Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 16) Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 16) The sixteenth season of the American competitive reality television series "Hell's Kitchen" premiered on September 23, 2016 on Fox. Gordon Ramsay returned as host/head chef, Marino Monferrato and Aaron Mitrano returned as maitre d' and blue kitchen sous chef respectively while Andi van Willigan-Cutspec resumed her role as sous chef for the red team after Season 10 winner Christina Wilson filled in for her in the previous season while she got married. This was also the first season since Season 13 to take a hiatus due to Fox's coverage of the 2016 World Series in
The French Chef Chef. As part of its growing Twitch Creative content, Twitch.tv streamed every episode of "The French Chef" over a four-day period starting on March 15, 2016, to launch its new food channel. Twitch reported that almost a million viewers watched the marathon. Two companion cookbooks were written along with the show. "The French Chef Cookbook" was a show-by-show breakdown of the black and white series, while "From Julia Child's Kitchen" was a somewhat more ambitious work that was based on the color series but also added considerable extra material. The French Chef The French Chef is a television cooking show