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For the first time ever, the Food Network will have a rare special get-together of their top chefs with this year’s Thanksgiving holiday. Bobby Flay, Rachel Ray, Sunny Anderson, Alex Guarnaschelli, Melissa D’Arabian, and Alton Brown will all be in the kitchen cooking everybody’s favorite starter, main, and side dishes while answering your questions. The show will air on  Sunday, November 20, 12 pm to 2pm EST. Hey, it’s still not too late for you to throw in your burning questions that these chefs will try to answer live via the Food Network Channel.

You could send your questions through:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FoodNetwork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23FNThanksgiving with the hash tag FNThanksgiving.
You could also post your questions at the Food Network blog with this link:Food Network Blog: http://blog.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/2011/10/18/thanksgiving-live-questions/

If you like to send in your questions through live voice call, you could:

E-mail the Food Network producers who are currently looking for Skype viewers and callers who would like to be a part of their show. Send them your name, location, email, home telephone number, Skype name, and your Thanksgiving question and a Food Network producer might contact you for further information. If you get picked, you get to call in your question to the chefs and ask about perennial Thanksgiving problems you frequently encounter and the chefs might be able to help you in a jiffy. Send your e-mail at:  thanksgivinglive@foodnetwork.com.

With this special Live! broadcast of the Food Network, fans and holidaymakers will get to enjoy the signature dishes that the chefs will cook and contribute as they work on their own kitchens. The attending chefs will then all celebrate together and get a taste of the dishes they’ve all shared to the dining table. Food guru Alton Brown is the lucky one who will have the honor of curving the turkey.

So if you have any persistent meal-making questions regarding Thanksgiving, hurry now and make sure you get to participate in this rare chance of having your problem solved quickly by star chefs through Food Networking Thanksgiving Live! And don’t forget to spread the word to your friends and loved ones about this once-in-a-lifetime chance of interacting with Rachel, Bobby, Sunny, Alex, Melissa, and Alton.

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Institute of Culinary Education instructor Anne Burrell is among the contestants most familiar with Kitchen Stadium, having worked there as a sous chef for Mario Batali. Burrell’s experience dicing and slicing beside Batali in battle may give her an edge of over her Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs peers. That she hosts Food Network’s Secrets of a Restaurant Chef proves she has extra tricks up both sleeves.

49-year-old Michael Chiarello has been known to serve wood grilled chops of grass-fed lamb, Gulf prawns and 21-day dry aged prime rib-eye at his micro-regional Italian eatery Bottega in Napa Valley. The super chef is also the host of Food Network series Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello.

Chuck Hughes is another very familiar face from the upcoming season; this Canadian super chef is both co-owner of Montreal’s Garde-Manger and host of Cooking Channel program Chuck’s Day Off. Hughes proved his worth last year when he got the best of Iron Chef Bobby Flay, which fans know the challenger doesn’t win often in the tough arena.

Perhaps the best known of the contestants is behind the same face which appears at the center of the new season’s main press photo: Robert Irvine. The star of both Restaurant: Impossible and Dinner: Impossible owns Hilton Head Island restaurant Robert Irvine Eat!, and – as if that weren’t enough – his experiences under the high pressure of televised competition also include a stint on Worst Cooks in America.

The exciting series premiere of The Next Iron Chef Super Chef is set to take place October 30th at 9pm on the Food Network, when the floodgates of culinary talents will open and the cutthroat competition will officially begin.

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Have you heard about the new Food Network Tour Vacations – we have all the details!

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Have you heard about the Food Network Tours for 2012: they visit Italy, France & California

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For the elimination challenge, the remaining contestants try to serve the 300 pilots and crew from the USAF Air Demonstration Squadron based at Nellis Air Force Base with the same Pride, Precision and Professionalism on deck that the Thunderbirds show in the air.  They were all to work as a team, but were not given an idea of what ingredients or cooking conditions they would have until they arrived at the base. Back at the house, the chefs chose Jennifer to lead the team since she had immunity, while the rest split up in groups of two to cook separate dishes.  Once they arrived in the kitchen, they saw canned items and vegetables, but no stoves and no individual pans, just over sized woks and kettles. The guest judge was Colonel Mark Peel.

Greek salad, pasta salad, three bean chili with roasted chicken, braised pork shoulder with potato salad, roasted beef strip loin and chocolate bread pudding with peanut butter sauce were some of the dishes served.

Michael Voltaggio won the challenge.   Michael Isabella was brought down a notch by being in the bottom three for his bland shrimp salad, and did not take the criticism well from the judges.  In the end, Preeti was eliminated, as the judges were unimpressed by the pasta salad she and her partner Laurine prepared.

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If you visit Bravo’s website, you’ll notice they are involving former Top Chef Contestants this season.  Fabio Viviani shows you how to make Bryan Voltaggio’s winning recipe.  Brian Marlarkey provides a healthy alternative to this week’s winning dish. Plus, a recipe and blog.

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One thing that stood out immediately, is that there seemed to be much more experienced chefs among these contestants than in previous seasons. Also never featured a family rivalry…two talented brothers Bryan and Michael Voltaggio will battle for the title.

The quick fire challenge placed contestants in groups for a relay race that involved shucking 16 clams, peeling 30 prawns, cleaning 5 lobsters and butchering two chop for prime rib.

For the elimination challenge, contestants have to choose a personal vice and cook to express their bad habits through food. Of course many had similar vices of alcohol or smoking. Wolfgang Puck appeared as a guest judge.  The winner was Kevin Gillspie for his Arctic Char with Salsa Verde of Turnips. I personally thought that Michael Voltaggio’s vice of voluptuous women, was brought out creatively through his “rack” of lamb and coconut sauce, as well as the alcohol vice brought out in Jennifer Carroll’s dish, poached halibut with whiskey, bouron and scotch sauce.

If you love to cook, this is the show for you, as I have to say out of all the shows, this is where I have learned the most. 

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As the dog days of summer wind down and Labor Day approaches, Chef Emeril fires up the barbeque and heads into the Maryland countryside! Lagasse visits a local farmstead where he shows viewers how to prepare a smokin’ end-of-summer meal in Grillin’ with Emeril, premiering Monday, August 31 at 8:00 p.m. E/P. Join the community cookout as Chef Emeril presents his best grilling tips and techniques, and explores the resources required to bring food from the field to the table. Chef Emeril takes viewers on an in-depth tour of the farm and showcases:

• using community supported agriculture to create mouth-watering summer treats;
• how to grill fresh ingredients without losing important nutrients and flavor;
• utilizing garden herbs for savory drinks.

EMERIL GREEN CALIFORNIA SPECIAL AND ORIGINAL EPISODES 
Premieres Monday, November 30 at 8:00 p.m. ET

Emeril Green California Specials (wt) will take viewers to one of the country’s most progressive and dedicated organic and sustainable farming areas – Sonoma and Napa Valleys. At the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley, see a school leading the way with its commitment to local ingredients and sustainable farming practices. New students arrive each semester to study the art of food preparation, and wine education; with the land so rich in ingredients, they quickly come to realize the importance of knowing where their food has been grown. While the school may provide the canvas for these culinary artists in training, the local farms and food purveyors supply the materials. Follow a few students and teachers as they mix it up with Chef Emeril to create a local, seasonal menu from ingredients all from within a 150 miles radius. Beginning in October, Chef Emeril’s tour of wine country will include:

• visiting a farm that uses solar power and biodiesel fuels for all its energy needs;
• learning more about sustainable fishing and water conservation practices;
• exploring the in’s and out’s of organic farms.

EMERIL GREEN VERMONT SPECIAL AND ORIGINAL EPISODES

There’s something very exciting happening in the small town of Hardwick, VT. It’s a town of environmentally conscious young agricultural entrepreneurs who are trying to create a sustainable farming community. This eclectic group of ecopreneurs is working toward a common goal to adopt a unique, innovative approach to supporting sustainable agriculture and is doing so by using only entirely local resources. Join Chef Emeril as he explores the town and learns more about the people that inhabit this bucolic place in an original special premiering in 2010. Travel with Chef Emeril as he visits the following locales:

• a business dedicated to providing organic growers with certified organic seed;
• a 205 year-old family farm that makes freshly pressed cider;
• an award winning environmentally conscious brewery.

Emeril Green (airing Mondays at 8:00 p.m. E/P), hosted by Chef Emeril Lagasse, helps real people solve cooking problems by utilizing fresh and organic sources of food to promote a healthier lifestyle. Many of the meals prepared on the show support sustainable fare by choosing ingredients from local sources and fair trade options. Shot mainly on location at Whole Foods Market(R), Chef Emeril works with everyday cooks who have real culinary challenges. To see clips of this show go here.

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Planet Green and its two robust websites planetgreen.com and TreeHugger.com, offer unique, original, insightful, inspiring, and entertaining content related to how we can evolve to live a better, brighter future. Planet Green’s unique programming, digital tools, and content will enlighten, empower and most certainly, entertain.

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