At least that’s what I thought. In actual fact, I don’t love cooking programmes, I love British cooking programmes. American cookery shows are a different kettle of pan fried fish altogether. They are – like most American tv programmes – absolutely mental.

And none more so than Iron Chef America.

Hmmmm. Not convinced by the mentalness. Lets look at my favourite part of the show. The special ingredient part…

Ooooooh

Aaaaaaah

Convinced? Lets proceed.

Iron Chef America is based on a Japanese (obviously!) show – Iron Chef. The original name for the Japanese version was ‘Ironmen Cooking’. Needless to say, I much prefer the original name. It describes the show with far more accuracy and finesse. I wish it was still called that.

ps. Jamie Oliver was a guest chef last year.
pps. Check out their outfits. Please.
ppps. Wanna know more, take a look at the unbelievably detailed Wikipedia entry.