Ray on Ray
Have a look at what Krishnendu Ray has to say about food TV (just the most recent comments in his substantial body of work on the subject) in this Salon interview, “How food television is changing America.” I am especially interested in comments like this: “What’s interesting to me is that these [competition-style shows] have become very established genres and they’ve become very predictable and tedious. ….So much of American food entertainment is derived from ["Iron Chef"]. To find something different we need to look to other countries — like Indian TV, or South Korean TV. Centers of empires do not produce cutting-edge genres and formats, margins do.” At the Roger Smith Food Writers Conference that I’ve been going on about, he spoke more in depth about this concept. You can watch the panel here.
Clever, smart, girl-next-door
