Local celebrity chef and restaurant owner Darnell SuperChef Ferguson will return to the TV show Guys Grocery Games tomorrow.
The TV show, which stars celebrity restaurateur Guy Fieri, pits chefs against each other as they shop for and prepare a meal inside a grocery store within a limited budget and limited time. To make things more difficult, the contestants also have to follow some unexpected rules for example, they can only use ingredients that start with the same letter, they have to choose ingredients blindfolded, or they can only shop for ingredients that come from the same aisle.
Fergusons episode, Flavortown 2.0, will air tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct. 20, on the Food Network at 9 p.m. EST. It will also be available to stream on Discovery Plus. In the episode, Ferguson will face off against three other chefs Crista Luedtke, Aaron May, and Justin Warner for the first episode in Fieris bigger, new store.
Ferguson, who owns the seafood restaurant Tha Drippin Crab in Russell, is no stranger to TV cooking shows. This will be his ninth appearance on Guys Grocery Games, according to IMDB, and his second this season; in fact, he took home $14,000 after winning one episode of the show in 2016. Besides Guys Grocery Games, he has also appeared on Chopped, The Rachael Ray Show, and Beat Bobby Flay, amongst others.
Ferguson is originally from Columbus and owns restaurants in Alabama and Ohio, but he made his home in Louisville after graduating from Sullivans Culinary Arts program in 2008, the same year he cooked for Team USA at the Beijing Olympics.
Watch a clip from one of Fergusons most famous previous appearances on the Food Network:
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This article appears in October 15, 2021.