Food Network is a cable network that airs specials and recurring (episodic) programs about food and cooking. It is owned by The E.W. Scripps Company.The network is seen in more than ninety million households. In addition to New York, it has offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit and Knoxville.Food Network can be seen internationally in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Monaco, Andorra, France, and the French-speaking territories in the Caribbean, Polynesia and Trinidad and Tobago.Food Network was founded on November 23, 1993 as TV Food Network; its legal name is still Television Food Network, G.P. Within a few years, the network had shortened its on-air brand name. Joe Langhan, now an executive producer with the Wine Network, created the concept for Food Network in 1991 while working at the Providence Journal.Food Network is owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. Scripps acquired the Food Network from the A. H. Belo Corp. Corporation (in exchange for broadcast stations KENS-AM/TV in San Antonio, Texas) in 1997, which had acquired the network through a takeover of the Providence Journal Company earlier that year.

From bangers and mash to pâté (Seattle Times)

John Haney's memoir is rollicking, unzipped and sometimes incomprehensible to American readers less than intimate with British cockney English. And it's altogether unforgettable.

Food Notes: UConn Chefs Can Stand The Heat (Hartford Courant)

Last Thursday, a group of chefs at the University of Connecticut reached the "Boiling Point," but luckily for those around them, the men and women with access to knives and cleavers weren't angry.

Food Network Makes Three-Year Agreement With Host Alton Brown (TV Week)

Food Network signed a new three-year agreement with host Alton Brown. The channel recently re-signed celebrity cook Rachael Ray, but has a less-certain relationship with its biggest star Emeril Lagasse. Production of long-running “Emeril Live” was halted late last year.

SHOW CHEFS (The Patriot-News)

Bill Scepansky grabbed a blood orange, rolled it in his hand, dropped it on a cutting board and sliced both ends off "so it doesn't weeble wooble."

Food Network signs deal with host Alton Brown (Crain's New York Business)

Under his new three-year deal, Mr. Brown will produce new seasons of Good Eats and Iron Chef America, plus specials.