Gilbert Kid Competes On Food Network Show

Last summer, Cody Vasquez ate lunch with first lady Michelle Obama at the White House. The gastronomic 12-year-old had created a healthy recipe for shrimp tacos with a watermelon jicama salad, which won him the trip.
Now, the Gilbert boy will make his national TV debut, appearing on a baking competition. He’s one of eight contestants ages 10 to 13 competing on “Kids Baking Championship,” a four-part series that debuts Monday, Feb. 2, on the Food Network.

Cody’s family owns three Mexican restaurant concepts around the state: Someburros, Isabel’s Amor and Poncho’s. He likes to cook and bake but prefers cooking because of the freedom it allows. “Baking is more like a science,” he said. “You have to follow the recipe and use precise ingredients so it rises and doesn’t become flat.” During the show’s challenges, he relied on advice from his grandmother to help him focus. She told him not to change measurements and to “stay calm — once you start baking, it calms yourself.”

Celebrity baker Duff Goldman and Golden Globe award-winning actress Valerie Bertinelli are the hosts and judges. Bertinelli is the best-selling author of “Losing It, Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life Without Opening the Fridge” and “One Dish at a Time.” Goldman owns Charm City Cakes in Baltimore and starred on Food Network’s “Ace of Cakes.” His new series is called “Duff Till Dawn.” Goldman was expected to be in Glendale during Super Bowl week to kick off the DIRECTV Super Fan experience with a custom cake.

The “Kids Baking Championship” winner will receive a complete set of Food Network bakeware products, a profile in Food Network Magazine, an original cake featured at Charm City Cakes and $10,000.

The other contestants are Caroline Binkley, 13, of Delaware, Ohio; Annika Coffman, 12, of Boise, Idaho; Jackson Fujimori, 11, of Torrance, Calif.; Hollis Jackson, 13, of Jacksonville, Fla.; Payton Pelaez, 10, of San Francisco; Anthony Smith, 11, of Rochester, N.Y.; and Natalie Venable, 11, of Thousand Oaks, Calif.
If you missed it, go to foodnetwork.com to watch the video

(Source: azcentral.com)

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