Dinner with the Band Buzz

The host is tattooed and goateed Sam Mason—“part rocker, part chef”—of New York’s WD-50, who employs the musical fingers of touring bands for help in making such exotic specialties as black olive cobbler and miso butterscotch halibut (along with more staid creations, like steak and frites and bagels and lox).

ON Networks has five food and drink shows to choose from: Budget Health Nut, Cocktails on the Fly, Dinner with the Band, Food Science and Stump the Chef. 

LA-based Pigeon John has to be one of our favorite hip hop acts that nobody seems to have heard of. We intend to change that by posting this great clip of his performance of "Money Back Guarantee" from On Network's Dinner With The Band.

Dinner with the Band was featured on the Wall Street Journal morning radio show.

To any home cook who rocks out to a vegetable-prep soundtrack, the idea that music can inspire great food is nothing new.

"...the witty, goateed and extremely good-looking Mason is way hipper than Emeril or Bobby Flay."

The company is picking up the show and three other series from ON Networks, an Internet production company that puts together some pretty sterling content, despite the lowered expectations that come with the digital medium these days.