In twelve episodes, the Cooking Under Fire show and web site will give viewers an insider’s look at the mental and physical challenges and intense pressures faced in today’s highly competitive restaurant industry, and the combination of talent and skills that it takes to succeed as a chef—from creativity and culinary acumen to management abilities and purchasing power.
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Served up by PBS as “reality TV that feeds your brain,” the documentary-style series will track twelve contestants—ranging in age from 23 to 42, including four women and eight men—as they embark on a coast-to-coast cooking competition in four of the nation’s culinary capitals—Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami, and New York. In twelve episodes, the show will give viewers an insider’s look at the mental and physical challenges and intense pressures faced in today’s highly competitive restaurant industry, and the combination of talent and skills that it takes to succeed as a chef—from creativity and culinary acumen to management abilities and purchasing power.

Beginning Tuesday, April 26th visitors to pbs.org/cookingunderfire can:

• Meet the contestants and follow their progress via journals written throughout the competition (updated weekly);
• Watch the first two episodes and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage;
• Vote for your favorite chef-in-training in an interactive poll;
• Stay on top of the action with the weekly re-cap, complete with a slide show of key moments—and dishes;
• Test your own cooking skills with selected recipes from the series’ celebrity judges and guest chefs;
• Access online food resources via our collection of favorite links; and
• Learn more about the series and celebrity chefs.

Media contacts:

Jennifer Welsh   
617.300.5470       
jennifer_welsh(-at-)wgbh.org 

Tracy Patterson
WGBH Boston
617.300.5339
tracy_patterson(-at-)wgbh.org 

Dustin Smith
dustin_smith(-at-)wgbh.org
WGBH Boston
617.300.5337

Photography contact:
Bailey Vatalaro
WGBH Boston
617.300.5328
bailey_vatalaro(-at-)wgbh.org

Pressrooms:
http://pbs.org/pressroom
http://pressroom.wgbh.org

COOKING UNDER FIRE is a co-production of WGBH Lifestyle Productions, Lance Reynolds, and John Rieber. Corporate funding is provided by Chrysler, Inspiration Comes Standard; Contessa Premium Foods, Inc.; and All-Clad. Additional funding provided by public television viewers.

WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, the source of fully one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup, along with some of public television's best-known lifestyle shows and children's programs and many public radio favorites. WGBH is the number one producer of Web sites on pbs.org, the most-visited dot-org on the Internet. WGBH is a pioneer in educational multimedia and in technologies and services that make media accessible to the 36 million Americans who rely on captioning or video descriptions. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys, Peabodys, duPont- Columbia Awards…even two Oscars. In 2002, WGBH was honored with a special institutional Peabody Award for 50 years of excellence. For more information visit http://www.wgbh.org.

Source: WGBH Educational Foundation
 

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