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    From Scratch: Inside the Food Network
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    From Scratch: Inside the Food Network

    Written by Allen Salkin

    Narrated by Julian Fleischer

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    About this audiobook

    Big personalities, high drama—the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of the Food Network, now about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary: the business, media, and cultural juggernaut that changed the way America thinks about food.

    In October 1993, a tiny start-up called the Food Network debuted to little notice. Twenty years later, it is in 100 million homes, approaches a billion dollars a year in revenue, and features a galaxy of stars whose faces and names are as familiar to us as our own family's.

    But what we don't know about them, and the people behind them, could fill a book.

    Based upon extensive inside access, documents, and interviews with hundreds of executives, stars, and employees all up and down the ladder, Allen Salkin's book is an exhilarating roller-coaster ride from chaos to conquest (and sometimes back). As Salkin takes us inside the conference rooms, studios, homes, restaurants, and after-hours meetings, we see a salty Julia Child lording it over the early network performers; a fragile Emeril Lagasse staggering from the sudden public shock of cancellation; a very green Rachael Ray nearly burning down the set on her first day; a torn Tyler Florence accepting the Applebee's job he knows he can't refuse, but with a chill running down his spine; a determined Bobby Flay reinventing himself once again to survive.

    Paula Deen, Tom Colicchio, Anthony Bourdain, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, Martha Stewart, Guy Fieri, Cat Cora: Salkin illuminates the people we thought we knew, and the ones we never knew about, in this irresistible story of the intersection between business, television, pop culture, food—and us.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9780698139145
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    From Scratch: Inside the Food Network
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    Allen Salkin

    ALLEN SALKIN has reported on media, business and culture for Vanity Fair and the New York Times, among others.

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    • 3/5
      Interesting, but if you're looking for dish, look elsewhere. The book's chief focus is how a small network focused on food and cooking became a media giant.
    • 4/5
      A in-depth look at the creation of The Food Network to present day. Interesting look at behind the scenes and rise and fall of cooking personalities and the people who got them on the air.
    • 4/5
      A in-depth look at the creation of The Food Network to present day. Interesting look at behind the scenes and rise and fall of cooking personalities and the people who got them on the air.