Food Network star Tyler Florence of ‘Great Food Truck Race’

Celebrity chef Tyler Florence, with Teams Plates on Deck, Bao Bei, Argentina’s Empanadas, Cooks with Passion, Kalye, Fish Net, Wally’s Waffles, DTG Tacos and SO LA PoBoy’s, hosts “The Great Food Truck Race.” Season 17 premieres Sunday, June 30, 2024, on the Food Network.

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Tyler Florence is the star chef and host of the Food Network’s “Great Food Truck Race,” shown here during filming on Four Tree Island in Portsmouth, N.H., in February 2019. [RICH BEAUCHESE/SEACOASTONLINE]

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Buns N’ Thighs, Chops’ Shop, Heroes On A Half Shell, Just Wing It, Mobile Moo Shu, New England Grill and Sassy Soul team members in front of their trucks with host Tyler Florence, as seen on “The Great Food Truck Race,” season 9.

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Celebrity chef Tyler Florence of Food Network’s “The Great Food Truck Race” films a spot while attending an event at the Fort Myers Brewing Co. in Fort Myers on Wednesday April, 24, 2019. The show had been shooting in the Fort Myers area.

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Celebrity chef Tyler Florence of the Food Network’s “The Great Food Truck Race” hands food to Ben Brainard the Fort Myers Brewing Co. in Fort Myers, Florida, on Wednesday April, 24, 2019. The show had been shooting in the Fort Myers area.

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Food Network host Tyler Florence with contestant Indianapolis chef Robert Graham of Black Circle Brewing as seen on “Bite Club,” season 1.

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Darrel Baker, left, photographs acclaimed Chef Tyler Florence, Food Network host and award-winning wine maker, with Maureen McClamma at Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants during an interactive cooking demonstration, a multi-course dinner with wine pairings and a meet-and-greet on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

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Acclaimed chef Tyler Florence, Food Network host and award-winning winemaker, garnishes an appetizer at Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants during an interactive cooking demonstration, a multicourse dinner with wine pairings and a meet-and-greet on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

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Acclaimed Chef Tyler Florence, Food Network host and award-winning wine maker, meets with reporters at Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants during an interactive cooking demonstration, a multi-course dinner with wine pairings and a meet-and-greet on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

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Acclaimed Chef Tyler Florence, Food Network host and award-winning wine maker, garnishes an appetizer with his assistant chef, Matt Masera, left, at Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants during an interactive cooking demonstration, a multi-course dinner with wine pairings and a meet-and-greet on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

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Acclaimed Chef Tyler Florence, Food Network host and award-winning wine maker, meets with Jackie Dzugan at Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants during an interactive cooking demonstration, a multi-course dinner with wine pairings and a meet-and-greet on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

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Acclaimed chef Tyler Florence, Food Network host and award-winning winemaker, signs Jackie Dzugan’s cookbook at Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants during an interactive cooking demonstration, a multicourse dinner with wine pairings and a meet-and-greet on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

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Acclaimed Chef Tyler Florence, Food Network host and award-winning wine maker, garnishes an appetizer with Randall Sabado, left, at Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants during an interactive cooking demonstration, a multi-course dinner with wine pairings and a meet-and-greet on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

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Tyler Florence of the Food Network’s ‘The Great Food Truck Race’ jokes with a contesant from NOLA Creations 504 food truck while attending an event at the Fort Myers Brewing Co. in Fort Myers on Wednesday April, 24, 2019. The show has been shooting in the Fort Myers area over the last several days.

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John Fritch, left, chef at Peaks restaurant, and Food Network star Tyler Florence prepare to judge salads on an episode of “The Great Food Truck Race” at the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in Palm Springs, Calif., on Monday, June 24, 2019.

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Acclaimed Chef Tyler Florence, left, and Tim McEnery, founder of Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants, pose for a photo with a Sauvignon Blanc offered exclusively to Wine Club members on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

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Food Network star Tyler Florence and the chefs of five food trucks from “The Great Food Truck Race” pose after shooting an episode at the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in Palm Springs, California, on Monday, June 24, 2019.

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Contestant chef Natalie Wall of Indianapolis as seen on “Bite Club,” season 1, on the Food Network with celebrity chef Tyler Florence in this August 2018 photo. Wall serves up comfort food at Rize restaurant at the Ironworks Hotel.

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Tyler Florence talks to the crowd during GLOW Academy’s Celebrity Chef Event held Friday Jan. 24, 2020, at the Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, N.C. Chef Tyler Florence, host of Food Network’s “Great Food Truck Race,” challenged six local food trucks to a Food Truck Throw Down during the GLOW event. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

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Food Network star Tyler Florence, host of “The Great Food Truck Race,” talks to one of the food truck crews during filming for the show in downtown Fort Myers, Florida, on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024.

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Celebrity chef Tyler Florence, host of Food Network’s “The Great Food Truck Race,” posed with Bennett’s Fresh Roast owner Bob Grissinger in his Fort Myers, Florida, shop on Tuesday, April 23, 2019.

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Celebrity chef Tyler Florence, center in black, poses with the team from Rosy Tomorrows Heritage Farm in North Fort Myers, Florida, on April 25, 2019. Florence is a longtime Food Network star and host of “The Great Food Truck Race.”

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Tyler Florence of the Food Network’s “Great Food Truck Race” jokes with a contestant while attending an event at the Fort Myers Brewing Co. in Florida on Wednesday April, 24, 2019. The show had been shooting in the Fort Myers area.

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Tyler Florence meets with the crew of the Bao Bei food truck during filming for “The Great Food Truck Race” in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024.

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Tyler Florence of the Food Network’s ‘The Great Food Truck Race’ films a spot while attending an event at the Fort Myers Brewing Co. in Fort Myers on Wednesday April, 24, 2019. The show has been shooting in the Fort Myers area over the last several days.

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Acclaimed Chef Tyler Florence, Food Network host and award-winning wine maker, prepares for an interactive cooking demonstration at Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

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Tyler Florence of the Food Network’s “Great Food Truck Race” hands food made by the Brunch Babes to Ben Brainard at the Fort Myers Brewing Co. in Fort Myers on Wednesday April, 24, 2019. The show had been shooting in the Fort Myers, Florida, area.

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