Nov-05-2009'Iron Chef' taping at White House; 'Office' star visiting Austin
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CONTENTS:SOURCESFIND OUT MORE ON THIS SUBJECTThe two-hour event, which kicks off the new season of the cook-off series on Jan. 3, pits Iron Chefs Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse against Iron Chef Bobby Flay and White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford. Their challenge is to create five dishes in a "meal for America" featuring the secret ingredient (revealed by none other than the First Lady herself): anything found in the White House Kitchen Garden. Judging this competition are cookbook author and chef Nigella Lawson, Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer (and former
'Dancing With the Stars' contestant) Natalie Coughlin, and actress (and fellow 'DWTS' also-ran) Jane Seymour. Regardless of any political leanings, however, fans of cook-off shows will no doubt salivate from the sheer culinary power unleashed in this epic Kitchen Stadium event. To show off scrumptious dishes using locally produced, organic ingredients? That's just icing on the cake.
[1] Michelle Obama's White House garden is having quite a week. The garden played astarring role in Tuesday night's episode of
"The Biggest Loser," and today Food Network announced it will also take center stage in aspecial episode of
"Iron Chef America." Chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse go to D.C. where they will be greeted by the First Lady and joined by White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford for a Super Chef Battle. The chairman's challenge: Create a meal for America using The White House Kitchen Garden'''s produce as their secret ingredients.
[2] 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.
[3] To spread the word about the garden and related projects, the FLOTUS will appear on the season premiere of the Food Network's
Iron Chef America on January 3, as two teams of chefs (White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford and Bobby Flay versus Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse) battle it out. The wow factor, reveals the New York Times : In a collision of politics, cooking and popular culture, Michelle Obama will reveal the secret ingredient that the chefs must use in their televised cook-off: anything that grows in the White House garden (no further spoilers here, though). Mrs. Obama will also talk about her crusade to reduce childhood obesity through better school lunches, community gardens, farmers' markets and exercise, which around the White House has the working title Healthy Kids Initiative.
[4] The Food Network announced Wednesday that an episode of "Iron Chef America" will be taped at the White House featuring Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse. The three chefs, joined by White House chef Cristeta Comerford, will be welcomed by the first lady and allowed to use anything found in the garden to help create their meals.
[5] In a programming coup for cable's The Food Network, three of the channel's Iron Chefs will be joined by the White House chef and First Lady Michele Obama in a cooking contest using the White House Kitchen Garden as well as the actual White House kitchen. Bobby Flay will team up with WH's Cristeta Comerford against a team composed of Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse in a cook-off in which they must prepare five distinctly American dishes with food harvested from the garden.
[6] Food Network celebrity chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse were in Washington last month for the special taping at the White House, confirms the First Lady's office. In the episode, the chefs are greeted by the First Lady and are given their Super Chef Challenge: "create a meal for America using the White House Kitchen Garden's produce as their secret ingredients," announced the Food Network in a statement.
[7] There's no specifics yet on what the secret ingredient will be, but it is something that grows in the White House garden and ties in with the First Lady's "Healthy Kids Initiative" to get kids eating better and exercising. Beyond all that, this sounds like its going to be a great episode of the show. It will pit White House chef Cristeta Comerford and Bobby Flay against Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse.
[8] Michelle Obama and White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford gave Batali, Lagasse and Flay the challenge of using produce from the White House garden as the "secret ingredient". In new-media fashion, Flay
even tweeted about it this morning. The special episode premieres Sunday, January 3rd at 8pm ET. Here is the full New York Times article (and a picture of Mario Batali wearing RIDICULOUS orange shenanegans on his feet).
[9] America's First Couple have eaten a meal prepared by Jamie Oliver and visited New York's high-ranking Blue Duck Tavern this year for their wedding anniversary, so it's only fiting that the local-food crusading Obamas are set to factor heavily in North America's favourite culinary pastime: Iron Chef America. That's right: ICA is set to air a special episode on Jan. 3 will not only feature scenes within the White House, but Michelle Obama herself will greet the chefs and explain the challenge: to use ingredients from the Obama residence's vegetable garden to create five dishes that represent "the ultimate American meal."
[10] The new season of "Iron Chef America" will get a little taste of the White House. The First Lady Michelle Obama is going to be the guest on the Food Network program, being the one who reveals the secret ingredient that the chefs must use in their cooking challenge.
[11] Some people say that President Obama has been on TV too much since he became President a year ago, but his wife is about to make a big splash on one of Food Network's most popular shows. First Lady Michelle Obama will reveal the secret ingredient on the January 3 special episode of
Iron Chef America (I don't think it's the season premiere because we're in the middle of new episodes right now).
[8] "We are honored to showcase The White House Kitchen Garden in Iron Chef America," said Bob Tuschman, Senior Vice President, Programming and Production for Food Network. "This is the most intense culinary competition we've ever shown. It's awe-inspiring to see what four master chefs can create from locally-grown ingredients in the heat of Kitchen Stadium." While the episode is sure to anger the
critics of the first lady's garden, it is designed to promote her fight against childhood obesity and healthier living.
[12] The three were joined by the White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford, who teamed up with Flay against the other two chefs in a cooking contest filmed later in NYC. After the chefs finished foraging for vegetables in the garden, the first lady came out to make a cameo in the episode (wearing a pumpkin-orange dress with teal blue shoes and short sweater!) and talked about her crusade to reduce childhood obesity through better school lunches, community gardens, farmers' markets and exercise.
Iron Chef America is watched by over a million viewers, and off-camera the first lady told the chefs, "This is huge. It is going a long way to help change the way this country thinks about food.
[13] The First Lady has scored a cameo on " Iron Chef America," along with White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford. It's all part of her sneaky plan to make children eat better.
[14] Iron Chefs Bobby Flay and Mario Batali as well as Emiril Lagasse and White House head chef Cristeta Comerford will take part in the competition, to be judged by Nigella Lawson, U.S. Olympic gold medallist Natalie Coughlin and actress Jane Seymour ''' the Obamas themselves will, unfortunately, not be present in Kitchen Stadium for the culinary showdown.
[10] Cristeta Comerford, the White House executive chef, teams up with celebrity chef Bobby Flay to compete against the combination of Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse.
[11] Filmed in October, the two-hour special will pit TV chef superstars Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse against Bobby Flay and White House Executive Chef Cris Comerford.
[12] The Food Network announced today that Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse came to the White House last month (how did we miss this?) to film a special two-hour Iron Chef episode, called "Super Chef Battle".
[9] Last month celebrity chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, and Emeril Lagasse visited the White House garden to film part of a special two-hour episode of
Iron Chef America to emphasize locally-grown, healthy food.
[13] In the episode, which will open the show's new season, Comerford and celebrity chef Bobby Flay joins forces against Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse. Mrs. Obama will reveal the secret ingredient that the chefs must use in their televised cook-off, the
New York Times reported. She'll also talk about her Healthy Kids Initiative.
[14] The chefs will compete in teams: Flay and Comerford versus Batali and Lagasse. Armed with their secret White House Kitchen Garden ingredients, the four chefs then head to New York to 'Kitchen Stadium' for the actual battle. According to the Food Network statement, "each team must produce five dishes that showcase the ingredients they selected from the garden and that represent the ultimate American meal."
[7] The episode premieres Sunday, January 3rd. According to Food Network, the chefs will be allowed to use anything found in the White House Kitchen Garden to help them create their meals. It will be Flay and Comerfordagainst Batali and Lagasse. Each team must come up with five dishes that showcase their gardenfreshingredients and best represent "the ultimate American meal."
[2] 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.
[3] If you like food and politics (and who doesn't) then don't miss the January 3rd episode of Iron Chef America, which features the White House garden as a secret ingredient.
[12] The First Couple is smarter than smart, and hip too. They're also big sweet potato lovers, according to the First Lady, who suggested the chefs might want to add one or two from the White House garden to their cooking. Iron Chef's season opener was taped at the White House with the First Lady; the chefs had a reunion cook-off in New York this past Tuesday sans Mrs. Obama.
[14] The battlefield would be Michelle's vegetable garden where participants are allowed to use whatever grow there to help create the meals. Michelle's appearance on the cooking show is not simply to welcome the chefs but also to talk about her goal in reducing the number of obesity and unhealthy school lunches for children. Batali commented, "What's exciting for us is this is the first time I can remember the White House taking an active interest in doing something about diet and health. They understand this kind of P.R."
[11] Since the Garden was planted back in March, it has produced hundreds of pounds of vegetables that the White House chefs use in presidential meals and that the Obama's donate to DC area food pantries.
[7] Obama reveals that the secret ingredient for the challenge is anything grown in the White House garden, the Food Network said.
[15] In addition to the "secret ingredient" of White House Kitchen Garden veggies (stand-in organic veggies were used for the actual filming) the chefs were given a baby pig, and a pantry of dairy products to work with, among other things.
[3] Here's another interesting twist: The ingredients used for the actual cooking challenge in Kitchen Stadium were not from the White House garden.
[3] The novelty of seeing food and science geek Alton Brown stand in front of the White House. The novelty of Mario Batali, in his bright orange crocs, stand next to the perennially well-dressed Michelle. Soon Mr. Flay was hurling accusations at Mr. Lagasse: "Did you take all the cauliflower?" That prompted Mr. Lagasse to throw him one.
[12] The New York Times reports that Michelle Obama's communications director reached out to "Iron Chef" as a way of reaching more people with the first lady's message. A message understood by Batali, who said, "If we don't do something about how kids eat soon, it will be simply the largest problem facing this country." The first lady also talked with the chefs about the importance of their involvement. "This is huge," she said. "It is going a long way to help change the way this country thinks about food.
[12] NEW YORK — Michelle Obama's vegetable garden is about to become a culinary battlefield.
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[1] You know what I'd like to see as the secret ingredient on Iron Chef America ? Ring Dings.
[8] Today, the chefs reunited in New York in the Iron Chef Kitchen Stadium, the stage set where the competition part of the show occurs.
[3] 'When you don. Iron Chef Bobby Flay usually dominates in kitchen stadium, but how will he fair. Every morning Samantha Davies straps on ankle weights and takes her dog for.
[10] Flay and Comerford will face off against Batali and Lagasse in the network's Kitchen Stadium to produce five dishes showcasing the ingredients.
[16] Alton Brown will host the battle, in which the chefs will be split into two teams: Flay and Comerford versus Batali and Lagasse.
[17] 
The battle's judges will include chef Nigella Lawson, Olympic gold medalist Natalie Coughlin; and actress Jane Seymour. [7] The episode, which airs on Jan. 3 at 8 p.m. on the Food Network, features
Jane Seymour,
Nigella Lawson and Olympic swimmer
Natalie Coughlin as judges.
[15] Guest judges for the competition part of the episode were cookbook author/chef Nigella Lawson, actress Jane Seymour, and Olympic swimming champ Natalie Coughlin.
[3] The chefs harvest ingredients from the 1,100-square-foot garden before facing off in Kitchen Stadium. [15] 'It is going a long way to help change the way this country thinks about food. I want you to come back,' Michelle tells the chefs off-camera about the message she's been trying to deliver.
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