STEW LEONARD'S FEATURED ON FOOD NETWORK'S
NEW CULINARY COMEDY SHOW, "HAM ON THE STREET"

Episode Airs Wednesday, March 1 at 10:30 P.M.

NORWALK, Conn., Feb. 20, 2006 -- The Food Network's newest show, "Ham on the Street" combines cooking and comedy with some reality TV thrown into the mix. Stew Leonard's Norwalk store location is the setting for an upcoming episode titled "Free Food" that airs on Wednesday, March 1 at 10:30 P.M. and features several local residents.

The show's host, George Duran, is stationed at a demo table in the store's produce department with a banner that reads, "Free Food." He instructs customers approaching the table that in order to get some "free food" they must go around the store retrieving copious amounts of free samples (as many as they can get away with) and bring the samples back to him. When the bewildered customers deposit their culinary coffers, George whips up a gourmet snack for them combining the food they collected.

"During the filming, George gave participants a plastic container and told them to go around the store collecting as many free samples as they could. The reactions of the unsuspecting Stew Leonard's demo team members to all of their samples disappearing is hilarious, and really tests the strength of Stew Leonard's policy that
‘the customer is always right'," said Meghan Flynn, Stew Leonard's vice president of public relations.

Tune into the Food Network on Wednesday, March 1 at 10:30 P.M. E.S.T. for all of the foodie fun.

Stew Leonard's, a family-owned and operated grocery founded in 1969, has three stores in Norwalk and Danbury, Conn. and Yonkers, N.Y., with additional stores planned in East Farmingdale, N.Y. and Orange, Conn. The company was named among FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work" for the past five consecutive years.