From Scratch: Inside the Food Network
by Salkin, Allen
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- Hardcover
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- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399159320
- ISBN 13
- 9780399159329
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Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The image provided is the actual book I'm offering for sale. No markings or damage to any pages. No sunning. No clips. Structure of the book (covers, binding, spine, hinges) is tight and free of damage. Page block is nice and square. Cut pages. Additional photos will be provided upon request to ensure the quality and integrity of your book purchase.
Synopsis
Allen Salkin shows how the sausage really gets made at the Food Network in From Scratch , a behind-the-scenes history liberally spiced with gossip and unsavory tidbits.” Entertainment Weekly A detailed look at the network from start-up phase to the present, with a generous lump of juicy stories about the network’s most polarizing figuresGuy Fieri, Bobby Flay, Anthony Bourdain and, of course, Paula Deen y’allheaped on top.” The Atlantic Wire Big personalities, high dramathe extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of the Food Network, now about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary: the business, media, and cultural juggernaut that changed the way America thinks about food. In October 1993, a tiny start-up called the Food Network debuted to little notice. Twenty years later, it is in 100 million homes, approaches a billion dollars a year in revenue, and features a galaxy of stars whose faces and names are as familiar to us as our own family’s. But what we don’t know about them, and the people behind them, could fill a book. Based upon extensive inside access, documents, and interviews with hundreds of executives, stars, and employees all up and down the ladder, Allen Salkin’s book is an exhilarating roller-coaster ride from chaos to conquest (and sometimes back). As Salkin takes us inside the conference rooms, studios, homes, restaurants, and after-hours meetings, we see a salty Julia Child lording it over the early network performers; a fragile Emeril Lagasse staggering from the sudden public shock of cancellation; a very green Rachael Ray nearly burning down the set on her first day; a torn Tyler Florence accepting the Applebee’s job he knows he can’t refuse, but with a chill running down his spine; a determined Bobby Flay reinventing himself once again to survive. Paula Deen, Tom Colicchio, Anthony Bourdain, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, Martha Stewart, Guy Fieri, Cat Cora: Salkin illuminates the people we thought we knew, and the ones we never knew about, in this irresistible story of the intersection between business, television, pop culture, foodand us.
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- Bookseller
- The Dusty Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0003944
- Title
- From Scratch: Inside the Food Network
- Author
- Salkin, Allen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color. Aud
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0399159320
- ISBN 13
- 9780399159329
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Food Network (Firm); General; History; History & Criticism; Non-Fiction; Performing Arts; Popular Culture; Social Science; Television; United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cooking and Cookery; Business; Economics; Non-fiction;
- Size
- Octavo
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