Careful cooking technique became something where the network was now looking for personalities who could appeal to people like their comforting next door neighbor, maybe paula deen, back then a sort of wacky grandmother. rachael ray. so the network made a very conscious decision to provide comfort food and something that would soothe you and contribute to the national mood for cocooning. >> you wrote about paula deen's first scandal when she was hiding her diabetes, then signed a deal to shill for a diabetes drug, then admitted she used the "n" word that ended her deal with the food network. w...