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Food Network’s Ultimate Recipe Showdown premieres on March 14 at 10:00 p.m., hosted by Guy Fieri. Ultimate Recipe Showdown is a home cooking competition series featuring viewers of Food Network. Over 12,000 recipes were submitted out of which 24 recipes of prospective participants were chosen for this season’s competition. The chosen home cooks have an opportunity to feature their favorite recipe, whether the recipe is an adapted recipe, a recipe passed down from generation to genration or an inspired original recipe that is a favorite of friends and family alike.

The six week competition features recipes in the following categories: Burgers, Cakes, Comfort Food, Desserts, Hot and Spicy, or Hometown Favorites. The top recipes chosen for each category compete each week for top honors, a prize of $25,000 and the chance to have his or her recipe on the menu nationwide at T.G.I. Friday’s® restaurants.

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Food Network has a new show set on Friday night, it is a chef challenge show pitting two Food Network chefs against new contestants every week. The show takes place in different cities across the country. The Food Network chefs challenge local foodies to a contest of skill, speed and wit as they take on a variety of food contests with one team as the ultimate winner of the episode.

This new reality TV Food Network show is similar to an Amazing Race style of competition with the chefs competing against local chefs or foodies in each city they visit. Chef Sánchez and Chef Cosentino must use their cooking skills in each episode. The contests can vary for each episode whether it be tasting food, eating contests, identifying ingredients of food, or making food, their chef skills are put to good use.

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Dinner Impossible sets show host Chef Robert Irvine in difficult to impossible situations when it comes to creating meals for special events. The premise of the show is for Chef Irvine and his crew to arrive at a location without knowing what the challenge will be. Chef Irvine creates a menu allowing certain ingredients and following whatever specific set of rules are provided in order to create the meal for lucky participants of the event within an allotted challenge time.

Chef Irvine has a tendency to go beyond the requirements of each Dinner Impossible task, adding additional items to the menu. Irvine pushes himself and his kitchen crew, usually comprised of his chefs George and David, along with other kitchen help provided at the location. Sometimes the kitchen help at locations can be helpful, such as other professional chefs while other times Chef Irvine works with location staff or volunteers who barely know how to peel a potato. The combination of the unknown along with quick action needed to create a menu of food suitable for the event in a timed manner can be challenging even to this experienced chef.

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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives is a food travel series hosted by chef Guy Fieri. This Food Network series travels all across the United States to diners, drive-ins and dives, familiar watering holes that regular folks and fans of Food Network frequent.

Guy spends his time with restaurant owners who show him their specialty recipes they serve to their customers. Part of the fun of the show is Fieri’s interaction with the customers as they eat. Guy is pretty likeable and the customers are always happy to chat with him about how good the food is at their favorite place. The show also features classic American cars that Fieri drives when arriving at the selected restaurants.

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