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Fresh off his departure from the Food Network and the sale of most his empire to Martha Stewart Omnimedia, the Discovery Channel has announced that Emeril Lagasse has signed on to host a new cooking show called Emeril Green. This show will air on their Planet Green network.

The show will be set in Whole Foods Markets and will feature organic, free range and natural foods. According to the post at Treehugger, the show will feature a revolving cast of other cooks, farmers and food experts. I am really looking forward to seeing what Emeril can do with this format. We need more food television that focuses on environmentally friendly ways of growing and raising.

[via Ecorazzi and Treehugger]

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Today's Washington Post features a pretty interesting piece about food-related television shows in Japan. Apparently food television takes up 35-40 percent of all domestic programming there. Of course, Iron Chef is usually the first thing that springs to most of our minds. But, according to the WaPo piece, the grandeur and zeal that many of us associate with Iron Chef is commonplace on many food-related shows. Apparently gratuitous food shots (food porn, if you will) are just as popular over there as they are here, perhaps more so. On the show Which Dish?, one commentator responded to a shot of sizzling salmon fat with "I have never seen such a beautiful thing before," says the Post. The hosts of that show are pictured here.

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