Travel Channel’s Man vs Food

Do you really want your last words to be I’ll have another pork chop please?-Coach to Luther The Travel Channel has a number of food related travel shows-mostly of the I’m-not-sure-I’d-eat-that type. Andrew Zimmern and Anthony Bourdain go to exotic places and eat odd foods, which they seem to truly enjoy. These are fun shows to watch for the most part, but the odds of my finding my way to some remote part of the world to try some bizarre food is pretty slim. Not that I would really want to eat most of the stuff they eat. Man vs…

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The Travel Channel Academy

The Travel Channel Academy, from what I have seen on the commercials, is a school where you go to learn the ins and outs of making travel shows. The tag line is Learn, Shoot, Earn-implying that this is the pathway to fame and fortune as one of the perpetually cheerful hosts of a travel show. Which kind of sounds like my kind of thing. If your work meets Travel Channel standards and we elect to use it, we will pay you for it. Sounds like a pretty big ‘if’-but then they are training you, so you should be able to…

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