The Price of Guy Fieri's Friendship: $100,000

How much would you pay to hang out with Guy Fieri for a day? NYT restaurant critic Pete Wells would probably say “nothing”, because he can’t forgive the Guy for ruining a plate of nachos, aka the “hardest [dish] in the American canon to mess up”. But for hedge funder Steven A. Cohen, the experience was worth $100,000.

What did that sum buy the man? According to the recently published expose From Scratch: Inside the Food Network, the deal was that Cohen and Fieri would be “friends for a day” and do all the awesome things you see each week on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.

But—as

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