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Iron Chef USA debuts Friday
devinoni writes "Yes, the long awaited American version of Iron Chef is coming. As reported on Slashdot, William Shatner will be hosting it on UPN 9pm (8 central) on Friday. The 4 Iron Chefs are: Todd English, Iron Chef American; Jean Francois Meteigner, Iron Chef French; Alessandro Stratta, Iron Chef Italian; and Roy Yamaguchi is Iron Chef Asian. Check out UPN's site (flash required) for more info." CD: The SF Chronicle review wasn't all that enthusiastic about this, so heads up, foodies.
I'm kind of surprised they didn't get Bobby Flay to be one of the Iron Chefs. He had 2 appearances on the original Japanese show against Iron Chef Japanese Masaharu Morimoto (one)(two), one of which was a bit controversial as Bobby was almost electrocuted during the battle and then at the end Masaharu claimed that Flay was not a true chef since a true chef wouldn't stand on his cutting board.
I wonder if Shatner will dress like Liberace to keep with the spirit of Chairman Kaga?
it's not going to stop until you wise up, no it's not going to stop. so just give up.
Guess it wasn't news til one of the COOL people posted it...
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2001-11-08 17:14:05 Iron Chef USA!!!!!!! (articles,tv) (rejected)
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How the hell do those chefs get anything done in such a short period of time (1Hr). They supposedly don't even know what the "secret" ingredient is before the show, although they immediately seem to know what their dishes are going to be and have special ingredients that they have brought with them to the show (certain type of flour, oil, spices etc ...) that are key to the dishes that they didn't know they were going to make, so that seems a little fishy. But how the hell can they possibly get 5 gourmet dishes done in such a short period including masterful presentation. I can't seem to heat a can of soup in 1Hr and these guys are cooking lamb, making ice cream, making pasta from scratch, etc... . Just 1 dish would take me 2 hrs and they pull off 5 in half the time and they seem to have at least 5 servings, all perfectly arranged with garnish, sauces, real art works. I have trouble keeping the peas from rolling off the plate and they are creating masterpieces!!! The show does hide the fact that they have 3 or 4 helpers but still how the hell can they get that much done in 1 hr???? I realize that these guys are professional chefs and this is an every night sort of thing for them, but I still find this amazing and they never seem to accidentally added too much salt or overcooked something or made a bad guess in creating a new dish. Again I understand that they have much more experience than me and they probably couldn't write code to save thier lives, but it still blows my mind what they do. I do make one hell of a PB&J, but beyond that they got me beat by a mile (light year).
Depending on how you define "Asian", you could end up including the Pacific Rim and India, as well as China, Korea, Thailand, etc.
My guess "Iron Chef Asian" will mainly prepare Chinese (American Chinese, that is) style food, since that's what most Americans recognize as "Asian." (I mean, it wasn't until a few years ago that my mom experienced Japanese food for the first time...and was surprised it wasn't "Chop Suey".)
Oh well...could be worse...they could have named him "Iron Chef Ethnic."
William Shatner's little speech at the end reminded me of Jerry Springer's Final Thoughts at the end of each episode.
Reality has a liberal bias
They obviously went for camp. I mean, the the Idea of "American cuisine" has only begun to be specable in recent years.
There is, for example. this guy, who claims to be Iron Chef Kentucky:
http://jeffholland.tripod.com/food.html
Worth checking out on his own. - - Some of the recipes are truly scary.
Kentucky Bourbon Deviled Crab
Bacon-Burger-Fried Okra
Chocolate Steak
Survival Biscuit Casserole
Bubblegum Sauce
and there's more!
And I wonder if the chairman in the original Iron Chef was the Japanes equivalent of William Shantner from an earlier Japanese TV show
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
That show was the funniest thing I have seen in months (mind you, I don't get you much, and I used to watch the Japanese version on FoodTV religiously), but the American twist on this Japanese crackpipe had me rolling on the floor during the opening credits. The other interesting thing I noticed about the show was the amazing ego battle between the two competitors. They threw in these preshow interviews and clips of the chefs and these guys were real jerk-offs. It was the funniest thing to watch them puff up thier heads and try to cook at the same time. Plus the announcers were complete joe-sixpack morons (at least one of them kept quipping with things like "I sure to love me some crab legs"). I couldn't stop watching until the end and I actually felt like these two buffoons were serious about this competition. And then there was Shatner, the man, the myth, the legend. He has really mellowed since his hissy fits about being typecast in sci-fi for the rest of his career, and only being famous for his role as the Kirkster. His interview on Conan O'Brian earlier this week was one of the funniest displays of someone purposely trying to make as big a fool of himself as possible and succeeding better than anyone. He does not take himself seriously anymore. Someone must have slipped him some SOMA or something because he has become one of the coolest Hollywoods personalities out there. I sure hope this gets through at least one season so I can record them all on my Tivo and rip them to DVD. Man, talk about classic comedy.
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