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Al Dente

I've been in the food industry for years. Grilling and tailgating are my specialties. I'm also addicted to watching food shows on TV.

The founder of GlobalGormet.com, which is one of the first cooking sites on the Internet, and more recently NewGreenBasics.com, Kate Heyhoe has written several cookbooks. But it's her latest book, Cooking Green: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen -- the New Green Basics Way, that tackles HOW you cook. Which, she says, is just as important as WHAT you cook.

On Shameless Chefs, Shameless Dave and Shameless John show up at a house where only the person who invited them knows they're coming. They surprise the other guests and then get to work in the kitchen -- sometimes pulling the guests in with them. Don't miss their videos... and recipes!

The Guy Grub Guy has a kitchen that looks more like a hardware store. He cooks in a shop apron and wears a hard hat. And he uses the tools you have in your garage in his kitchen when preparing recipes. That's what most of his videos are about too: how to use things like pliers, saws and hammers as cooking utensils. Don't miss this!

Check out all 4,000 food inventions that were submitted for the Dining in 2015 contest and let me know what you think! Judges were looking for the most interesting designs in cutlery, tableware, cookware, and cooking tools.

Fix My Recipe is where regular, everyday home cooks can submit to the website recipes they may have once had right, or recipes that might have been handed down from a relative, but when they cook them now they come out all wrong. You know you have a few of those. Chef Billy Parisi then turns your recipe into a cooking video!

Cook Yourself Thin is a British favorite that Lifetime Television is bringing to our shores this spring. The first season is 20 episodes and will show viewers how to eat foods they like, that taste good, and that will help them lose weight.

Chances are you're not going to find a cooking video that will have you laughing like Average Betty's will. Average Betty does for cooking what Saturday Night Live does for the nightly news. The meat of the recipe is there, but the video is really more of a comedy sketch. The result has made Average Betty an Internet celebrity of sorts.

I will be interested to see how this works for Bravo. Top Chef has grown into the top-rated cooking show on cable, but I think it's harder for viewers to connect with celebrity chefs than it is for us to connect with average foodies, like you and me.

The iPhone can now help you make dinner. Or lunch. Or a snack! Kraft has released iFood Assistant. It cost 99 cents and has quickly become one of the top 100 apps for the iPhone!