We thank you for your fantastic food channel!!
I also test our dried spices, I have to keep them all in our glass canning jars...
Out here in the desert we have to do something, to keep all of our spices as fresh as possible.
Carol

the food network has really opened up new horizons for me and my youngest daughter.she is enrolled in her second yearof culinary education in high school and is aspiring to become a chef. thanks Mr. Alton Brown for leading the way! Your scientific, almost clinical way you introduce food would have gotten my attention in school but alas,its time for the younger folks to step up and show us what theyre made of. Kudos to Alton!!!!!

I was born and raised in New Orleans. I have New Orleans' Creole Sauces that allows one to cook like a New Orleans' Creole without being a New Orleans' Creole.

Thirty years ago, I called it "Cooking with Jazz". Now you can too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Creole Cooking at its BEST! www.ewcreolefood.com

I like using spices, but sometimes I don't know what kind of spices to use with my every day meats like chicken,pork,turkey or beef. Can you please give some names of spices I can use with these types of meats.

Thank you, elnora poole

Alton Brown has inspired me in many ways. To follow a recipe is one thing but to understand why, I think, is more important than all the cookbooks in the world combined. Many thanks for the guidance and inspiration.
P.S. Now my wife watched the food network too (for a first generation German that's something).

I AM SO HAPPY FOR PAULA DEAN AND HER FAMILY.SHE DESERVES THE BEST OF LIFE AND SHE LOOKS SO HAPPY.SHE HAS WORKED SO HARD ALL HER LIFE AND IT IS JUST WONDERFUL WATCHING PAULA AND HER FAMILY.I COULD JUST WATCH HER COOKING SHOWS EVEN WHEN THEY ARE A REPEAT.THERE IS SOMETHING NEW TO LEARN EVERYTIME.I WISH HER CONTINUED HEALTH,HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT FOREVER.

A LOYAL FAN

Food Network is the staple viewing pleasure in my home second only to Sunday afternoon Baseball. I love everything about the networks desire to make even the best Chef a-little-bit-better!
While we have all worked hard and paid our dues their is never enough credit givin to the support staff by which an individuals fame is achived.
My request... tell the public about your budding stars, the people behind the scenes.
Keep up the good work!
And give "A.B." anything he wants.

Chef Paul

I have become a much better cook since I started watching the Food Network. I used to watch the old cooking shows for years and still have a fondness for many of those great chefs. I have learned so much in particular from Alton Brown, Paula Dean, Rachel Ray, Emerill, Tyler. You take the mystery out of how to cook. Recently at a pot luck at work I brought a recipe from Paula Dean, a fruit tart, and when everyone found out they all had to have some. Alton, my son will only watch your cooking show. He's the science guy and my fiance Mark likes you the best too. I loved your bike buy the way, great show this past summer, except when you fell. Do some more quick shows like that it was very appealing. Thanks to all the staff in the background. I know it's a lot of work to make it all happen. I'd like to see Sancho a bit more often. Ileana from Michigan

I enjoy the Food Net Work , I've learned so many ,many techniques . developed so many skills and recipes . I have every cook book you could imagine . Emril ,Paula ,Alton , I love the way Alton Brown breaks everything down to a science. Rachel Ray takes me on a trip with her every time she travels to and fro , I learned to communicate with the locals and dine on 40 dollars a day.Thanks everyone @ Food Network .

I discovered Food Network by chance in 2002/2003, thanks to my ex-husband's new landlord who had thoughtfully programmed it into the satellite menu he was renting to him after a devastating stroke my ex had had a few months before moving into that apt. I'd moved in to help, because the stroke had affected his swallowing so badly that he had to be fed through a tube in his stomach.

But, as a writer and artist, he needed much more than tube feed for nourishment: he had an almost insatiable thirst for beauty, humor, excitement, color, & stimulation of the senses. Food Network provided all that, and more...this is my belated thank you. One reason he loved the Food Network so much was that it gave him a chance to EAT in his mind, but he loved it for all sorts of other reasons too. England's Jamie Oliver could made him laugh out loud, Canada's Christine Cushing with her husky voice and gorgeous sweaters made him feel like a man, and Emeril Lagasse's "BAM!" and "Kick it up another notch!" gave him such a charge that I made a BAM! sign to hang on his bedroom wall. His relatives thought I was nuts, but he appreciated it. And Martin Yan could make him stand up and cheer even on the lowest days. Of which there were many.

Sad to say, in our married years I was a very uninspired cook, using a tiny stove in pretty countryside I resented. It wasn't until years after our divorce, in big cities in Canada, that I came to appreciate the joy of cooking.. because of food festivals and many chefs I interviewed for my radio show in Canada. And now, miles away from those days, I'm as hooked on Food Network as my ex was! I deeply appreciate Bobby Flay taking me into New York's exotic grocery stores; Paula Deen and her lovely Michael make me cry because they love each other so much; Ms. de Laurentis brings me back to the European style of life that I love so much; Iron Chef America reminds me that a good competition involves a lot of cooperation on each opposing team; and Tyler Florence makes me wish I'd had teachers like him in my youth. I learn a lot from Tyler. Michael Chiarello makes me wish I'd grown up in California's wine country, and continually inspires me to think organic, and be calm.

I print out recipes constantly, (driving the new man in my life crazy :-)) and I now cook quite enthusiastically, trying spices and flavours that I'd never even heard of before.

So, this is a triple thank you, beloved Food Network...one from my daughter's dad; one from a very grateful ME; and one from the new man in my life, who as a working dad used to make crockpot meals for some of his kids after his marriage floundered and the family divided, but who, now that they're grown with families of their own, is gaining confidence in his own abilities as a very good cook...thanks to Food Network!

I esp. love Bobby Flay. His recipes are so ...so... delicious! He is interested in southern cooking as well as southwestern. BOTH favorites of mine. And Mario teaches you so much!
Love them both!