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@g30g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, says...
> If this has been mentioned, excuse my duplication: Mario was a guest
> on Martha's show this week, and explained (in answer to her question)
> that he was still going to be on ICA (he has a 17-competition winning
> streak going), but that the Food Network had decided that his Molto
> Mario didn't fit in with their stated desire to appeal to more of a
> mass market. He said he wasn't mad at them or anything.
>
> He is doing a series where he and Gwyneth (?? - daughter or wife?) are
> traveling and eating their way through Spain, and it will air on PBS
> next fall. He said he was also "talking to" the Travel Channel.
>
> N.
>

Food Network is dead to me. They've replaced all the chefs with pretty
faces that don't know jack about the dish they're making, and most of it
is just re-hashed off the shelf stuff.