Wednesday, December 09, 2009

What Ever Happened to Cupcake Stud?


Once upon a time, the food network was about food, and not it's manufactured "stars". Back in the day Emeril, Nigella and the rest actually made shows that were aspirational; as much as I enjoy Ina Garten it's not 1986 anymore and frankly the deep-fried cuisine of some of the newer people make me want to live on psyllium husk smoothies forever.

But for about 10 minutes there was a guy that had me and several of my friends all a-twitter. His name is Warren Brown and he makes cakes. He's a lawyer (which caused at least one female friend of mine to pant "he can bake AND litigate?" and one to name him "cupcake Stud") and had his show "Sugar Rush" on Food Network which didn't last nearly long enough. I saw him once at the now defunct Maple Drive restaurant and he was seriously tall. Sorry ladies, he's married.



Photo: Wall Street Journal

1 comment:

pitbull friend said...

Tom, sweetie. You deserve one.

It does seem that a tremendous number of ex-lawyers become professional foodies. I'm thinking it's oral fixation - got to be either talking or eating?