If you haven’t seen Food Party yet, then you better find a friend that has IFC (Independent Film Channel), break into their house Tuesday night, fix yourself a fried bologna doughnut sandwich and watch the cable premiere at 11:15pm. Food Party is the creation of a team of recent Cleveland Institute of Art grads, which includes our beloved friend Zachariah Durr, director of the absurdly delightful cooking show. The Food Partiers describe their labor of culinary love as    

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 technicolor 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.

If you don’t have IFC, don’t know of anyone that has it or have an issue with breaking and entering, then you can watch old episodes on the Food Party website. The show has such a raw energy right now…I just hope it doesn’t go mainstream. Fortunately, I’m pretty confident Thu won’t be asked as a challenger on Iron Chef anytime soon. Or am I…

Food Party Premiere :: Tuesday, June 9th @ 11:15pm on IFC