Whats the Iron Chef cooking?
by Chris Flood FOR THE POST Just what in the world was that on the Food Network at 7 p.m. Sunday? Some remember seeing it – the cooking show with an expressive host, costumed chefs straight off the Siegfried and Roy tour bus and a studio audience that makes an English soccer crowd look like members of a hospital waiting room. Welcome to America’s latest cult fave “Iron Chef.” “Iron Chef” is the Food Network’s second-highest rated show and definitely the most innovative, yet bizarre, cooking program in history. It originated in Japan in 1993 but didn’t land in American living rooms until last summer. The imported version uses dubbed translations for the iron chefs and subtitles for the host Kaga Takeshi (hearing this guy talk is half the fun of the show). Kaga plays an eccentric gourmand who lives in a castle with his iron chefs. These iron chefs comprise four members, one from each of the highly regarded culinary fields of Japanese, Chinese, French and Italian. Each episode, Kaga choos
