baking fool
Senior Cook
the original Iron Chef seemed to have really good challengers. There was the Ohta faction, which was a group of super-traditional Japanese chefs, who kept battling Morimoto (the contemporary-Japanese Iron Chef); a former personal chef of a mayor of Paris; someone who lost to Chen Kenichi in some other contest & wanted revenge, etc etc. It always seemed to be one illustrious challenger after another on the original show, & Iron Chef America doesn't seem to have many. Or maybe it's that they don't play up the challenger's "illustriousness" like the original show did? I wonder if we can think up some people who would be good to see on Iron Chef America? What about the White House chef (whoever it is) or the chef of some foodie governor, or maybe Bobby Flay vs Locke Dean (Flay's former teacher)... or Oprah Winfrey's personal chef, etc etc? Does anyone have any more ideas? What about someone who Flay beat in a throwdown?