Michelle Rejwan

Amidst the flurry of the green-market-centric food craze, and Spec Food’s obsession with the West Village, comes Market Table.

"Nine countries, four continents, 35 thousand miles," said Phil Keoghan, the host of CBS's reality competition series The Amazing Race, in the final episode of the program's first season in 2001, just before he announced the winners of a race around the world.

It's the same old story: girl dumps girl, dumped girl meets straight boy, straight boy dumps straight girl, straight girl meets dumped girl.