Dinner: Impossible is an American television program broadcast by the Food Network. The first episode aired on January 24, 2007. Food Network recently began advertising the show's seventh season, to begin on August 12, 2009.
Each episode, the host is given a challenge that must be completed within a given period of time. Challenges have included preparing a large dinner aboard a luxury train, an "authentic" 18th century American colonial dinner (...
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Dinner: Impossible is an American television program broadcast by the Food Network. The first episode aired on January 24, 2007. Food Network recently began advertising the show's seventh season, to begin on August 12, 2009.
Each episode, the host is given a challenge that must be completed within a given period of time. Challenges have included preparing a large dinner aboard a luxury train, an "authentic" 18th century American colonial dinner (prepared with period cooking methods and tools), and a luxury meal on a small, isolated, New England island.
With its name and other elements suggesting the 1960s television series Mission: Impossible, the program explores whether a multi-course meal for a large group can be prepared by the chef and his team with limited resources, no advance planning and in a fixed period of time. In a scene echoing the opening sequence of Mission: Impossible, each episode opens with the chef receiving his assignment, detailing where, for whom, in how long...
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