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Variety on television seems to be constantly expanding these days. Of course, there are still a few basic categories of TV show that will never die out: crime dramas, family comedies, animated cartoons, etc. However, along with these classic genres, there are also plenty of new types of shows that are becoming popular each year, meaning that more people have more cable options. Among the most popular of these newer, expanding options, is food television, which has expanded in a way that not many people would have predicted. As it turns out, however, food TV is a big draw for a variety of audiences, and can provide everything from entertainment value to instruction. Essentially, three major types of food television shows have emerged: instructional, expository, and competitive.

Instructional food television shows tend to be very common among people with specific interests in cooking, and in learning new culinary techniques. In these shows, some sort of chef – sometimes a celebrity chef, sometimes a show host, and sometimes a host of different chefs with different talents – simply demonstrates different methods of gourmet food preparation. These shows can obviously be geared toward any specific sort of food, but essentially operate with the goal of demonstrating technique and showing viewers how to prepare amazing food.

Expository food shows are very different in that rather than showing you how to cook great food, they tend to show you how to find great food. These shows tend to be organized in different ways, and with different surface goals and priorities. However, from watching these shows, you can get an idea of some of the very best places in the country to find certain types of dishes. For example, an experienced chef or food critic host may show you where in New England to find the best seafood ingredients, or where to go in the South for top-of-the-line barbecue. This tends to be a lot of fun to watch for people who are simply fans of well-prepared food.

Finally, competitive food shows have emerged as probably the most popular sort of show within the genre. Basically, they are exactly what they sound like, and feature a number of different chefs competing in different cooking-related tasks. It tends to work like any normal competitive reality show, in that contestants are gradually eliminated based on performance, until a lucky winner earns some manner of prize. These shows tend to combine the entertainment value of prize-based competitive reality TV with the instructional nature of some other food shows, ultimately earning huge audiences nationwide.