Cumberland's Jennifer Vecchio is a contestant in the newest Food Network reality show "Worst Cooks in America."

The promotional material tells us "That's not just a cute title. These people are baaaad."

Really!

Twelve of the most hopeless cooks in the country will compete in a high-stakes elimination series for six weeks that will net the last cook standing a grand prize of $25,000. The series will put the "recruits" through a culinary boot camp led by two chefs: Beau MacMillan, executive chef at elements restaurant in Phoenix, a Plymouth, Mass. native and a Johnson & Wales University grad and Anne Burrell, host of "Secrets of a Restaurant Chef".

Vecchio is on MacMillian's team.

She is a 38 year old dance teacher, wife and mother of four, who has promised to best the competition in the video introduction of all the competitors.

She's as cute as a bug.

I hope to interview her this week and publish the story in Saturday's Lifebeat section and at projo.com/food.

The show premieres on Sunday (Jan. 3) at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. See a sneak peek here.