Thread: Next Iron Chef America - Japanese Challenge (Spoilers)

If you read the article I linked above, you will see the execs tell all the Chopped judges to sneer and be intimidating. She said off-camera they are always laughing and joking around. Throughout her battle with Flay on ICA she was very affable and funny.

Well, thank you, rocks. Thanks for reading my comments in the spirit they were offered. You know, if Amanda Freitag's presentations didn't appeal to you, then they didn't, and that's a fair comment, IMO. If her countenance doesn't appeal to you in some way, then I'd say that's not something that should disqualify someone from receiving the Iron Chef designation--*except that* so far as I know, at least in...

Interesting that you mention Emeril. I, too, think that he advanced the culinary tastes of the general public in the early days of FoodTV. Once he found stride on camera, he had an appeal as he was somewhat iconoclastic, but he certainly had the chops to earn the respect of the "old timers", like Julia and Paul Prudhomme. I think that he did his best work on camera when there was a live audience. Perhaps he became a bit...

To reply, I was quite honestly thinking more of a well-rounded Latin presence. I am hoping that if Chef Garces does, indeed, win, he would bring that type of cooking presence to ICA. But, who are well all kidding?!? This IS Food Network. They will put on what they want too, and we will have to accept it. I never really thought about the "why's" of Bobby Flay. But now that you mention it, I do see his marketability as...

his skewers looked fab though!

This show was an hour long commercial for Kikkoman. I'm fine with product placement... it helps pay for the show. But right off the start, when Alton was reading what was pretty much ad copy for the product, it became a farce. Will next week be about finding that 6th taste - Miracle Whip?

The editing certainly made it seem like Chef Freitag's dishes were well received by the judging panel apart from the raw mushroom, and made it seem like Chef Mehta was in trouble, but then all of a sudden Chef Freitag was eliminated. Now, certainly there's nothing wrong to edit a reality show to increase its entertainment value, but to me the editing of the judgment was very very misleading regarding how the chefs actually did.

She will still be in plenty of other FN shows, but this is not her game. I never understood why CHers though it was her to lose...

That bothered me tremendously also. The product placement is getting way out of hand.

I'm surprised that they're not forcing the chefs to get all of their ingredients from an American Airlines terminal and cook in an American Airlines plane while wearing chefs whites with an American Airlines logo on it. Actually, I believe last season they did cook in an AA plane. I'm probably rooting for Garces at this point. I doubt Mehta will win as they're not giving him the best edit.