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Fresh Food on TV: Weekday Edition
With all the channels on broadcast TV and cable and the inevitable episode repeats, it's hard to sort out what's new or worthwhile. Let us sort it out for you so you don't miss anything worth watching. Times may vary with region; check your local listings for exact hour and channels.
Monday (June 4)
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Tony returns to Malaysia with a visit to Penang, a coastal state/island that offers up delicious seafood and beaches that look too good to be true. Hopefully there aren't any durian encounters this time. 9 p.m. ET, Travel Channel
Invention Hunters: In this new Food Network series, inventors present their own food-related contraptions to a team of pitchmen for the chance at a manufacturing contract. This episode looks at three devices from the Midwest, including a Wine Balloon (?). 9 p.m. ET, Food Network
Tuesday (June 5)
The Chew: ABC's 'View for foodies' will tackle the all-too-relevant topic of Backyard BBQ with visits from Man vs. Food's Adam Richman and Foodography's Jeffery Saad. 1 p.m. ET, ABC
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations: Tony gets the honor of appearing on Fresh Food twice this week because his special on El Bulli is a fascinating look into Ferran Adria's famed restaurant before it closed its doors last summer. 6 p.m. ET, Travel Channel
Chopped: With an appetizer basket includes corned beef and gummy fried eggs, this promises to be a particularly strange episode of Food Network's competition show. 10 p.m. ET, Food Network
Wednesday (June 6)
Pressure Cook: In this mini-marathon, host Ralph Pagano lands in several locales - Finland, Croatia, Canada and Jamaica - with only his cooking skills to finance his return home. 11 a.m. ET, Travel Channel
Food Wars: The Food Wars team travels to Kennebunkport, ME to decide the lobster roll battle between Allison's Restaurant and The Clam Shack once and for all. 2 p.m. ET, Travel Channel
Adam Richman's Best Sandwich in America: Richman debuts his new series with back-to-back episodes searching for great sandwiches in the Northeast and Gulf Coast. 9 p.m. ET, Travel Channel
Thursday (June 7)
Emeril's Table: Emeril teaches his viewers which pan is for what, offering cookware tips and recipes for stir-fried squid in chile sauce and sirloin fajitas. 12 p.m. ET, Hallmark Channel
Sweet Genius: The slightly strange Ron Ben-Israel hosts this slightly strange competition show in which pastry chefs face off with unique ingredients and thematic inspriation. 10 p.m. ET, Food Network
Friday (June 8)
Good Eats: Alton enters the Age of Asparagus with techniques for roasting, steaming and storing the vegetable. If Kenji's week of asparagus recipes left you hungry for more, check this episode out. 11:30 a.m. ET, Food Network
Jamie Oliver's Meals in Minutes: In the British chef's take on 30-minute meals, Jamie prepares an "oozy" mushroom risotto in addition to a spinach salad and quick cheesecake. Sounds like a tasty meal to prepare over the weekend. 1:30 p.m. ET, BBC