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Food Network Star X: Star Salvation Round 5

With the holiday this week, we’re running our Star Salvation recap early. Usually I leave it until Friday so everyone has had time to catch up, but one of the perks of recapping online content–no being locked into a schedule. It’s all about when it’s convenient for you.

This past Sunday, the show eliminated Christopher, our token “high end chef.” There’s one contestant every season who has…

Food Network Star X: Cutthroat Calamities

This week, Food Network Starrolls out the first challenge based on a current popular TV shows the network airs. These challenges work on multiple levels. There’s the viewer at home level, who is either introduced to a new piece of Food Network’s line up, or the one who doesn’t normally watch FNS, but will tune in tonight because it’s the challenge based on their favorite program. As for the…

Food Network Star X: Meet the Contestants

It’s been ten years since Food Network decided to start televising the search for new talent fodder and letting us viewers get a glimpse of how your Food Network Sausage gets made. The title has shortened. (“The Next” has been dropped.) The judges may have quietly morphed from actual producers with power to people with better star quality. But the show has impressively stayed about the same…