Food Network's Chefography Series: Ten Cool Facts!

For the past few weeks, The Food Network has been running a stream of its Chefography shows, and I must admit, I've been loving them. Here are ten cool facts about the Food Network chefs and stars that I learned from tuning in. There's actually ten featured FN stars and more then ten facts!...

1. Ina Garten, The Barefoot Contessa. Ina is a smarty! She worked in the White House before making it big as The Barefoot Contessa. She also had a habit of sending her future-husband boxed brownies in the mail throughout their courtship days. And by the way, Ina always adds a pinch of freeze-dried coffee to her chocolate brownie recipes. She says the coffee enhances the complexity of the chocolate flavor. And I agree-great tip!

2. Bobby Flay. Bobby is a self-admitted wild child when it came to traditional schooling. He dropped out of school at age 17. However Bobby did eventually get his GRE and culinary schooling-at which he excelled greatly. Bobby likes to say that he went to UCLA. Not the UCLA in California, but the University of the Corner of Lexington Avenue. (Lexington is a main city street i....

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