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Hooking an Audience
In true Food Network Star fashion, mentors Bobby and Giada waste no time in assigning the finalists their first challenge of the competition. The name of the game this week is introductions, and on TV that means what Giada terms "a cold open." It's up to the finalists to film their own cold opens in the hopes of intriguing an audience — and the mentors. "Don't forget," Bobby says. "We need your culinary identity."