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After finishing as a runner-up in Season 4 of The Next Food Network Star, self-anointed food-dork Adam Gertler has managed to parlay himself a steady television career outside the traditional cooking demonstration shows.
Gertler began with Will Work For Food, a series where he explored different, often overlooked aspects of careers in the food world. Then, he shifted gears and made a one-off special that aired last year called Extreme Sweets, where he searched out the more bizarre aspects of the sugar world.
Based on the strength of that special, Gertler is returning Monday with a six episode mini-season of a new series called Kid in a Candy Store, where he travels the country, uncovering the sweeter side of life (minus the extreme). Not only does the show celebrate innovative desserts like the sweet corn with cracked pepper ice cream from New Orleans' Creole Creamery, Gertler takes time to visit the assembly lines to check out Sno Balls in production and the creation process at the Dippin' Dots factory to learn about the ins and outs of the sweets we eat.
The show The Next Food Network Star has a formula. It starts out with a set number of contestants and over the course of weeks, all the contestants are eliminated, save one. That last person standing wins a deal to make a 13-episode series for the Food Network. However, this season, the execs at the Food Network seem to be messing with the formula a bit. Not only did they advance three contestants to the final round, now they've announced that finalist Adam Gertler (famous in Philly circles for his short-lived restaurant The Smoked Joint) is also going to be getting his own show. 
