5 SIGNS THE FOOD APOCALYPSE IS NEAR
The Dish
1. The Food Network is now entering the restaurant biz. Read about it here: http://bit.ly/cPcL1v. Know what this means? That soon this easily-influenced nation of food-obsessed will be driven to dine at spots that TV execs deem necessary. Like anywhere Guy Fieri makes a scene at. Oh, wait, that already happens.
2. The Fine Living Network is soon to become The Cooking Channel, which means that by this time next year, we will have watched or cooked every possible recipe, ever. Need a family-friendly pasta dish cooked by a Barefoot Contessa who dreams of a food revolution with organic ingredients and throwing down with Iron Chef Bobby Flay in 30 minutes or less? You’ll find it on Scripps.
3. Local food bloggers are multiplying like Gizmo after midnight. A smidge of them are listed here: http://bit.ly/93m5ag. Since this town has as many food blogs as it used to have magazines, we wonder, will the pack implode? A lot of them, however, don’t update frequently. Leaving the sites silent like a calm before a storm. A giant, deadly, apocalyptic storm.
4. Two words: “Gastropubs” and “Foodies.” The first word has been swiftly stolen from our friends in Europe, raped by American restaurants looking for a catchy, exotic hook to get people through the door, and bastardized with menus that are nothing more than what you’ll find at George & Dragon. The second word … Remember what life was like when Christmas meant something more than Best Buy and gift cards? No, you can’t, because we eat and consume and make a business out of everything now. Even the very thing that keeps us alive. Check out the Wiki definition here.
5. That we’ve been working on an EATERAZ site redesign for what feels like years and it’s still not done. Well, it is, and it isn’t. See, when we migrated all the old content over to the new home, the last month of stories went missing in cyberspace. So if you see it out there, can you call us? We’re hoping this month of missing content doesn’t signify something bigger. Like an earthquake or volcano or worse—another Cooking Channel show.
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