The Travel Channel had success with their 'Food Paradise' series, '10 Best Places to Pig Out' and those types of specials, so they knew there was a market for comfort food and wanted to develop a show around it.
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Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don&... HUGH JACKMAN I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX If you want government food, go to the supermarket and buy government food. But for those who want t... JOEL SALATIN Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food. MICHAEL MINA From Julia Child to 'The Galloping Gourmet' and the Food Channel and Cooking Channel, our fa... CHUCK NORRIS I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they'r... CECILY STRONG There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable. DYLAN LAUREN 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from M... BOBBY FLAY The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just th... CALVIN TRILLIN You can't go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It's also about ease. Some cook to i... AL ROKER When I auditioned for 'Jessie,' I knew that Disney Channel basically will do 100 episodes of... KEVIN CHAMBERLIN I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'E... JACQUES PEPIN I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer... NIKKI REED For 'The Bestseller'... there was hardly any research, but I had to give each person a quirk... RAVI SUBRAMANIAN I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a m... DANA GOODYEAR '10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to... BO DEREK There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Ada... WEN JIABAO I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That's a lot of money, and so, man, t... STEVEN ADAMS I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conv... ANTHONY BOURDAIN I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food ... JIM PARRACK It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joi... ALEX KAPRANOS If I'm out of town and I'm in a situation where I have to be creative, it has to be hot dogs... ESTER DEAN About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to mysel... BOBBY FLAY People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy. RENE REDZEPI I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just ... HOLLY MADISON When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for n... SANDRA LEE I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for '... BEN DANIELS Kids love food. It's about putting materials out there that get kids thinking about food - to ge... GUY FIERI I love Rome for their calzones and New York City for the variety of quality eateries, but I absolute... PAUL HOLLYWOOD There's food and supplements that you can take legally that will better your body and help you s... JAKE ARRIETA Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxie... VANESSA CARLTON 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they ... ADAM PALLY I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's... DANIEL BOULUD Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers ha... BRIDGET HALL You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket scie... MICHAEL POLLAN I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, an... MARCUS SAMUELSSON I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those sto... DAVID SELBY I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There ... ELMORE LEONARD I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the ... TOM COLICCHIO Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's rele... BRETT HOEBEL I know a lot of Disney Channel stars. I hang out with Debbie Ryan. Me and Ryan Newman hang out a lot... BRADLEY STEVEN PERRY I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there'... ADAM ANT I don't really eat a lot of fast food, ever, but if I had to eat at one fast food restaurant, it... DAVID HENRIE I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But ... HARRY CONNICK, JR. They know food and wine. And they said we had some of the best products there. For them to say that ... CAROL COHEE When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of ... RACHAEL RAY 'A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was... WARREN LITTLEFIELD I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in cr... ALI LIEBEGOTT As we landed, we knew we were in the right spot because there was literally a mountain of dog food. ... BRENT HUDSPETH I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for th... MITCH HEDBERG I don't do much cooking because it's impossible when you travel so much. You go grocery shop... WINNIE HARLOW If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where t... MARK MOBIUS Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' i... VALERIE BERTINELLI I never knew I would go this far, but I was told by people it wouldn't happen, and now I own fou... GUY FIERI I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN I love collard greens and sweet potatoes. But like, traveling, I'm always just looking for that ... NENEH CHERRY I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; ... R. L. STINE I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy... COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying... BEN SILBERMANN I remember the 'Scary Movie' series coming out for sure, and I was a big fan of those. NICO TORTORELLA It's relatively easy to set up a tech company, join an accelerator, and progress down a pathway ... KIMBAL MUSK In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time t... YUJI HORII Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounde... PADMA LAKSHMI I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself. AARTI SEQUEIRA A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig ... JOEL SALATIN I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying t... RICHARD SIMMONS Super polished signage is not always a good sign. I'm always looking for places that you have to... ADAM RICHMAN Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it... MARCUS SAMUELSSON People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties ... ELLEN DEGENERES It's always this grand search in the industry to find good material. Whenever there is good mate... LEONARDO DICAPRIO From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a ric... HOMARO CANTU Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been ... TRISTRAM STUART Series Two of 'The Paradise' is meaty and thoroughly entertaining... and yeah, you're in... BEN DANIELS I had to take a big risk by writing my young adult book series 'The A Circuit' and putting m... GEORGINA BLOOMBERG There's a reason that I have confidence out there, and it's about how I prepare for games an... STEPHEN CURRY People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask the... MICHAEL SYMON I love food. I'm a huge food addict. I think in my past life I was a pig or something like that,... JUSTIN LEE A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's a... ALICE WATERS Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and the... ADAM MCKAY We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's bes... STERLING K. BROWN Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure t... DENISE MORRISON We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace,... CHRIS DEWOLFE I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you... MARIO BATALI On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it w... JEFF KINNEY All the time people ask me, like, 'Oh my God, what did you do to get ready for the red carpet?... ASHLEY TISDALE I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. T... DARBY STANCHFIELD I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there ... SONIA SOTOMAYOR I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES
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ADAM BRODY Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls bef... ADAM BRODY My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically. ADAM BRODY I like to always have humour in whatever I do. ADAM BRODY I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are... ADAM BRODY I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain ag... ADAM BRODY It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I trul... ADAM BRODY It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your be... ADAM BRODY Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy. ADAM BRODY I'm a fake intellectual. ADAM BRODY I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surpris... ADAM BRODY I wish I came from a more pure place. 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ADAM ANT I'm blind without my glasses. ADAM ANT Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and... ADAM ANT Achievement results from work realizing ambition. ADAM ANT Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situati... ADAM PETTY I have patterned myself after my father and God. ADAM PETTY They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there. ADAM PETTY It's all about racing on the track. ADAM PETTY I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it. ADAM PEATY The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are che... ADAM PEATY I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression. ADAM PEATY