The cooking competition "Chopped" has been a mainstay on the Food Network since 2009. Every episode has four chefs competing in three rounds of cooking. Each challenge reveals a new set of disparate ...

While people like Julia Child, Philip Harben, and Joyce Chen first laid the groundwork for televised cooking shows in the 1950s and '60s, it wouldn't take off as its own full-fledged genre until the ...