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Food Network Sets 24-Hours-Straight Cooking Competition ‘Last Chef Standing’ Hosted by Michael Symon and Esther Choi (EXCLUSIVE)
Food Network is breaking new ground with a series that features 24 chefs taking on 24 food challenges in, you guessed it, 24 consecutive hours.
The winner — “the chef who cooked the best, for the longest and outlasted the competition” — will be determined by judges Eric Adjepong, Maneet Chauhan, Scott Conant, Stephanie Izard, Jet Tila, Bryan and Michael Voltaggio, and Brooke Williamson. The 24 competing chefs are a mix of “culinary icons, rising stars, and competition rookies,” including: Carlos Anthony, Gabriella Baldwin, Emilie Rose Bishop, Josephine Clemens, Chris Dodson, Kess Eshun, Elizabeth Falkner, Declan Horgan, Christopher Ingram, Airis Johnson, Matt Jordan, Camille La Caer, Danielle Lee, Mika Leon, Chris Oh, Viet Pham, Marc Quinones, Nadine Charlie Ray, Chad Rosenthal, Vijay Sadhu, Aarthi Sampath, Martel Stone, Michael Toscano,and Marcel Vigneron. The series is Food Network’s latest splashy project made to draw eyeballs to its linear channel amid an ongoing cable ratings slump and ad sales decline.
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