Quotes from Allen Salkin

What Applebee's was proposing was like Rick Bayless's endorsement of a line of chicken sandwiches for Burger King

Inspired first by the need to keep the cameramen awake, Emeril started yelling as he added ingredients to dishes—"Bam!

It took nearly a year for Food Network to produce a show starring Justin, Rebel Eats, a one-off budget road trip program. No future episodes were announced.

The Iron Chef America producers would reveal to all the competitors three possibilities for the secret ingredient twenty-four hours before contests were shot.

Since the late 1980s and early 1990s hits, she and Harry had stumbled with unmemorable shows such as Women of the House and Hearts Afire.

The dog and the butler could go, but the rest had serious potential.

David did not have any show ideas about diners, but he knew never to say no while pitching a television executive. "Sure," he extemporized, dreaming up a name on the spot. "I have Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

A guest chef would come in and shoot five shows in two days. Most had no TV training and little on-camera experience. They were thrown onto the air and did their shows live to tape, no stopping allowed for any reason, even small fires or bleeding.

To Robin's recollection, one of the first shots that went out on the Television Food Network was of rats scurrying across a black floor.

Gene was working on a new show called Star Trek. On a napkin, he drew for Alton, wide-eyed, a picture of the starship called Enterprise.