About Hungry Nation
We're all hungry. From CEOs with pantries full of fine caviar to college students with mini-fridges full of leftover ramen, we've all gotta eat, and we might as well have fun doing it. At Hungry Nation, we're not trained chefs or professional restaurant critics, just real people with a real love for food. Join us for lunch?
Get to Know the Shows
Working Class Foodies
Working Class Foodies follows siblings Rebecca and Max Lando - and their dog, Humphrey - on their quest to find the best local and seasonal ingredients the city has to offer, and turn them into delicious meals - all while keeping the budget under $6/person.
VendrTV
VendrTV covers the best of the best curbside cuisine that the world has to offer. Each week, Dan Delaney highlights a different vendor, their on-the-go fare, and the people who dish it out. It’s good eats on the go.
12 Second Cocktails
Lush Life Productions presents 12 Second Cocktails - classic drink recipes at lightning fast speed; don't blink or you'll miss these tasty concoctions.
Tamra Davis Cooking Show
Tamra Davis invites you into her home and on her family’s travels, and shows you how to cook kid-friendly dishes with her kids underfoot. Even involving them in counting the required ingredients, peeling, rolling and folding. All with a hip, laid back vibe and a cool soundtrack.
Average Betty
Not anyone would make BBQ Chicken Mac n' Cheese Pizza, or ask the legendary Wolfgang Puck, “if I were on your menu, how would you prepare me?” Such lapses in better judgment by host, Sara O’Donnell, are precisely what make Average Betty an original, exciting and award-winning web series. Average Betty will inspire you with new, creative recipes; inform you with celebrity chef interviews; and entertain you with crazy culinary satire.
Food Wishes
Chef John Mitzewich shows you how to make all different kinds of food that are really fun, easy to follow, and will improve your culinary skills. From breakfast dishes to light appetizers to main course meals to scrumptious desserts, Chef John will take you through the recipe step by step. He knows everything there is to know about food and he is ready to share it with you!
Mmm, Me Gusta
Mmm, Me Gusta is a DIY cooking show where you, the viewers, drive the content. It’s a spicy cooking show by home cook, Claudia Yuskoff and her uppity cat, Missile. Since 2009, Mmm Me Gusta has blended cooking with storytelling, pop culture, cat randomness, and most importantly, good noms! Watch for yourself because Claudia (and the rest of her giant family) wants to feed you!
Meet the Hosts
Daniel Delaney
Daniel Delaney is a 20-something foodie, entrepreneur, designer, and who first fell in love with street food on the streets of Philadelphia. Unable to part with said love, he spun his passion into a project and launched VendrTV in an attempt to chronicle the best street food around. When not scouring the streets for tasty tidbits, Dan loves typography, macchiatos, NPR, and old books. His favorite mobile meal would be Berlin’s Döner Kebab Sandwiches.
Max Lando
Max Lando is an actor, writer, and amateur cook from Sarasota, Florida (though he’d be quick to tell you he’s originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). A recent graduate of the University of Central Florida, Max is new to New York and excited to hit the food scene - with his fists, if necessary. Aside from his work on the stage, Max is also a published poet and is working on an original stage musical. He is currently unemployed and is living on his sister's couch. You can email him at foodie@workingclassfoodies.com for his resume or if you would like him to crash on your couch for awhile (please).
Rebecca Lando
Rebecca Lando can't remember a time when she didn't love to cook. From baking cookies for class as a kid to whipping up 5-course dinner parties, Rebecca has always felt at home in the kitchen. A screenwriter from NYU's Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at the Tisch School of the Arts, Rebecca splits her time between writing and cooking dishes that capitalize upon the environmentalism and community of the local, seasonal, and sustainable food movement. Her beeramisu was voted best dessert by Johnny Iuzzini, Executive Pastry Chef at Jean Georges, at the 2009 Brooklyn Beer Experiment Cookoff. She lives in Manhattan with her boyfriend and their rescued basset hound, Humphrey.
Tamra Davis
Tamra Davis is a film, television and music video director.While spending much time at home and on the road with 2 boys, make that 3 boys, she discovered a love for television and has directed such shows as Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty and My Name Is Earl. She is currently making a documentary on the painter, Jean-Michel Basquait and is pursuing her interest in internet content with a self made series called Tamra Davis Cooking Show.com in which she shares her passion for food, filmmaking and family.
John Mitzewich
Known as the web’s most popular video recipe personality, John Mitzewich teaches you how to cook one video recipe at a time. Chef John received his AAS Degree with Honors in Culinary Arts/Chef Training from Paul Smith’s College and has been working in the Culinary industry ever since. His charming attitude combined with his legendary sense of humor has helped him gain a loyal following of foodie lovers on the Internet.
Sarah O’Donnell
Sara O’Donnell is a food blogger and creator/producer of Average Betty. As the last of six children, Sara learned to, among other things, cook at an early age. She created her first recipe for “warm chocolate” in preschool, and has since authored over a hundred original recipes. KTTV Fox-11 Los Angeles calls Sara “the hottest, newest food personality on the web;” she won Yahoo! Video's Best Internet Personality award in 2007; she has received Best of Podcast honors from iTunes; and won Best Home Chef in a Series for Average Betty at the 2010 Tasty Awards in San Francisco. Sara earned her BA in Art History from UCLA and continues to live in, and love, Los Angeles.
Claudia Yuskoff
Along with 15 million Americans, Claudia Yuskoff lost her job during the recession. During this period, she let her imaginative mind flourish and created Mmm, Me Gusta – A Little Cooking Show. She never attended culinary school, but she is a home cook who was raised by a large family that thrived on delicious Mexican chow. All the meals she cooks on her show are recipes that her mother taught her along with some occasional dishes she learned from friends and travels. Beyond the show, Claudia created a Los Angeles-based dinner group called Eats & Geeks.
The Crew
Kit Pennebaker
Working Class FoodiesA New York City native born with a love of cinema, Kit has been working professionally in film since he was a teenager. In 2004, Kit graduated from New York University's prestigious Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at The Tisch School of the Arts, with a concentration in cinematography. He has apprenticed under such cinematographers as Russell Carpenter (Awake); Tom Richmond (Palindromes); and Buddy Squires (The Gates) as well as such iconic directors as Brian DePalma (Redacted) and the hit TV series, Project Runway. Today, Kit works as a director of photography on a variety of music videos, commercials, concerts, and narrative projects. Most recently, he worked as a cinematographer on a number of music videos for Next New Networks's webseries, $99 Music Videos.
Humphrey
Working Class FoodiesHumphrey is a basset hound who was rescued at the age of 10 weeks when Kit and Rebecca found his litter listed for adoption on AdoptAPet.com. He loves to eat and will try almost anything. He is very good at balancing things on his head and hopes to one day be a certified therapy dog.
About Next New Networks
Next New Networks is TV for the Internet. As the leading independent producer of online television networks Next New Networks creates, packages, brands, markets and syndicates some of the Web's most popular regularly scheduled and episodic programming. Since its inception in March 2007, the company has launched sixteen networks, and its programming has been viewed more than 500 million times. For more information, visit www.nextnewnetworks.com
