# Family Food Fight (American TV series)

Family Food Fight is an American cooking reality competition television series based on the Australian television series of the same name. The series is produced by Endemol Shine North America and Yardie Girl Productions, with Faye Stapleton, Ayesha Curry, Michael O'Sullivan, Shab Azma, Robert Flutie, Sharon Levy, DJ Nurre, and Georgie Hurford-Jones serving as executive producers. It premiered on ABC on June 20, 2019, and consisted of 8 episodes.

## Contestants

| Family | Members | Relationship | Hometown | Status |
| Lenzi | EJ, Toni and Gabbie | Dad, mom and daughter | Chicago, Illinois | Eliminated 1st (June 20, 2019) |
| Min | Jason, Alex and Mike | Brothers | Chicago, Illinois | Eliminated 2nd (June 27, 2019) |
| Graves | DJ, Kris and Mike | Brothers | Santa Rosa, California | Eliminated 3rd (July 11, 2019) |
| Lee | Meily, Amanda and Victoria | Mom and daughters | San Francisco, California | Eliminated 4th (July 18, 2019) |
| White | Darlene, Shayla and Tan | Cousins | Texarkana, Arkansas | Eliminated 5th (August 1, 2019) |
| Livanos | Lorena, Enrico and Johnny | Mom and Sons | Armonk, New York | Eliminated 6th (August 8, 2019) |
| Nichols | Chris, Tammy and Eddie | Husband, wife and brother | Paulding County, Georgia | Runners-up (August 15, 2019) |
| Maniya | Azeema, Fatima and Kiran | Sisters-in-law | Chicago, Illinois | Winners (August 15, 2019) |

## Elimination chart

| Place | Family | Episodes | Episodes | Episodes | Episodes | Episodes | Episodes | Episodes | Episodes |
| Place | Family | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 1 | Maniya | | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WINNERS |
| 2 | Nichols | | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | RUNNERS-UP |
| 3 | Livanos | | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | |
| 4 | White | WIN | | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | | |
| 5 | Lee | SAFE | | SAFE | ELIM | | | | |
| 6 | Graves | SAFE | | ELIM | | | | | |
| 7 | Min | | ELIM | | | | | | |
| 8 | Lenzi | ELIM | | | | | | | |
* ↑ In Episode 5, the remaining teams did not cook with their families, rather they cooked with their competitors, and they cooked alone in the elimination challenge, thus no one was eliminated.

## Episodes

| No. | Title | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | Rating/share (18–49) |
| 1 | "Meet the Families: Part 1" | June 20, 2019 (2019-06-20) | 2.85 | 0.6/3 |
| Challenge: The first four families are given two hours to cook a family feast of a minimum of 6 dishes with one of them having to be a dessert. The White family was the winner of the challenge, secured one of the three available kitchens, and was safe from elimination. Challenge Winner/Immune: White family Elimination Challenge: The remaining three families were tasked in making a Breakfast-for-Dinner of three dishes; two savory and one sweet, with one of the savory dishes needing to contain a hollandaise sauce, in 45 minutes. The Graves and Lee families were declared safe, leaving the Lenzi family eliminated. Eliminated: Lenzi family |||||
| 2 | "Meet the Families: Part 2" | June 27, 2019 (2019-06-27) | 2.52 | 0.6/3 |
| 3 | "Surf & Turf / Birthday Cake Challenge" | July 11, 2019 (2019-07-11) | 2.35 | 0.5/3 |
| 4 | "Food on the Brain / How the Sausage is Made" | July 18, 2019 (2019-07-18) | 1.74 | 0.3/2 |
| 5 | "Leftovers Challenge / Farm to Table" | July 25, 2019 (2019-07-25) | 1.87 | 0.4/2 |
| 6 | "Game Day Grilling / Mission Im-PASTA-ble" | August 1, 2019 (2019-08-01) | 1.81 | 0.4/2 |
| 7 | "Recipe Relay / What's on the Menu?" | August 8, 2019 (2019-08-08) | 1.36 | 0.3/2 |
| 8 | "The Finale" | August 15, 2019 (2019-08-15) | 1.58 | 0.3/2 |

## Production
### Development

In June 2018, ABC acquired the rights to the Australian cooking reality competition television series Family Food Fight and ordered 8 episodes. Cookbook author and food personality Ayesha Curry serves as both host and one of the judges, and executive produces alongside Robert Flutie, Shab Azma, DJ Nurre, Georgie Hurford-Jones, Faye Stapleton and Michael O'Sullivan. The series is produced by Endemol Shine North America and Yardie Girl Productions. It features eight American families facing off in high-pressure cooking challenges inspired by real home cooking and family food traditions to determine which is the country's top food family and win a grand prize of $100,000. Open casting calls were held in July in Los Angeles, California, and in August in Chicago, Illinois and New York, New York. Online video submissions were also accepted. In October 2018, Cat Cora and Graham Elliot were announced as judges alongside Curry.

### Filming

Production began at the end of October in Los Angeles.