There is a new cable channel coming: the Cooking Channel.  It is from The Food Network, but it is designed to be edgier, yet more “low key.”  More about ordinary people cooking, and the origins of foods they say.

The Food Channel has been a big hit with stars like (my friend) Sara Moulton, Emerill, Rachael Ray and Jamie Oliver.  But you won’t find them on the new Cooking Channel.

Instead, you’ll find a group of Canadian guys who build strange food machines, like a Taco vending machine.  That show is titled “Jammers.”

Another, “Unique Eats” is filmed at a Brooklyn, New York hot dog restaurant, focusing on heirloom baked beans with ham hocks – like mom or grandma used to bake before we just opened cans.

Quoting an article in the New York Times by Allen Salkin, Bruce Seidel, the senior vice president for programming and production for the Cooking Channel said “the feel and style we’re going for is a little grittier, a little edgier, a little hipper.”

Prepare to be hipper in the kitchen May 31st when the Cooking Channel premieres.