Door Knock Dinners Explained

Door Knock Dinners is a program that aired on Food Network in the late 1990s. The program featured Gordon Elliott taking a guest chef (or himself) into the home of a busy person/household and cooking the family a dinner using only the items they had in their home.

The Door Knock Dinners guest chef list includes the following:

• Paula Deen – her appearance on the show led to her debuting her own show, Paula's Home Cooking, in November 2002.
• Tyler Florence
• Rokusaburo Michiba and Masaharu Morimoto – appeared on the show and prepared dinner for a family in Rye, New York ahead of Morimoto's first Iron Chef battle against Bobby Flay in New York City, which Elliott was the English-speaking MC for. The show adapted many Iron Chef mechanics in honor of them, including graphics and announcers as if the challenge were a Kitchen Stadium battle, and footage from the show was used in the Iron Chef New York Special, including the original Japanese version that aired on Fuji TV.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Iron Chef episode of Doorknock Dinners (Video). YouTube. 30 April 2007 . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/QW8cFpARiNg . 2021-12-13 . live. 10 September 2013.