food network: please stop making your female tv cooks, especially the barefoot contessa and giada de lalalawhatever, make sit down meals where they have to eat with their husbands. it is weird, and painful, and ugh. for all i know, the barefoot contessa likes to do this, because as charles and tommy and i have long speculated, her marriage has gone down the crapper and she keeps trying to lure her husband back in with food and prove to the world that they are rilly in luv. but it does not work! you could take the two most in love people in the world, sit them down with some delicious food, yell action, and all you'd get is 60 unnatural, awkward seconds of the woman laughing too hard at unfunny things her tv-shy husband burbles up, and lots of awkward silences, and the husband unconvincingly mmm-ing really hard. just make it stop.