PaulaDeenGate Wire

Here's New York Post critic Steve Cuozzo on Paula Deen and the Food Network: "Although the network's acting like she's an aberration — a blemish on its image as home to many great, non-racist chefs — Deen personifies, at its worst, the culinary cult of personality that the channel did more than anything else to create... Rock-star chefdom made our culinary scene into a trashy, traveling carnival." [NYP]