Academy Award winning actress Octavia Spencer returns to her southern roots this summer for her new home cooking competition ‘Family Recipe Showdown‘. Filmed in New Orleans, Ms. Spencer serves as the host of the series which also features southern cook extraordinaire Edgar Dook Chase as resident expert. Each episode welcomes family duos to the kitchen to prepare their best family recipe to win a $10,000 prize. Octavia and Dook will sample the dishes before the final round of rotating guest judges and celebrity friends.
Each episode features two rounds of culinary throwdowns with themes from a Southern brunch with all the fixings to a top-notch biscuit bakeoff, and three teams of home cooks must impress Octavia and Dook to advance to the final round. The two duos that move on to the second showdown are tasked with putting their own delicious spin on a family favorite recipe of the episode’s guest judge. Each week, only one family takes home the win and $10,000 prize. In the series premiere, Octavia and Dook open the kitchen to three teams of Southern families for a down-home showdown.
“Southern food means family to me, and I am thrilled to introduce these outstanding home cooks to viewers,” said Spencer. “The competing families bring their own traditions to every dish – from buttery biscuits to cast-iron skillet specialties, the food took me and my friends back to our childhoods with every bite…and getting to taste it all with Dook Chase made the experience even sweeter. This show is about family, friends and food – there’s nothing better than that.”
The panel of guest judges and Octavia’s celebrity friends include Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Chastain, Danielle Brooks, Eric Stonestreet, Tina Knowles, Kandi Burruss, Tim Gunn, and Al Roker with his daughter Leila. The eight episode series begins Thursday, July 17th at 9pm ET/PT on Food Network and streams the next day on HBO Max.
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