I don’t cook or bake, but my best friend does both. So, I am always on the lookout for cookbooks for her and my nieces. You never know what interesting recipes are going to be in between the pages.
This Friday on the Roku Channel, we are going to see chefs compete in a cooking competition where they have to cook up something from a cookbook in Clash of the Cookbooks.
Join comedian Phoebe Robinson and cookbook author and culinary historian Max Miller as they put cookbook-obsessed chefs to the test with legendary cookbook-inspired challenges. Cookbooks are the cornerstone of how the average person has learned to cook for hundreds of years, testing the technical and creative skills of home cooks. In this competition, chefs from across the country take recipes from the page to the plate by cooking from history’s greatest and the world’s toughest cookbooks.
Who knows, maybe you will find something you want to cook up. Or, in my case, something I will tell my friend to make for me. Which she never does.
Over the years, we have seen many different cooking competitions, from sushi to cakes to burgers to pizza. On October 18th, Josh Peck is giving us something different with Roku’s Best Bite Wins.
Over the course of six fast-paced episodes, celebrity host Josh Peck and culinary expert Monti Carlo invite six expert chefs to compete for a $25,000 cash prize and bragging rights as Los Angeles’ king or queen of cocktail appetizers. Each episode brings a new client, inspiring theme, and fresh culinary challenge to the Best Bite Mansion—as well as some of the most dynamic dishes ever put out on a small plate.
Since I adore hors d’oeuvres, I will be eating this series up. Will you take a bite?
We know Charlie Puth as a lyricist and a singer with perfect pitch, but the newlywed wants to be known for more than that.
So, he reached out to Roku, and they gave him a show so that he can expand his career beyond just music.
The Charlie Puth Show will feature artists, comedians, and icons from every area of the pop matrix, the famous faces that populate the show help Charlie to navigate his heightened reality where his career neurosis and musical perfectionism often gets in the way of his peace and sanity, ultimately parodying the very zeitgeist that Charlie’s trying to conquer.
The 6-episode mockumnetary debuts October 4th on Roku. Hopefully, when it is over, kids will no longer say to him, “Shawn Mendes, the better version of you.” I felt that pain, and I know and accept that are a lot of people who are a better version of me.
There have been cooking shows dedicated to just burgers and pizza. And on June 16th, we are getting one that is only about sushi!
Legendary Sushi Chef and Restauranter, Masaharu Morimoto, will be looking for the next Sushi Master on The Roku Channel. He, along with Chef Dakota Weiss and Chef Kenji López-Alt, will be judging the eight contestants as they are tested to see if they have what it takes to perfect the art of sushi making. The who they deem the master at the end of the competition will walk away with $25,000.
If you love sushi as much as I do, you will be eating up Morimoto’s Sushi Master’s six episodes as though it is the yummiest spicy tuna roll you have eaten.
Weird Al Yankovic has been teasing a biopic for over a decade, and it is finally streaming on the Roku Channel for free.
Since Weird Al is known for parodying songs, it would make sense that he would parody his own life story. How does he do that in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story? I want to tell you, but it is better you experience it as it happens.
I can tell you it starts out with young Al, whose father disapproves of who he is. So, when he is old enough, he leaves home and lives with a bunch of guys who encourage him and his music.
He rewrites My Sharona to My Bologna and sends a copy of it to Dr. Demento (Rainn Wilson), a popular radio DJ. Dr. Demento and his fans love it so much that it becomes an instant hit. Therefore, Weird Al tries to get a record contract from Tony (some weird unknown actor) and Ben Scotti (Will Forte). However, they turn him down.
Eventually, he is accepted as a musician, and he is an instant hit. But then his world comes crashing down when he accidentally does drugs and dates Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood) on purpose.
Much like his real life.
Well, the only thing that is like his real life is his songs are in it, and all of his friends who have cameos in the movie, like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Conan O’Brien, Emo Phillips, Josh Groban, and Jack Black. The latter should star in a film about the person whom he plays in this movie.
I know this review is pretty vague, but the movie starring Daniel Radcliffe needs to be enjoyed with as little spoilers as possible. It is just silly fun! And we always need to make more time for stupid fun. Plus, the price is right!
