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In reply to the discussion: After the events with Paula Deen this week... Which food network star has upset you [View all]UTUSN
(77,718 posts)Actually, I don't watch cooking shows and after years of just catching a minute or two of Rachael RAY and finding her annoying, I have succumbed in the past few months just because of her guests, not the cooking.
But during DEEN week, the Emeril dude also beat feet to pick up on the "in moderation" meme, like he was covering his own tracks, throwing in the "in moderation" words in his spiel at every turn. Now it seems to me that the preponderance of the media chefs are guilty of the DEEN egregiousness.
I haven't read all of the threads, posted one of the first ones calling her a dangerous and greedy hypocrite, and I know she has some defenders, but to review: 1) Perhaps her early unhealthy cooking career might have been excused as just ignorance, 2) but she covered up her diagnosis for two or three years and 3) she is changing course plus partnering with a "medical" product to continue to profit.