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Yes, his overbearing manner and spiked blond hair can rub people the wrong way, but at his core, Guy Fieri seems like a pretty decent guy. Recently, the host of Food Network's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" used his clout to try to convince the California legislature to adopt a resolution urging the families to meet and cook weekly meals together every Sunday, reports the Associated Press.

Fieri, who helped pass a 2008 initiative to make the second Saturday in May "Cook With Your Kids Day" says he thinks cooking at home builds healthy habits.

"Let them stand there and work the saute pan, let them do the plate up, let them deliver it to the family," Fieri told the lawmakers. "Start them off slow. Educate them as you go."

"Diners Drive-Ins and Dives." "Guy's Big Bite." "Minute to Win It." There's no hiding from Guy Fieri these days. The California-based restaurateur burst onto the scene in 2006 after winning the second season of "The Next Food Network Star," and it seems like America can't get enough of his spiky blond hair, chunky jewelry and over-the-top enthusiasm. We defended his frat-boy charm last year, but the debate still rages: Is he worth the hype? Dan Hopper of Best Week Ever examines the issue, asking himself whether Fieri is harmless -- or truly terrible.

Read the whole arguement over at Best Week Ever.

When Bobby Moynihan does Guy Fieri on "Saturday Night Live," it's always over the top, and in this week's sketch he pulled off what everyone who's ever heard of the turducken has joked about for years -- he added six more animals.

He builds a turkduckenrabpigcowcowhorsishgamehen, and then deep-frys it.

Eater rounded up an SNL gallery of the best food skits, from Tina Fey's "Brownie Husband" to Kristen Wiig as Paula Deen eating whole sticks of butter. Check out the clips in between rolling out your Thanksgiving pie crusts; they'll have you rolling on the kitchen floor.

• Some chefs are celebrities; some, like Guy Fieri, are superstars.
• Saratoga Springs is known for horses -- but you still gotta eat.
• Say it ten times fast: txakolina. (Now try saying it after a few glasses.)
• What's in season? Beer, with its very own gardens.
• Brooklyn's Traif is good and reasonable. (Hope your rabbi doesn't catch you there.)

This Sunday marks the return of Food Network's talent search, The Next Food Network Star.

Since its inception five years ago, the show has found on-air food talent from the likes of Aaron McCargo, Jr. and Adam Gertler to last year's winner, stay-at-home mom Melissa d'Arabian. And let's not forget Season 2's winner: Guy Fieri, who's exploded into a brand of his own since launching Guy's Big Bite and Diner's, Drive-Ins and Dives.

For Season 6, The Next Food Network Star is going Hollywood. "By moving it to L.A. and giving it that backdrop, it gave us many more locations to work with," Bob Tuschman, General Manager and of the Food Network tells Slashfood. "We got to open up a whole new world of challenges." Prior seasons have featured New York as the main backdrop but now contestants will be seen at a Grammy party for pop musician Colbie Caillat, working with Paula Deen in conceptualizing their own food trucks and cooking at Eva Longoria-Parker and Todd English's restaurant Beso.

While the show relies on a revolving cast of Food Network stars making appearances and helping out with challenges now and again, the mainstays are the judging panel. Joining Tuschman once again are Susie Fogelson and Bobby Flay. Tuschman evaluates the overall promise of transitioning into a television personality, Fogelson looks at the marketing and branding potential of each contestant and their "culinary point of views" and Flay makes sure their cooking skills are up to snuff.