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It shouldn't surprise anyone to know that we watch food shows. And so we'd be remiss if we didn't mention a new show on the Fine Living network featuring the inimitable Martha Stewart. Well, "featuring" is a bit of a stretch: the show, as the New York Times reports, will be more like a spin on Mystery Science Theater 3000, starring Stewart's daughter Alexis and Jennifer Koppelman Hutt, whose father, Charles Koppelman, is the chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Dubbed Whatever, Martha!, the show will poke fun at Stewart's "clothes, fastidiousness, and habit of mixing sexual innuendo with her household hints." We kind of thought Ana Gasteyer did that back in the 90s, but hey, we don't have a problem with a fresh approach.

This Phillyist was bummed when hometown actor, improviser and restaurateur Adam Gertler lost The Next Food Network Star to Camden’s Aaron McCargo, Jr. Aaron is a great cook and deserved to win, but you always root for the home team (unless you work in City Hall). Turns out when Adam lost, he really won. While he didn’t get a six-episode try-out of his own cooking show like Aaron did with Big Daddy’s House, he did get a 13-episode series gig as the host of Food Network’s newest show, Will Work for Food, a Dirty Jobs-esque show centered around the food industry. According to Philly.com, Adam will be profiling such jobs as potato chip inspector, shark feeder and dog-food taste-tester. It’s the perfect job for Adam who is incredibly watchable, very funny and dammit, deserved to win something for serenading Martha Stewart. Will Work for Food premieres Sept 30th at 9:30PM on The Food Network.

Head on down to Mew Gallery tomorrow night to help them welcome Confections: Photography, an exhibition by Amy Stevens. Seems Ms. Stevens has an obsession with cake imagery and a fetish for color; while the latter is certainly an asset to most any artist, those of us with a baking problem can certainly see the artistic benefit of the former. The project started as a celebration for her 30th birthday; the idea was she'd bake thirty cakes and photograph them. She didn't quite make it to the goal by b-day, but the early process (including a kit from Martha Stewart) helped her rebel against the idea of food "perfection," and allowed her to be "as grotesque and amazing as possible." The current exhibit is the result, with the creations matched to often outrageous fabrics and backgrounds.

...Wastes of Space: What took them so long to realize that she was talentless? (Via The Superficial.)

...Dirty Little Secrets: Nothing surprising about this list. (Via What Would Tyler Durden Do?)

...Philadelphia Recognition: Jodie Foster, Phillyist's graduation speaker, actually gave quite a good speech, and what you can't hear in the clip is all the Penn grads singing along with her. Superficial, you disappoint us. (Via The Superficial)

Some of us are not exactly Martha Stewart in the kitchen. There's help for those that want a nice, traditional Thanksgiving dinner at home, but don't want reach into a turkey's ass to nab the goody bag of extra parts.

" alt="The Book and the Cook Cafe Society" width="234" height="182" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="0">Former editorial director for food and entertaining at Martha Stewart Living and founding Food Editor of “Martha Stewart Living” Susan Spungen is certainly a local girl who made good. Her new book “Recipes: A Collection for the Modern Cook” presents a collection of easy recipes for home cooks represented in her classic, simple style just in time for holiday entertaining!This Thursday,at 6:30,she will be upstairs at DiBruno (1730 Chestnut) in the Kitchenaid® Theatre as part of the Book and the Cook’s Caffe Society Program.The series educates and exposes culinary enthusiasts to quality products, new recipes and techniques as well as the opportunity to meet many diverse personalities of the food world. The $55 ticket includes meeting the Chef, the demo, a multi course meal, wine, bottled water , coffee and a personally autographed book.Phillyist readers can get two tickets for the price of one if this blog post is mentioned.