Correction
FYI: The link to the ABC News’ Secrets of Iron Chef America article on its website has now been corrected. It no longer connects to an article on Lindsay Lohan’s bi-sexuality (something ELV admits must’ve been a Nabakovian Freudian slip), and now reflects the admittedly less perverse but still viscerally fascinating subject of what really goes on behind the scenes of ICA.
ELV regrets the error….but not that much.
For another view of ICA, check out this link, calling the whole production a sham (Iron Chef America, not the question of Lindsay’s sexuality.) It isn’t. Within the bounds of producing a time-sensitive cooking contest, the production is about as faithful to the end product as it ever could be. The Amateur Gourmet who writes that website is just that.
And muchos gracias, molto grazie, merci beaucoup and xie xie to uber-food-guy Dean Howard for the heads-up on both items.
Restaurant reviews, quips, picks and pans-with some seriously salivating history-from the man who eats his way through Sin City every day.
August 8th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
But, as YOU know John, each chef gets a list of three possible “secret ingredients” a month before so they can practice and devise a menu. Their kitchens in the stadium are then stocked full of the items needed to prepare one of those menus. So they are not really thinking on their feet as the Chairman would like you to believe… So its kind of a sham.
August 8th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
But it’s no secret that they get some time to plan a menu(s) for possible use on the show. To just show an ingredient to a chef and say: “make five dishes in an hour” would be impossible and ludicrous. You’re right….if people out there think that everything is dreamed up and executed in 60 minutes, immediately after they see the secret ingredient, then yes, they’re being misled.
Imagine the atrocities that would be “invented” and served if they really did have only an hour…..