UNITED STATES—I was stunned, that is the best way to explain my reaction to discovering the Food Network series “The Kitchen” was being cancelled after 10 years on the network. The news was dropped on Monday, October 20 and it was a gut punch. I had been watching the series since its inception, and it was one of the very rare series that gave ACTUAL cooking instruction.

You had chefs on the series who knew what they were talking about in Iron Chefs Geoffrey Zakarian and Alex Gurnaschelli. Then you had entertaining personalities with Sunny Anderson, Jeff Mauro and Katie Lee Biegel. I immediately went to Reddit because I wanted to see what fans of the channel were thinking. The top response: “awe” and “shock.” However, what was worse was this feeling that this could be the end of the networ

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