Food Network Related News and Links

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Here are some recent Food Network related news items:

• Discovery+ is a streaming service launching in the United States in January that will feature all of Discovery's brands including Food Network.  There is a large library of shows and they will also have new, original content.  The new content listed for Food Network includes: Bobby and Giada in Italy, Cakealikes, Duff's Happy Fun Bake Time, Foodways with Carla Hall (working title), Luda Can't Cook, Mary McCartney Serves it Up, What's Eating Sebastian Maniscalo(working title), and Amy Schumer Learns to Cook: Uncensored. (Link with show descriptions).

• Guy Fieri is the executive producer of a documentary called Restaurant Hustle 2020: All On The Line. It follows chefs Maneet Chauhan, Antonia Lofaso, Christian Petroni, and Marcus Samuelsson as they document the challenges their restaurants faced during 2020.  It will premiere on Food Network Sunday, December 27th at 9pm ET/PT. (Link)

• Ree Drummond introduced her foster son to the world and he has been living with her family for a year and a half. (Link)

• Buddy Valastro had his hand impaled during an accident at his home bowling alley.  He has undergone multiple surgeries and continues to recover with hopes of being able to bake the way he used to. (Link)

• Carla Hall will be the mentor competing against Anne Burrell in the upcoming season of Worst Cooks in America scheduled to begin January 3rd at 9pm on Food Network. (Link)

• Here are some recent Food Network books that have released in the past month:

• Ina Garten - Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook 
• Alex Guarnaschelli -  Cook with Me: 150 Recipes for the Home Cook: A Cookbook
• Ree Drummond - Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere.  The story about her foster child is detailed in here.

Giada De Laurentiis New Cookbook Released - Plus Book Tour and TV Appearances

Giada De Laurentiis released another cookbook today titled Giada's Feel Good Food: My Healthy Recipes and Secrets.  This cookbook focuses on healthy recipes and how Giada stays thin.  The recipes include breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks and many are gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian or vegan.  You can preview much of the book and recipes with the link above and the "Look Inside" feature.

As is normally the case with cookbook releases, Giada will be going on a book tour and be appearing on TV to promote the book.  It is a pretty packed schedule that spans both coast and includes appearances on the Today Show, Jimmy Fallon, The View, and Watch What Happens: Live.  To see the dates of the book signings and TV appearances, continue reading:

Jamie Deen and Sunny Anderson Book Tours

Both Jamie Deen and Sunny Anderson released a cookbook today, and have book tours planned for signings.  Jamie's book is called Jamie Deen's Good Food: Cooking Up a Storm with Delicious, Family-Friendly Recipes, which has 125 family recipes including a special section in the back called Rooster’s Café that has a handful of Jamie's son Jack's kid-friendly recipes.  The foreword is also written by Paula Deen.

Sunny's book is called Sunny's Kitchen: Easy Food for Real Life, and features American classics made with her influences.  This is Sunny's first cookbook that she he has released.

(In each of the links above, if you click on the book that says Look Inside, you can look at many of the pages of the cookbooks)

The locations, dates, and times of each of their book tours are below if you are interested in seeing them.  Neither of them plan to go to the West Coast, which seems to be the case with most of the recent book tours.

Alex Guarnaschelli's Cookbook Releases Tomorrow - Plus Book Tour Dates

Alex Guarnaschelli's first cookbook Old-School Comfort Food: The Way I Learned to Cook comes out tomorrow.  It has 100 recipes along with stories of how she learned to cook.  The best price I have seen for it is on Amazon, and it is already the #1 best seller in the book category 'Home Entertaining.'

Alex is also doing a book tour if you are interested in getting a copy her cookbook signed.  The dates and locations for her tour are below (via FN Dish):

Monday, April 8: New York City
Event: 4:30-7:30 p.m., Kraft Kulinary Event at Columbia University