(Note: Please play Backdraft by Hans Zimmer as you read this post out loud in a deep Takeshi Kaga voice.) But as the masterless samurai moves forward in search of battle, never stopping, never ceasing ...

Iron Chef America, like the Japanese original, is fascinating for its delicate balance of culinary spectacle and utter silliness. (The acrobatic chairman, a wholly unnecessary character, is supposed ...

Cooking shows have been around as long as television itself, but the cooking competition subgenre — think Top Chef and Great British Bake-Off — is a relatively new phenomenon. Like so many things we ...

Theme : Trout In a new Iron Chef rivalry, Bobby Flay takes on Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai, who has won more battles than any other Iron Chef and will open a new restaurant in Hawaii this year.

About a year ago, a friend called to say he’d scored a pair of tickets to a taping of Iron Chef America. His company provides cookware used on the show, so it was possible for me to go as a guest ...