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    Posted on December 4th, 2008

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    FN Crazy

    FN Crazy

    FoodVu is a food site with a definite video bent. They host a number of different styles of short-format, food related video, including instructional and humorous videos. The flagship video series is The FN Crazy Show, which explores what’s happening at the Food Network. Not to be confused with FN Dish, which is a Food [...]

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    Posted on November 20th, 2008

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    Lesson Learned: Possible; Robert Irvine is back on television

    Lesson Learned: Possible; Robert Irvine is back on television

    I would probably have skipped this story had I not made a big deal of it before, but it should be noted: Robert Irvine is returning to Dinner: Impossible. The official story is that Iron Chef New Guy was just filling in until, I dunno, Irvine was contrite enough or something.
    Probably most of it was [...]

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    Posted on May 16th, 2008

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    Robert Irvine, if that is your name

    I believe we’ve touched briefly upon Dinner: Impossible on the podcast before. I quite enjoyed the first few episodes, with its reality-tv-like challenges, but presumably with a proven chef at the helm etc.
    As time went on, I ditched its Season Pass from the Tivo, because the challenges didn’t really become more interesting, and the more [...]

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    Posted on May 11th, 2008

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    Iron Chef Judge, Mo Rocca

    I’ve done an actual interview. Woo! Okay, it was a single question, and I didn’t record it or anything, but I takes what I gots.
    I was at Thursday’s taping of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! which will be airing today with special “Not My Job” guest Neil Patrick Harris. They tell us at the beginning [...]

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    Posted on May 11th, 2008

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    Alton Brown reups for another three years

    Alton Brown reups for another three years: “
    Filed under: Business, Television/Film
    It is my opinion that Alton Brown is one of the best things about the Food Network these days. Rachael Ray jumped the shark when she teamed up with Oprah and I can not deal with the train wreck that is Sandra Lee. [...]

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    Posted on May 11th, 2008

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    Podcast 12 - Music and Myth

    Music and Myth. An examination of segments of cooking shows, with specific attention paid to background music as well as a brief criticism of an episode of Good Eats.

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    Posted on May 11th, 2008

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    Podcast 10 - Travel, Cake, and Contests

    Travel, Cake, and Contests, an examination of the summer shows on Food Network.
    An examination of Feasting on Asphalt, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, Ace of Cakes, and Road Tasted. There’s some mention here and there of Food Network Challenge, Kitchen Accomplished, Iron Chef America, Sugar Rush, $40 a Day, and No reservations.

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    Posted on May 11th, 2008

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    Episode 7 - Foretelling, Illiteracy, and Reality…anyways.

    A podcast in which the announcer revisits earlier shows with an eye towards the future. Includes references to the Ithica Journal’s coverage of Iron Chef as well as the Washington Post’s coverage of people not being able to understand recipes. Also chatter about Bravo TV’s Top Chef and the Food Network’s Next Food Network Star.

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    Posted on May 11th, 2008

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    Podcast 1 - Food Network Vagaries

    Here’s my first podcast. It’s mostly me talking about things I’ve seen on the Food Network, plus some thoughts on recipes and what have you.