Food Network's February 2017 Programming Highlights

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Below are some of the highlights of the Food Network programming scheduled to air on the channel in February.  It doesn't seem like there are any new series, but there are new episodes of many shows and the Kids Baking Championship finale will be this month on February 27th.

The full press release with episode descriptions is below:

Donald Trump's Inauguration Cake Looks A Lot Like Duff Goldman's Cake For Barack Obama

Food Network's Duff Goldman had the pleasure of making President Barack Obama's inauguration cake in 2013 at his inauguration.

Yesterday, Duff saw a picture of Donald Trump cutting his inauguration cake and noticed something.  It was pretty much the exact same cake.

Duff tweeted out a picture (pictured right) of the cakes side-by-side with the caption, "The cake on the left is the one I made for President Obama's inauguration 4 years ago. The one on the right is Trumps. I didn't make it"

As you can see, the cakes have the design, same amount of layers, same size layers, same decorations, and are exactly the same down to the star placement.

Duff didn't make the cake, so who knows how the cake turned out the way it did or who ordered it that way.  There was a different cake at the 2009 inauguration, so it isn't a tradition to have the same exact cake.

Food Network Related News and Links

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Sorry for the delay, but here is some recent news involving Food Network shows and chefs/personalities from the Food Network:

• Food Network has ordered 13 new episodes of Ginormous Food just halfway into its first season.  The show is currently airing on multiple nights, but new episodes are Friday at 8pm. (Link)
• Ayesha Curry's show Ayesha's Homemade was also renewed for a second season. (Link)
• Ree Drummond's dog Charlie recently passed away as detailed on a blog post on her Pioneer Woman website.  Charlie regularly appeared on Pioneer Woman episodes and Ree has a book series named after him.
• We all know Iron Chef is returning and Alex Guarnaschelli recently had an Instagram post about the show tagging Bobby Flay, Michael Symon, Geoffrey Zakarian, Cat Cora, Marc Forgione, Masaharu Morimoto, and Jose Garces, so it looks like it could be the same Iron Chefs competing.
• Great Food Truck Race is casting for its eighth season and it looks like this season will have people competing who have never run a food truck. (Link)
• Ina Garten easily had the best selling cookbook of 2016 with Cooking for Jeffrey despite being released in October.  Ree Drummond had the 6th best seller with her 2015 book The Pioneer Woman Cooks. (Link)
• A Kansas State University study revealed that celebrity chefs have poor food safety habits due to licking fingers, touching hair, lack of hand washing, and not changing cutting boards.  (Link)