Food Party is can only be described by us as a demented version of Pee-wee’s Playhouse meets the Food Network. The show is a mind-bending, non-reality cooking show with Thu Tran as your hostess, a cast of unruly puppets as culinary aides, and a cavalcade of fictitious celebrities as surprise dinner guests.
Shot on location in a Pee-wee Playhouse-like cardboard kitchen as well as other foreign and exotic cardboard locations, each episode will or will not instruct you on how to prepare wild gourmet multi-course meals with ingredients you probably have on hand in your kitchen already, such as pretzel rods, eggs, narwhal lungs, bizarre plot twists, secret ingredients, and pizza. After all, you never know who might show up for dinner.
Although the Food Party was born on the Internet, it makes it TV debut on IFC tonite. In its television incarnation “Food Party” episodes run about 10 minutes each and make no pretense about offering any actual cooking advice. By contrast, the online episodes run about 30 minutes. You can see her earlier episodes here.
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More about Thu Tran
Thu Tran was born in Malaysia, raised in Cleveland OH, and presently resides in Brooklyn NY. She is also Vietnamese. Out of anything she could have studied in art school in Cleveland, she studied Glass.
Besides being a nationally exhibited visual artist since graduating from school, Tran has worked a variety of amazing jobs such as handyman assistant, plumber assistant, food delivery driver, freelance sculptor and illustrator, glassblowing assistant, and glassblowing instructor. Thu spent a good part of 2008 with Girl Talk, providing props and visuals on a 35 city tour of North America. She has also performed with art sports double-dutch team “Double Dutch will Take You Higher” and also currently performs as “Baby B” at Bad Brilliance shows.
Tran has been profiled by the NY Times, was recently named to “New York’s Most Beautiful People” list by Paper Magazine, and was recently awarded the Out of the Box Award at the 2008 New York Television Festival for her work on Food Party.