'Culinary Gauntlet': Old Town Home Cook To Compete On New Food Network Series

ALEXANDRIA, VA – Old Town home cook Amy Decker will be competing on the new Food Network series, “100 Cooks,” Decker announced Thursday.

“I am beyond thrilled to announce that I’m a contestant on Food Network's brand new series '100 Cooks,'” Decker wrote in an Instagram post. “It has been an incredible journey competing alongside 99 other talented home cooks in the ultimate stadium kitchen.”

The series will begin airing Sunday, June 7, she said.

According to the network, the new show will be hosted by actor and television host Terry Crews and judged by cook and content creator Nick DiGiovanni and chef Alex Guarnaschelli. It calls the new show “the biggest, boldest home cook competition in the network’s history,” in which the “100 of the country’s best home cooks [will] run through an epic 7-week culinary gauntlet where 99 cooks will be eliminated and only one is named America’s best home cook and wins as much as $250,000.”

Food Network says the contestants have been drawn from all walks of life, from “firefighters and college students to corporate lawyers and stay-at-home moms and dads.” There will also be at least one former CIA officer, one of Decker’s prior incarnations, she says, before launching her baking and cooking business, Decker Delights.

Decker is only the most recent Alexandrian to be featured on the Food Network: earlier in May, local chef Leigh Orleans won an episode of the show “Chopped.”

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