This is interesting. Food2, a new online arm of the Food Network empire, is on the march.

One of the things I’ve been waiting for is a (for now) online-only show called Kitchen Conspirators, which basically takes the supper club idea and gives it the reality-TV treatment.

I think Tamara and I might’ve even put our names in to be the “underground chefs” on this show–I was out of the country last summer when there was some back-and-forth with the Food Network.

So it makes it doubly funny to watch some of the episodes and sort of see my experience reflected in it. It’s what I imagine having your life adapted into a movie must be like. There’s more mainstream music; there’s a narrative arc that you never quite noticed at the time; there are wacky montages.

But let’s just say that after a little brainstorming session, I do not turn to Tamara and propose, “Let’s go to band practice and rip out those Scorpions covers.”

(To be fair, it looks like the mustachioed guy barely managed to say that with a straight face either. Er. I mean, I hope? I get lost in the layers of hipster irony.)

I guess FN is holding out the option of putting this on TV, because it’s still edited for a 30-minute time slot (although broken into smaller “episodes” for the web). I’d really like to see a more self-contained, short version. And I’d also like to see the party! That’s a weird let-down at the end…and that’s coming from someone who generally likes planning the parties much more than the parties themselves.

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