Iron Chef America!
Via blogcritics, I see that Alton Brown, my favorite celebrity chef-type-person will be part of a series of "Iron Chef America" specials filming soon to air on the Food Network.
SWEET.
Do be aware that this new version of Iron Chef is the real deal, including Masaharu Morimoto and Hiroyuki Sakai from the original series versus such American high-profile chefs as Bobby Flay (winner of the infamous Spiny Lobster battle), Wolfgang Puck, and Mario Batali. As such, it has NOTHING to do with the disastrous UPN version of Iron Chef which featured second-rank celeb chefs like Todd English (nothing wrong with his food... he's just no Chen Kenichi) and William Shatner as the Chairman.
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But ... but ... but he'll
But ... but ... but he'll only do the commentary. I would have loved to see what tools he would bring to the kitchen. He would blow Morimoto's blow torch away with some really cool device. Or they could have done "Scrap Iron Chef" for real.
That would have been AWESOME.
That would have been AWESOME. Alton Brown can do things to a steak with a hairdryer that I never thought possible.
Well, it's probably fine that Alton won't be cooking: he's no match for Wolfgang Puck's Austrian refinement, Mario Batali's elemental and instinctive grasp of good flavors, or Bobby Flay's talent for audacious food and relentless self-promotion.
Alton will make a fine color commentator, and I'm just glad the Food Network might be doing it right.
He could get his brother, B.A
He could get his brother, B.A., to rough up the competition.
BTW, I am glad the the Food Network is putting him up front. In the early years I thought that they were not fond of his show.
ugh. the pale American
ugh. the pale American version will be nothing like the original Japanese episodes with the vapid girly pop star, macho man hunky guy, pompous intellectual, and bitchy professional food critic. I loved loved loved watching the show with subtitles at my favorite ramen shop in San Francisco. The translations in English were so nice, especially when I thought the old biddy critic was being harsh. That alone was so good for a laugh!
Oh nothing can recapture the quintessential nature of the original show. Will the founder of the show be biting into the pepper with his frilly fist around the vegetable? That is one of the best TV moments, e-v-e-r.