Posts Tagged ‘Iron Chef America’
Should Have Seen This Coming: ‘Iron Chef’ Visits White House for ‘Kitchen Garden’ Challenge
Comerford and Flay get fresh (veggies) in the White House garden.
Jeesh, speaking of predictions, Y&H should have guessed this would happen as soon as the White House broke ground on its kitchen garden in March: Iron Chef America has trotted out three of its, ahem, heaviest hitters to cook a meal from ingredients plucked from the hugely symbolic garden.
The special two-hour episode of Iron Chef America, dubbed with a stunning lack of subtlety, Super Chef Battle, features Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse, who take on Bobby Flay and White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford in the competition.
The episode has already been filmed, and according to The New York Times‘ account, First Lady Michelle Obama laid out the ground rules to the teams (they had to cook five dishes using ingredients from the White House kitchen garden) and put in a good plug for her Healthy Kids Initiative.
The show will air on Sunday, Jan. 3, on the Food Network.
Not surprisingly, the air date is politically tinged. So says Y&H’s virtual friend, Obama Foodorama, who writes:
McDonald’s Should Just Embrace Its Fat-Loving Doppelgänger
I’m not sure how I missed this delightful dust-up from a couple of years ago, but some enterprising Food Network viewer captured this moment on Iron Chef America, in which the show’s sponsor, McDonald’s, allegedly sliced in a frame of subliminal advertising. The Dark Mouse denied all, of course. But Y&H really would love McDonald’s if it suddenly assumed a Fight Club-like persona, fully aware of its evil doppelgänger.
