(For more on “Kitchen Casino” - including a trailer - click here. The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One (SOBEWFF) is a national, star-studded, four-day destination event showcasing the. Alison and her family will be celebrating with the extended Milwe clan in Florida. It’s the 50th wedding anniversary of her parents, Jeff and Judy. Grace’s episode airs Monday, April 21 (9 p.m.). She not only can’t tell “06880” - she has not told her children. She signed tons of non-disclosure agreements. So how did she do? Did she win the $30,000 jackpot?Ĭhef Grace can’t say. For them, seeing me on TV is way cooler than watching me leave every morning.” “They’ve been totally supportive of my career. “They love watching the promos on TV,” Grace says. Her Staples students are just finding out their teacher will be a TV star. “It was a very good fit for my personality.” She’ll work with a bride or fundraising organization for over a year when the big day arrives, it all comes together. She likens the feeling to the middle of a huge catering event. The loooong day of shooting - on Martin Luther King weekend - was “the most exhausting, emotional, validating, energizing, exciting day of my culinary career,” Chef Grace says. Grace prepped for the shooting by “Googling random recipes, to get proportions right in my head.” She also watched a lot of “Chopped” and “Cutthroat Kitchen.” They did mention, though, that contestants “might sabotage” each other. (She has no idea how.) She knew nothing about the show - it’s new, so no one did - and producers said little. The Food Network found Grace, and asked her to appear. The “Kitchen Casino” set includes a revolving roulette wheel, with 4 cooking stations.

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