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Two chefs with Hawaii ties will be featured on Food Network cooking contests today:
>> Reno Henriques, chef and owner of Fresh Catch, competes in “Guy’s Grocery Games” at 8 p.m.
The show brings together chefs that host Guy Fieri has visited in episodes of his other Food Network show, “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” They face off in cooking challenges met by racing through Flavortown Market, a grocery store/cooking stadium built in a warehouse in Santa Rosa, Calif.
Challenges such as? According to the pre-show notes: making a dish designed by another competitor out of refrigerator magnets. The prize: a $20,000 shopping spree and advancement to the tournament finale.
Henriques, a Saint Louis School graduate, operates Fresh Catch locations in Kaimuki and Kaneohe, and food trucks in Campbell Industrial Park and Sand Island.
>> Kaimana Chee, a Kahuku High School graduate now based in Maryland, goes for a win in “Cutthroat Kitchen” at 10 p.m.
This make-it-fast cooking challenge adds a cutthroat aspect of allowing the contestants to sabotage each other.
Chee left Hawaii in 2004, working as a flight attendant in the Baltimore area. But a family background in cooking drew him back to Oahu in 2007 to operate a lunch wagon called Sava’s. After a year, though, he returned to the East Coast where he runs Kaimana’s Katering and teaches at CulinAerie, a cooking school in Washington, D.C.