The 10 Hottest Women On "The Great Food Truck Race"

When The Great Food Truck Race premiered last year on Food Network, we were captivated. Not only was the premise cool—specialty food truck crews face off in a cross-country competition hosted by chef Tyler Florence to see who can make the most money between L.A. and NYC, for an ultimate prize of $50,000—but several teams were serving up beautiful employees to go with their dishes. Women with a competitive streak who can also cook? In a kitchen on wheels? Hello!

With the second season premiering tonight at 10 p.m., we decided to take a closer look at the hotties of Food Network's competition, including some newbies we expect will put the sizzle into Sunday nights.

Written by Tanya Ghahremani (@tanyaghahremani) and Justin Monroe (@40yardsplash)

On season two, Kristina reps for comfort food with the San Diego-based Devilicious truck, which, according to the team's introductory video, acquired its name because each employee has a bit of a devilish personality, and the food is delicious, ergo, "devilicious." Gotta love a girl with a bit of a bad streak!

Unfortunately, according to Sign on San Diego, Kristina and her partners in the business split up this past July for undisclosed reasons, and Kristina moved on to the equally awesome task of serving gourmet sandwiches to the comic book-obsessed masses during Comic-Con. Though we know the Deviliciousness won't last, we're excited to find out more about Kristina this season, 'cause girl makes bad look good.

Nicole runs the only vegan food truck in Orange County, Calif. with partners and fellow lookers Raya Belna and Stephanie Morgan, and not much is really known about her apart from the fact that her Facebook profile picture is pretty cool and she's one in a trio of pretty hot food truck owners. Until the next season airs, that's enough for us. So, like, she gave up meat completely?

Apart from working in this L.A.-based Cuban food truck on Season Two, Maria can actually boast the titles of "actress" and "model" on her resume—how's that for a triple threat? Though her biggest credit is one episode on Grey's Anatomy, it's still pretty cool, not to mention that this Cubana's IMDb page says she "stands at 5'9" with a personality to match." We have no idea what that means but it sound sassy!

We're not really into that vegan stuff, but for Raya and her Orange County-based partners, Nicole Daddona and Stephanie Morgan, we'd be willing to make some changes to our diet. Since Raya's a contestant in the upcoming season, we don't know too much about her yet, but some Internet sleuthing informed us that our girl here is a graduate of both San Francisco State University and the Light Culinary Arts Institute. But just because she's into healthy eating doesn't mean she's opposed to pleasure eating; in addition to being a tasty treat, she also runs her own dessert company, Sweet Raya Cakes.

On Season Two, musician Jacquelyn helps run the Cleveland-based Hodge Podge truck with her longtime boyfriend Chris Hodgson (damn!) and his sister, Catie. If you're interested in something called a "waffle taco" this cutie is your girl. Platonically, of course.

Melani wasn't technically an Austin Daily Press employee when the Texas food truck was featured in the first season, but she was still a contestant on the show and therefore qualifies for this list. She's the girlfriend of ADP co-owner Cory Nunez and, according to him, occasionally helps the actual duo out during events. She was brought on as a member of their group because the contest required three contestants per truck—and we can't say we're complaining.

You've got to love a beautiful woman who knows her way around a sandwich press and is down to lend a helping hand (generosity was common for ADP, as the trio donated about fifteen percent of their revenue to a little league team instead of keeping it to ensure their victory). Culinary prowess and a good heart—we can't lie, we're a little smitten. Sorry, Cory!

Along with partners Raya Belna and Nicole Daddona, Stephanie here runs the only vegan food truck in Orange County, California, called Seabirds. And, according to the Orange County Register, apparently she turned down a big job opportunity at an NYC investment firm in order to do it, admirably choosing her passion over the promise of big bucks. With a looker like Stephanie running a vegan eatery, we could see ourselves getting quite passionate about healthy eating too.

We were surprised and disappointed when Nom Nom finished second behind the heavy metal hamburger guys Grill 'Em All in the Season One finale, mostly because we were sad to see cutie co-founder Jennifer Green and her partners, the equally fine Misa Chien and David Kien, leave empty-handed. Their food truck, which specializes in Vietnamese sandwiches and tacos, basically ran over the competition every week. We can't help but think having two smoking hot chicks on board helped a little with that. Seriously, are you buying from the smelly Cajun dude cooking up gumbo or from Green? Thought so.

Jazmina, of the Hermosa Beach-based food truck Ragin' Cajun, wasn't in the competition terribly long (eliminated during just the second week), but damn did she make a pretty lasting impression with her peppiness and overall zest for, well, serving zesty food. The food truck is based off of the cafe of the same name located in Hermosa Beach, and at the time of the show's filming, Jazmina was both a waitress there as well as an employee at Deutsch Advertising Agency.

According to The Beach Reporter, a local newspaper there, she wasn't completely sure if she was going to participate in the show because, as it turns out, she's also a member of the Screen Actors Guild and was worried there might be a conflict of some sort. Luckily for us, there wasn't, and Jazmina took a leave of absence from work to participate in the show. Dedication!

Stunning Misa is a co-owner of the Vietnamese sandwich truck Nom Nom, which operates out of L.A. (She's also a model, which should come as no surprise to anyone who has eyes.) After graduating from UCLA with classmates Jennifer Green and David Kien, they started Nom Nom and began serving the world good food with a side of sexiness.

Though the Nommers didn't win the competition, Misa and her partner Jennifer are both winners as far as we're concerned. And hey, if they're really broken up over the loss, we're always here to offer comfort...a shoulder to cry on...you know, we even have two, so it is all good.