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Food Network is a cable network whose main topic is [[Exactly What It Says
FN rose to fame in the late 1990s, after picking up Emeril Lagasse's show ''Essence Of Emeril'' and its hit follow-on ''Emeril Live''; he was the face of the network for many years until [[Rachael Ray]] and ''30-Minute Meals'' came along. Also the network that was willing to take a chance on [[Good Eats|a certain offbeat cooking-science show]] back in 1999, as well as introducing most of the USA to ''[[Iron Chef]]'', a show whose exposure had been limited mainly to the Bay Area before then.
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* ''[[Ace of Cakes]]''
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* ''[[Chopped]]''
* ''[[Cupcake Wars]]''
* ''[[Diners, Drive
* ''[[Dinner Impossible]]''
* [[Giada De Laurentiis]]
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* ''[[The Next Food Network Star]]''
* [[Rachael Ray]]
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* [[Adored
** Episodes of ''30 Minute Meals'' and ''40 Dollars A Day'' were on constant repeat shortly before [[Rachael Ray]] got her own talk show.
** Once the network discovered Guy Fieri may have a chance among the much-coveted young male [[Demographic]], they began to run his shows constantly. If you tune in to Food Network at any given time these days, chances are that they're showing ''Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives,'' or are about to start showing it within an hour.
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* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Robert Irvine, mainly in ''Restaurant: Impossible'' where he often ends up delivering [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to various people with failing restaurants. The fact that he used to be in the British Navy, and in fact got his start as a chef there, certainly helps.
* [[Fag Hag]]: Ina Garten. Her parties are attended almost entirely by her gay friends.
* [[Fan Service
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Bobby Flay.
* [[Fighting Irish]]: Again, Bobby Flay. Besides having a rather feisty and spirited personality, he also says that when he was a teenager he frequently got into fights and hung out with a group of other tough guys before getting involved in the food industry and turning his life around.
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** [[Fetish Fuel|Disturbingly close to literal porn]] with some of Giada's and Rachel's quasi-orgasmic tasting shots.
** ''Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives'', with some of the most surreal junkfood you'll ever see.
** ''The Best Thing I Ever Ate'', which features Food Network personalities and colleagues rhapsodizing about [[Exactly What It Says
** ''Emeril Live'' [[Catch Phrase|took this up a notch]] this for 60 minute food "live sex show", featuring "ohh"s and "ah"s from the audience. [[Egregious|Egregiously]] so when he added a great deal of butter or garlic and the camera cut to a closeup of someone reacting in the audience..
** Alex Guarnaschelli takes it to an even more disturbing level. Virtually every sentence she speaks describing food is practically dripping with a sensuous tone of voice, and [[Purple Prose|such admiring physical descriptions of the food]] that she makes it sound like it's a person that she wants to date, rather than a piece of food. Her orgasmic facial expressions when describing the food just make it worse.
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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: [[Giada De Laurentiis]], Aida Mollenkamp, [[Rachael Ray]], and, [[Mr. Fanservice|gender-flipped]], [[Dinner Impossible|Robert Irvine]]. And, as of her second season, apparently Claire Robinson as well.
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Ever heard Rachael's voice?
** During the ICA battle where Flay and Giada went up against Rachael and Batali, [[Fark]] [[In Joke|warned the]] [[Memetic Mutation|kitten population]] [[A Date
* [[Pretty Fly for
* [[Purple Prose]]: ''The Best Thing I Ever Ate'' basically encourages all the FN stars to go on and use [[Purple Prose]] to describe various dishes. Alex Guarnaschelli is ''by far'' the most egregious though, both there and on her own show as well.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Gina Neely. Stereotypes? You're soaking in it.
* [[Science Show]]: ''[[Good Eats]]'', ''Food Detectives'', and ''Ask Aida''.
* [[Screwed
* [[Ship Tease]] / [[Foe Yay]]:
** Alton and W on ''[[Good Eats]]''. Despite the former being, y'know, ''married''.
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