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Food Network: 20 Years of Changing Food Culture
by Associated Press | October 18, 2013 at 10:37 AM | Food Network, TV News
By J.M. Hirsch
NEW YORK (AP) Talk about an unlikely recipe for success a cable network dedicated to food?
It may not seem even a little preposterous today, but when Food Network launched 20 years ago America was sitting at a very different dinner table. This was before wed learned to fetishize cupcakes, before Instagram made our every mouthful a shared experience, before vegetables had cult followings.
And yet this backwater network launched, plunking cameras in front of chefs many of them truly not ready for prime time and hoping for the best.
The gamble paid off. Two decades on, the Food Network has morphed beyond a television channel that teaches us how to cook (more about that in a moment). It has become a lifestyle, a marketing behemoth turning chefs and home cooks into household names even with people who never cook...
http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013/10/18/food-network-20-years-of-changing-food-culture/
by Associated Press | October 18, 2013 at 10:37 AM | Food Network, TV News
By J.M. Hirsch
NEW YORK (AP) Talk about an unlikely recipe for success a cable network dedicated to food?
It may not seem even a little preposterous today, but when Food Network launched 20 years ago America was sitting at a very different dinner table. This was before wed learned to fetishize cupcakes, before Instagram made our every mouthful a shared experience, before vegetables had cult followings.
And yet this backwater network launched, plunking cameras in front of chefs many of them truly not ready for prime time and hoping for the best.
The gamble paid off. Two decades on, the Food Network has morphed beyond a television channel that teaches us how to cook (more about that in a moment). It has become a lifestyle, a marketing behemoth turning chefs and home cooks into household names even with people who never cook...
http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013/10/18/food-network-20-years-of-changing-food-culture/