Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring (episodic) programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns roughly two thirds of the network, and Tribune Company owns the rest.

The network is seen in more than ninety million households. In addition to New York City, it has offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Jersey City, and Knoxville, Tennessee.

Food Network has launched internationally first in the UK on November 9, 2009 and in Asia from early 2010.

Food Network was founded on November 23, 1993 as TV Food Network; its legal name is still Television Food Network, G.P. Within a few years, the network had shortened its on-air brand name. Joe Langhan, now an executive producer with the Wine Network created the concept for Food Network in 1991 while working at The Providence Journal.

Food Network is owned by Scripps Networks Interactive, a spin-off of E. W. Scripps Company. In 1997, Scripps acquired the Food Network from the A. H. Belo Corp. Corporation (in exchange for broadcast stations KENS-AM/TV (KENS-TV) in San Antonio, Texas), which had acquired the network through a takeover of The Providence Journal Company earlier that year.