The latest season of the Great Food Truck Race premiered on the Food Network Sunday night with the theme of this season being that the race heads to Alaska. Host Tyler Florence took the teams to Alaska where they began the Sunday night premiere breaking the keys to their food trucks out of 200 pound blocks of ice. On top of battling each other, they battled the elements as they competed to see who can prep and sell the most food.
Over the course of the season, viewers will watch the teams travel all across Alaska. The show first takes the competing teams to Palmer where they serve up large vegetables, Homer where they take up deep sea fishing, Seward where they pan for gold and partake in an Alaskan crab challenge and to the village of Talkeetna where they will engage in a scavenger hunt. The season concludes with the remaining teams battling it out in Fairbanks.
According to Food Network, five truck teams were scheduled to go to Homer. Jan Knutson with the Homer Chamber of Commerce spoke to KSRM on when Food Network filmed the episode in Homer in November, “We had three of them here in the Homer Chamber parking lot on Saturday afternoon and Sunday another at Grace Ridge, another at Alice’s. They ran out of food! It was so popular. We opened up the Chamber that Saturday afternoon. We had over 260 people come to the three food trucks here.”
The episodes air on Sunday night on the Food Network.
Soldotna Creek Park served as a ‘resting area’ for the food trucks on November 5th upon their trip south to Homer and local residents got to soak in the sights of the eye-popping food trucks.
