Serious Eats
New 'Cupcake Wars' Show from Food Network?
The blog TV Tango thinks it has found evidence of an upcoming cupcake-themed show from the Food Network:
About 10 days ago, Food Network filed a trademark application to protect 'Cupcake Wars' for "a continuing program about food and cooking." I can't find any other details about the show and my requests to Food Network for more information went unanswered. Wouldn't it be awesome if Food Network and The Post teamed up to do a "Cupcake War" series with each episode focusing on a different region? Manhattan one week, Chicago the next, then LA, and Orange County and on and on.
Of course, just filing a trademark application doesn't guarantee that the Food Network will create or air the show, but it's some good intel on TV Tango's part.
In Other Cupcake News: Obama and Lincoln Mosaic
Zilly Rosen assembled an Obama-Lincoln cupcake mosaic on Friday at the Smithsonian. Cakewrecks was taking progress snaps from the streaming webcam the museum set up to webcast the assembly of more than 5,000 cupcakes. Thanks to everyone who sent us links to Cakewrecks and other coverage, like this story on NPR, which prompted HeartofGlass to remark, "Sure, Seurat invented pointillism with 'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'—but how did that taste?"