The Cooking Channel

• Food Network's latest series follows ice sculpturists. — Food Network
• Local and sustainable goes to the next level with farm-to-table-to-closet. — New York Post
• Were food prices behind the unrest in Egypt? — Globe and Mail
• Bordeaux isn't just for moneybags. — Chow
• Foie gras rochers and such: inside the Modernist Cuisine's Cooking Lab. — Serious Eats
• Grant Achatz's new bar, Aviary, will offer 18 different kinds of ice. — Eater CHI
• What will be New York's next big food trend? — PopSugar New York
• Here's a first look at Jamie's Food Escapes on The Cooking Channel. — Grub Street NY

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Now that warm weather's arrived, it's finally time for bikini season. But Summer also means road trips, state fairs, ribs, and lots of ice cream. So what's a girl to do?

I asked cookbook author Ellie Krieger, host of the Food Network show Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger, how she manages to make sumptuous yet healthful food during grilling season. Hear what she has to say after the jump.

The Food Network will soon be getting a little sister. Yesterday, Scripps Networks Interactive announced it plans to launch another culinary channel next year to replace lifestyle channel Fine Living, or FLN. The new network, to be called the Cooking Channel, will debut in the Fall of 2010.

A third of FLN's programming is already food-related, but according to a release, the new channel will become a 24-hour network focusing on "food information and instructional cooking programming," as well as "food origins, culture, and history."

Scripps, which owns Food Network, Fine Living, HGTV, and DIY networks, certainly seems to be focusing more on food. At the beginning of this week, it publicized plans to expand Food Network to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. What do you think of the corporation's newest venture? Does it sound redundant — or do you think it will be successful?