An interesting article by Bill Buford for The New Yorker:
Notes of a Gastronome
TV Dinners
The rise of food television by Bill Buford
9/25/06
"The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I’d been making toast. "First, we cut our bread,' I whispered "Do you know why?" I stopped what I was doing and looked up. "Let me tell you why." It was eight-thirty. It was also Hour 25 of a seventy-two-hour commitment I’d made to watch continuous food television (sleeping only when the shows began repeating at midnight)..."
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