Savannah is once again making another claim to culinary fame.
Resident Rebekah Lingenfelser will be among this year's contestants on the new season of Food Network Star, which premieres on June 10 Culinary superstars Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis are back to mentor and judge 10 culinary hopefuls.
"You can expect hopefuls competing to join the Food Network family which has been a dream of mine for some time," Lingenfelser said. " I got to meet some incredible people on the show. . . We're going to be faced with some really intense cooking challenges and camera challenges. So it will be a combination of those on the first episode. "
A native of Georgia, Lingenfelser is a marketing and public relations director. She also writes a food column for the "Statesboro Herald." She also hosts her own blog "Some Kinda Good."
"I grew up in a family who loves to cook and entertain," she said. "My mother is a great cook. My grandmother is a great cook. So I was always around good food. And when I graduated college and got out on my own I really started cooking. I'm a firm believer that you have to listen to your life. And in all of my spare time, I would be reading cookbooks and reading food magazines, and watching food TV. .. I just started blogging."
Over nine episodes, contestants will be tasked with challenges that test both their cooking and on-camera skills, as they try to prove to Flay and De Laurentiis they have what it takes to be a star. Before the main competition gets started, Valerie Bertinelli and Tyler Florence return to co-host a new season of Food, which premiered on May 27, as eight former finalists battle it out to earn a spot on the new season. FoodNetwork.com's Star Salvation, hosted by Alex Guarnaschelli, also returns to give finalists eliminated during the season a chance to rejoin the on-air competition.
Other special guests joining the action this season include Sunny Anderson, Richard Blais, Anne Burrell, Fran Drescher, Tyler Florence, Tregaye Fraser, Duff Goldman, Alex Guarnaschelli, Robert Irvine, Loni Love, Damaris Phillips, Jason Smith, Casey Webb and Molly Yeh.
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