White House to host episode of 'Iron Chef America'

Michelle Obama's vegetable garden is about to become a culinary battlefield.

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Jose Garces, Philadelphia's "it" chef-restaurateur, was announced last night as the newest member of the Food Network's Iron Chef America team - not only earning him bragging rights, but also directing an international spotlight on his fast-growing empire run out of Old City.

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The Lakewood Public Library Foundation and First Federal of Lakewood are pleased to announce "An Evening with Michael Symon," on Thursday, November 19, at 6:30 p.m. at the Lakewood Public Library, 15425 Detroit Ave.

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Is your TV turning Japanese? With so many game shows imported from Japan and translated for American audiences, you may really think so.

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Say it isn't so!

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A chef in full white uniform approaches you at your seat and explains the menu, inquiring about your likes and dislikes. He makes it clear that the menu is open to interpretation, and that you should feel free to mix and match.

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For those of you who haven't seen Iron Chef America, it is a show on the Food Network where a challenger picks to battle one of 4 chefs in Kitchen Stadium. We now have the real iron chef created by retired Chinese professor Liu Changfa.

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Chef, Channel Parting Ways, but Observers Say He Has Little to Worry About. "Molto Mario" means "a lot of Mario," but fans of the Italian-American master chef Mario Batali will be seeing much less of him on Food Network this season.

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Chef Mario Batali has been chopped from TV's Food Network, the influential cooking channel that made him a household name.

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The Food Network is in production on The Next Iron Chef, a reality show on which -- see if you can follow along with us -- the next Iron Chef, to be chef #5 along side Batali, Flay, Morimoto and Cora, will be selected by the judging panel of Michael Ruhlman (noted food writer), A …

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On the New York Times Diners Journal blog, which is no longer just written by Frank Bruni, Julia Moskin writes about a Japanese food symposium held at the Japan Society.

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Reader Stanley sent us this photograph of what he described as a "low key PETA protest" from the other day. Two PETA demonstrators were protesting an Iron Chef America outside of Chelsea Market, where the show films.

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I actually WATCH Food Network now and again, more often than not drawn in by the progressive horrors on screen. I find myself riveted by its awfulness, like watching a multi-car accident in slow motion.

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Bagram Air Base soldiers compete in an Iron Chef competition.

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