NEW YORK, Oct. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery,
Inc. today launches Food Network Kitchen, the recently announced
direct-to-consumer platform, that is broadly available now across
Amazon Alexa and Echo Show, Fire
Tablets, Fire TV streaming media devices and Fire TV Edition smart
TVs, as well as iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android mobile devices,
and across additional platforms and devices in 2020.
Food Network Kitchen is designed to improve the lives of
customers by solving pain points associated with cooking, including
meal prep and grocery shopping, boosting their culinary skills and
making cooking a more joyous, delightful and convenient experience.
Food Network Kitchen is innovating the way people interact with
their kitchens, including "hands free" through a landmark
collaboration with Amazon, while offering the most complete digital
platform in food with more groundbreaking capabilities and content
than any other platform.
Food Network Kitchen will feature 25 live and interactive
classes each week, and grocery ordering and delivery straight from
the app. For the first time, customers will be able to stream live
cooking classes with two-way interaction, allowing users and chefs
to communicate in real-time. Unlike any other class experience in
the world, customers will learn directly from the world's best
cooking instructors.
The first-of-its-kind product will offer consumers the most
complete food and cooking digital experience, with more
capabilities, content and interactive features from the most
complete roster of iconic cooking talent anywhere in the world.
Highlights include:
- Daily live and interactive cooking classes
- Hundreds of on-demand cooking classes with a wide variety
including 500 beginner classes, 395 international cuisine classes
and 75 family friendly classes
- Home delivery for ingredients used in all classes, recipes,
instructional videos and shows
- Hundreds of step-by-step instructional videos
- Advanced search functionality
- A curated selection of Food Network shows, with corresponding
recipes, ingredients and home delivery of ingredients.
- Access to top Food Network talent and culinary experts
including Bobby Flay, Rachael Ray, Giada De
Laurentiis, Guy Fieri,
Martha Stewart, Alton Brown, Ina
Garten, Andrew Zimmern, Ree
Drummond, Daniel Boulud, Valerie
Bertinelli, Sunny Anderson,
Jonathan Waxman, Molly Yeh, Nancy
Silverton, JJ Johnson and many more.
- Thousands of trusted recipes and videos, with corresponding
ingredients and home delivery of ingredients.
When customers purchase an annual subscription to Food Network
Kitchen, Discovery will provide up to 100 meals to kids as part of
its Turn Up: Fight Hunger initiative, a new campaign
with No Kid Hungry that will provide one billion meals for kids
living with hunger in the U.S. over the next five years. For more
information, go to TurnUp.org/meals.
At launch, Food Network Kitchen is offering a 90-day free trial
period, along with a limited time discounted price of $47.99/year ($4.00/month). This will include access to
hundreds of on-demand classes, 25 live and interactive classes per
week, step-by-step instructional videos, thousands of recipes and
hundreds of chefs including Food Network stars, culinary
influencers, restaurateurs and cookbook authors.
Live cooking class schedules will be posted at least a week in
advance, with the lineup for the first month of live cooking
classes featuring some of Food Network's most recognizable chefs
and on-air personalities, including: Valerie Bertinelli, Anne
Burrell, Giada De Laurentiis,
Ree Drummond, Bobby Flay,
Amanda Freitag, Katie Lee, Michael
Symon, Buddy Valastro,
Molly Yeh, Zac Young, Geoffrey
Zakarian and more.
On November 9th,
Rachael Ray's 30 Minute Meals
returns to Food Network with all new episodes. Timed
to the season premiere, Food Network Kitchen subscribers will be
able to access all ten episodes of the new season, as well as take
live classes with Rachael on the app every day the week of
November 11th.
During the holidays, fans will be able to use the Food Network
Kitchen app to access recipe instructions of fantastical creations
straight from primetime seasonal series such as Christmas
Cookie Challenge, Holiday Baking Championship, Holiday Gingerbread
Tournament, Holiday Wars, Santa's Baking Blizzard, Ultimate
Hanukkah Challenge and Ultimate Thanksgiving
Challenge to recreate holiday magic at home.
In 2020, Food Network Kitchen will add features including 24/7
culinary support, culinary equipment delivery and exclusive
content. Also in 2020, Food Network Kitchen will roll out across
additional platforms and devices.
To access Food Network Kitchen, search for the app in your
device's App
Store.
About Discovery:
Discovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is a global leader
in real life entertainment, serving a passionate audience of
superfans around the world with content that inspires, informs and
entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original
programming each year and has category leadership across deeply
loved content genres around the world. Available in 220 countries
and territories and nearly 50 languages, Discovery is a platform
innovator, reaching viewers on all screens, including TV Everywhere
products such as the GO portfolio of apps; direct-to-consumer
streaming services such as Eurosport Player and MotorTrend
OnDemand; digital-first and social content from Group Nine Media; a
landmark natural history and factual content partnership with the
BBC; and a strategic alliance with PGA TOUR to create the
international home of golf. Discovery's portfolio of premium brands
includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation
Discovery, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, and Science
Channel, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S.,
Discovery Kids in Latin America,
and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium
sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe. For more information, please visit
corporate.discovery.com and follow @DiscoveryIncTV across social
platforms.
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