• CNN.com, Monday, May 9, 2011 2:16 PM

While running down the current menu of TV shows about eating and cooking, Breeanna Hare examines the reasons for food shows' continuing - and expanding - popularity. "If they're not entertaining us with standard reality-TV shenanigans, they're exploring a topic we can all dig into," she writes. Yet, even with networks ranging from VH1 to ABC cooking up new concepts like "Famous Food" and "The Chew," "there are only so many TV viewing hours that one should have within a day, and your typical fan can't possibly eat up all of this food programming."

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