Food Network Chefs Are Hosting Live Classes From Their Homes, and I’m Ready to Cook
If cooking up a storm and trying new recipes has become your stay-at-home hobby, you’ll want to add the Food Network‘s live cooking series to your watchlist ASAP. In partnership with Amazon, Food Network Kitchen is offering a free one-year subscription to Fire TV and Fire Tablet customers. The subscription will give viewers access to live and on-demand cooking classes from chefs like Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri, Rachael Ray, Martha Stewart, and Giada De Laurentiis. So, yes, I’m ready for a trip to Flavortown.
To kick off the news of the free one-year subscriptions, the network will also host a two-day virtual cook-along weekend from May 2 to May 3. The We Cook Together Weekend event will feature 10 live cooking classes and Q&As hosted by famous chefs straight from their homes. Chefs participating in the live classes include Alex Guarnaschelli, Bobby Flay, Michael Symon, Valerie
New project High Road Kitchens helps restaurants provide food on a sliding scale
Seven weeks after California restaurants were told to close their dining rooms, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced a new initiative to help the restaurant industry, which has been decimated by the coronavirus outbreak. Called High Road Kitchens, the program helps fund a network of independent restaurants to provide meals on a sliding scale to folks in need.
The program, which is supported by both public and private funds, offers money to help restaurants reopen and re-employ their staff. Those restaurants, in turn, commit to provide livable wages and equity to their workers. The program is managed by One Fair Wage, a nonprofit that advocates for tipped workers, who make less than the minimum wage in all but seven states.
Food Network Just Dropped The Trailer For ‘Amy Schumer Learns To Cook’
Amy Schumer drops the trailer for her Food Network show “Amy Schumer Learns To Cook”
Amy Schumer announced last month that she and husband Chris Fischer, a professional chef, would self-film an at-home cooking show for the quarantine-era called “Amy Schumer Learns To Cook.” The show premieres on Food Network in about a week, and based on the just-dropped trailer, it is extremely up our alley.
The eight episode show was shot in Schumer and Fischer’s actual home-kitchen and will premiere on Food Network on Monday, May 11 at 10 p.m. The premise is that Fischer cooks while Schumer mixes cocktails, but based on the trailer, Schumer generally annoys her husband and serves up quips like “Get that fennel out of my face. I need my face, it’s my money maker, as they say in the biz,” to which her husband deadpans, “okay.” They have a cute dyanmic