Vegetarian StarTLC “Kick Off Cook Off” Features Plant Based Team Against Players (Video)

TLC “Kick Off Cook Off” Features Plant Based Team Against Players (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on September 29th, 2010 in Athletes-Games-Sports, Chefs, Film & TV, Food & Drink, Reality TV, Videos.

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NASHVILLE, TN - DECEMBER 02: Football fans eat food from the tailgate of their truck prior to the start of the NFL game between the Houston Texans and the Tennessee Titans on December 02, 2007 at LP Field in Nashville, Tennessee. Born and bred into American sporting culture the act of tailgating is a tradition practiced unlike anywhere else in the world. Tailgating by definition is the act of partying or picnicking around a vehicle in a car park prior to the start of a sporting event. At any major sporting event in the United States you will find die hard fans, all settling into car parks surrounding the stadium, hours before the event even begins. Tailgaters, young and old drink, play games, barbeque and party, rain, hail or snow and often in unusual places, just about anywhere it?s possible to park a car and setup a barbeque. What started as a small pre-game picnic held out of the back of a pickup truck has now evolved into a multibillion-dollar business, with participant numbers estimated at over 50 million over the course of a season. The tailgating industry has taken off, with thousands of websites devoted to tailgating, a magazine, a convention and even its own trade association. Specialized tailgating equipment such as trailers fully equipped with everything from full bar facilities, specially designed cooking areas, flat screen TV?s, toilets, satellite dishes and generators have also been introduced. Tailgating has become as much of a sport as the football games it was born around, so much so many fans turn up just to tailgate and never even see the inside of the stadium. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

TLC is debuting a new, six part mini-series where a 2 person team of regular people compete against 2 professional football players in a showdown of who has the best cooking skills for a tailgate party!

Kick Off Cook Off premieres October 7th and the following week on October 14th, a plant based cooking team made of Julieanna Hever and veg chef Chef AJ, the wellness experts of “The Chef and the Dietitian,” will show football fans how to keep it veggie at the next game.

Hosted by sportscaster Erin Andrews and featuring Top Chef finalist Brian Malarke, Kick Off Cook Off is scheduled to feature Indianapolis Colts’ Dwight Freeney & Adam Vinatieri, Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Ronde Barber & his brother Tiki Barber, a retired New York Giant, San Diego Chargers’ Stephen Cooper & Shaun Phillips, San Francisco 49ers’ Jerry Rice and New York Jets’ Keyshawn Johnson and Arizona Cardinals’ Kurt Warner.

The Chef and the Dietitian has a blog headquartered at toyourhealthnutrition.blogspot.com, which frequently discusses food, health and wellness issues, as well as touch on animal subjects. Recipes like oil-free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies and Thai Corn Chowder And Cabbage Salad are also posted.

Hever took to the blog to briefly discuss her experience filming for Kick Off Cook Off:

“Now, of course, I cannot reveal the results (that would be too easy…and, anyway, it is much more fun to actually watch the show)…BUT, the judge, who had never had a plant-based team before on this show and had never heard of the majority of our ingredients (apparently, miso, cacao, and date syrup are not yet popularized in the world of traditional chefery), LOVED our food! His eyes lit up and he had nothing but wonderful comments to make…surprised as he was!”

Below are videos of Hever and Chef AJ cooking off against themselves in a contest of who makes the best green smoothie.