Emo-rappers Gym Class Heroes have taken up shop in a small Los Angeles studio to record their as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2006's As Cruel as School Children, set for release sometime this summer. Speaking with Rolling Stone, the band’s MC, Travis McCoy, says he’s fueled recording sessions on a drink he’s coined the Travalanche (a syrupy combination of merlot and Sprite) and, apparently, the Food Network.

“The band has been in the small studio, located behind a Koreatown barbershop, for a week,” Rolling Stone reports. “The big-screen TV is permanently tuned to the Food Network, with the band members hoping for a glimpse of sexy Italian host Giada De Laurentiis between takes.”

Maybe it should be no surprise the crew is composed of foodies, considering it's smash single is called “Cupid’s Chokehold / Breakfast in America” (the second half of that title comes from the Supertramp song they sample), in which McCoy gushes when his girlfriend cooks him pancakes.

More Gym Class Heroes can be heard on their MySpace page.