I was going to say that a recent version of "Guess Who's Coming to Cook Dinner" was the Food Network's "Door Knock Dinners" show, but that was the late '90s which actually isn't that recent. The only episode I watched was the one with Iron Chefs, who were in NY to battle Bobby Flay, went out to some suburban house. Although I could imagine the tv show being more staged than the NYT experiment.
I was going to say that a recent version of "Guess Who's Coming to Cook Dinner" was the Food Network's "Door Knock Dinners" show, but that was the late '90s which actually isn't that recent. The only episode I watched was the one with Iron Chefs, who were in NY to battle Bobby Flay, went out to some suburban house. Although I could imagine the tv show being more staged than the NYT experiment.