Getting ready for fall on Food Network and Cooking Channel

It’s football season, a time when the sports fan’s thoughts turn to tailgating.

Food Network’s “The Kitchen” is right there with them, and in the episode airing Saturday, Sept. 25, Geoffrey Zakarian is setting the stage with his upstate-style roast beef sandwich while Alex Guarnachelli gets in the spirit of the season with her apple hot toddy. Elsewhere Katie Lee Biegel hearkens back to her college days waiting tables with her Cincinnati-style chili, Sunny Anderson makes her grilled corn with Cajun trinity butter and Jeff Mauro tops things off with his giant peanut butter dark chocolate sea salt buckeyes. A spread suitable for any parking lot.

Elsewhere on Food Network, the season premiere of “Girl Meets Farm” on Sunday, Sept. 19, finds host Molly Yeh getting the day going with her hammy hot dish breakfast, followed a Mommy-and-me lunch consisting of her savory tomato basil soup with parmesan and bunny pesto cristos on the side. And for dessert, it’s her mini princess cakes.

Saturday on “Guy’s Ranch Kitchen,” Guy Fieri is in the mood for a clambake, so Rocco DiSpirito stops by with his Southampton clambake in a can and his clam chowder jalapeno poppers to get things rolling. Jonathan Waxman offers up his seafood al cartoccio and a grilled zucchini and eggplant casserole with a pistachio pesto. And on the sweet side is a juniper-infused blueberry cobbler courtesy of Aarti Sequeira.

If it is Southern fare you crave, chef Kardea Brown has what you seek in Sunday’s episode of “Delicious Miss Brown,” as she hits the road to Atlanta to make her mom a meal consisting of New Orleans-style barbecued shrimp and grilled rubbed chicken with an Alabama white sauce paired with a rainbow carrot and fennel salad with apricots and washed down an unwind sangria.

Speaking of hitting the road, Andrew Zimmern is really getting out and about in the Monday, Sept. 20, edition of “Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations” on Cooking Channel,“as he ventures to Santiago, Chile, to sample the iconic flavors and signature dishes of this culinary destination, such as Asado a la Parrilla, Pastel de Jaiba and Chacarero.

And on the Wednesday, Sept. 22, edition of Cooking’s “Food Paradise,” a delicious drink and a savory dish is the order of the day, which means comestibles such as a deep fried lobster mac and cheese, an oversized corned beef sandwich and a surf-and-turf po’ boy are paired with libations like a liquid nitrogen margarita, a drink called a hurricane and all manner of craft beers.