying heats at the Illinois Speedway.
Season 1, Episode 12
Key West Florida/Second Honeymoon/Wedding Proposal in Rockefeller Center
A couple's wedding money was stolen six years ago so Food Fantasy is taking the couple to Key West, for a second chance at a honeymoon. Next, a hopeless romantic would like to propose on national television at the Sea Grill at Rockefeller Center.
Season 1, Episode 13
Magical Bus Tour/Avocado Fantasy
A couple's fantasy involves dinner atop a doubledecker bus through the streets of Manhattan with guest chef Andrew DiCataldo of Patria in NY. A woman from Brooklyn NY gets an avocado spa treatment at Swissotel and an Avocado dinner at Quantum 56 in NY.
Season 1, Episode 14
Enchilada Ambush at FT Benning GA/Chainsaw Chef
A mom catches-up with her son at boot camp in Georgia and takes over the mess hall to give him a proper send-off. A housewife enters the Lumberjack Cooking Competition in the Connelsville, PA, Timber Days Festival.
Season 1, Episode 15
Chocolate Tour of NY/B&B Boot Camp
A husbands fulfills his wife's chocolate obsession with a tour of NY, including stops at La Maison du Chocolat, Li-Lac Chocolates and TriBakery. A stockbroker on Wall Street dreams of running her own bed-and-breakfast in Cape May, NJ.
Season 1, Episode 16
Someday Sommelier/World's Most Difficult Recipe
A self-professed wine expert with big city dreams of becoming a first class sommelier gets lessons from Andrea Immer and a tour of duty at a steakhouse. Chef Muller of Oceanaire Seafood in Washington D.C., helps a woman tackle a difficult recipe.
Season 1, Episode 17
Polishpalooza/Baker Baker
A married couple learn more about their polish heritage with sausages at local kielbasa factory, pierogies at Krystyna's Bakery and the P.K.M Polish Folk Dancers. A woman visits the Cupcake Cafe and Ecce Panis in NYC to learn their baking secrets.
Season 1, Episode 18
Teen Idol/Fraternity Etiquette Lessons at Indiana University
A seventeen year old girl and her fantasy: spending the day behind the scenes of Cooking Live with Sara Moulton. A junior pledgemaster from Indiana U. in P.A. gets his fraternity to take cooking and etiquette lessons.
Season 1, Episode 19
Cooking School Jam/Ye Olde Cookery
A woman's fantasy goes behind the scenes at the "School Jam" competition between Peter Kump's and the Culinary Institute of America. Two avid Renaissance fair fans enjoy a feast fit for a king at the Tarrytown Castle in NY.
Season 1, Episode 20
Return to Puerto Rico
A husband and wife grew up in Puerto Rico but haven't been back in years. So we fly the couple from Orlando to San Juan, where they learn how to cook traditional Puerto Rican dishes at the Ritz Carlton San Juan and then host an extended family reunion.
Season 1, Episode 21
Some Like It Hot/Fire Eater
Biker Billy Huffnagle cooks with fire for a woman and her friends in suburban Allentown, PA. Next, a woman in Savannah, Georgia, picks up "hot" cooking tips from fireman and cookbook author, Joe Bonanno.
Season 1, Episode 22
Suzanne Somers/Bermuda Fantasy
Food Fantasy takes a Jersey Heights, NJ, couple away from it all for a trip to Bermuda. Also, a woman having a hard time with Suzanne Somers fitness and dieting tips meets the source herself for dinner out at Granita in Malibu, CA.
Season 1, Episode 23
Bayou Bounty/Test Kitchen
Food Fantasy flies a couple that loves cajun from San Francisco to New Orleans. They visit the historic Woodlands Plantation and go on a fishing expedition on the bayou; A woman from Cordova, TN, fantasizes about experimenting in the Cooking Light Kitchen.
Season 1, Episode 24
Bar-De-Force/Mushroom Mycology Mayhem
Robin Dorian's own fantasy to learn bartending from the best is fulfilled at Napoleon House and Pat O'Brien's in New Orleans, Ocean Key in Key West, and Isla in NYC. Next, Robin takes a mushroom lover to Sher-Rockee Farms in PA.
Season 1, Episode 25
Music to His Ears/Johnny V's Restaurant
For years, a bassist has played at New York's finest restaurants but never gets to eat. Food Fantasy treats him to a feast at the Russian Tea Room in NYC. Also, Food Fantasy gives a man his own restaurant for a day...the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, PA.
Season 1, Episode 26
Tackle the Tailgate!
The winner of the Turning Leaf Contest's NFL Food Fantasy begins with a trip to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Florida. Once there, the contest winner will enjoy a huge tailgate party attended by two legends of the NFL, Tony Dorsett and Jim Kelly.
Season 1, Episode 27
Rare Holiday Off...
Featuring three people who would normally have to work on Christmas Day, Food Fantasy helps these three people and their families will get the chance to celebrate Christmas.
