Commentary on Rachel Ray's website and her new travel show on the Food Network.

Learn more about TV chef Rachael Ray, host of 30 Minute Meals, $40 a Day and Rachael Ray s Tasty Travels on Food Network.

Alton Brown of the Food Network was doing a traveling food show going up the Mississippi. He started off on a bad note in New Orleans.

According to the New York Post, popular chef Mario Batali has been cut from the Food Network. It is rumoured Batali will be hosting a new food/travelling show on the PBS with Gwyneth Paltrow of all people (who also happens to be a hard core vegetarian).

In the future, there will be robots. We�ll travel around at amazing speeds in a giant network of tubes. There will be food in pill form. There will be travel agents who deal specifically with interstellar travel. There will be virtual reality and spatial manipulation of objects that you can see, but aren�t really there.

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.