Man, the bad thing about the Food Network is that Unilever advertises their pseudo-food there. So you watch, say, Tyler Florence make a pan of roasted artichokes with italian sausage and herbs, then in commercial you have some lady telling you to fry nuts in "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!"
Speaking of the Food Network, it looks like Alton Brown shut down Rants and Raves due to a flood of scary e-mail. The site is still up, but only one entry remains:
Some of you may have noticed that the “contact” button is gone from my web site and that my rant calling for refrigerator pics is gone. Here’s why: although many of you sent in some really nice pics and insightful, fun emails some of you decided to send vulgar, nasty, frightening messages and images. I always knew there was ugliness and meanness out there but you know what, I don’t have to give you a place to put it. So, the portal is closed and will remain so. If you harvested the address, don’t bother using it because it will simply dump your mail into oblivion.
I’m disappointed, upset, disillusioned, and upgrading my security system. To those who wanted to play nice, I sure am sorry but life’s just too short to drink poison.
He doesn't actually say what was said to freak him out, but it must have been bad to prompt that sort of a response. I'm sure a big food network star already has a great security system, with lots of lasers and Emeril seeking missiles. So how will he top that?
I hope he decides to continue posting once the new system is in place.