The Food Network is bringing Iron Chef to the United States with an Americanized version of the show. Iron Chef America is set to launch with an original series of four special episodes in April, 2004.<br />
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Those of you that are fans of the series may recall the short lived <a href="https://www.briansbelly.com/ironchef/"><strong>Iron Chef USA</strong></a> in November of 2001 on UPN which starred <a href="https://www.briansbelly.com/ironchef/"><strong>William Shatner</strong></a> as the chairman. This time around, Good Eats chef/scientist <a href="https://www.briansbelly.com/featured/altonbrown/"><strong>Alton Brown</strong></a> will take the role of play-by-ingredient commentator.<br />
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The American Iron Chefs are Bobby Flay, Mario Batali and Wolfgang Puck. In these special episodes the American Iron Chefs do kitchen battle with the Japanese Iron Chefs Masaharo Morimoto and Hiroyuki Sakai. As any Iron Chef fan knows, there is also a set of judges and the American version will include Paige Davis (Trading Spaces), Dennis Franz (NYPD Blue), Barbara Fairchild (editor of Bon Appetit), and Vincent Pastore (Sopranos) among others.<br />
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For more info on Alton Brown, <a href="https://www.briansbelly.com/featured/altonbrown/"><strong>read this</strong></a>.
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