If you just can't bring yourself to wait until the 12th [of January], you can check out Jamie on Sunday, January 6 at 10 pm when he competes against Mario Batali on an episode of Iron Chef America.

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The folks at the Food Network arranged a zillion drive-by phone interviews Wednesday for Alton Brown, the host of The Next Iron Chef, a show premiering next Sunday, October 7, at 9 p.m. ET.

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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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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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