‘Snack on This!’ shows how treats are made on Cooking Channel
As a nation, America aspires to eat healthy but let’s face it – we love our snacks. And an upcoming series may tell us a little more than what we want to know about them in a week of worthy offerings on Cooking Channel and Food Network.
On “Snack on This!,” premiering Wednesday,
Oct. 19, on Cooking Channel, host Kalen Allen (“Cakealikes”) takes viewers inside factories far and wide to show how favorite treats are made.
From Buffalo Wild Wings and Ramen Noodles to Coca-Cola and Jelly Bellies, Allen goes behind the scenes to reveal origin stories, amazing feats of manufacturing and the steps involved in bringing these comestibles to store shelves. Consider this a how-the-sausage-is-made story but without politicians or pork.
Also that night on Cooking is a new episode of “Food Paradise” which focuses is on the gastronomical delights that can be had at drive-in eateries. There’s nothing dietetic going on here as folks pull up to sample some hot barbecue in Ohio and overstuffed pastrami sandwiches at a Los Angeles diner that celebrates classic car culture. Get your motor running.
Switching gears to Food Network, there are some iconic dishes from different decades being made in “The Kitchen” on Saturday, Oct. 22, starting in the ‘60s with a tiki-style pu pu platter courtesy of Alex Guarnaschelli and Katie Lee Biegel. There are also Sunny Anderson’s ‘70-style beef stroganoff, Geoffrey Zakarian’s 1980s crab and avocado salad and Jeff Mauro’s nod to the ‘90s with a chocolate lava cake – all washed down with a timeless cocktail, the martini.
Something is also going on in Ina Garten’s kitchen in the Sunday, Oct. 16, edition of “Be My Guest With Ina Garten,” as she welcomes in actor Nathan Lane to sample her version of his favorite dessert, a rum raisin rice pudding. She also shows him how to make mussels with saffron cream before they head out to pick herbs in her garden and into town for yet more sweet treats in East Hampton, N.Y..
Speaking of sweet, Molly Yeh’s got some tasty items in the oven in Sunday’s “Girl Meets Farm,” as she’s celebrating her tutu-loving daughter Berenie’s birthday by baking a tie-dye tutu birthday cake and loading up a table full of snacks including swirly yogurt queso with cilantro cream, little bean burritos and tiny taco salads. Some kids have all the luck.