'Dinner Impossible' Premieres Tonight with Host Michael Symon
Winner of Food Network's reality show The Next Iron Chef, Michael Symon will begin hosting Dinner Impossible tonight, kicking off with two back-to-back episodes: one on Alcatraz Island, the other on the New Jersey boardwalk. Symon replaced Robert Irvine after "embellishments and inaccuracies" were made on Irvine's resume in February.
According to this video interview (Warning: autoplay video), Symon wasn't allowed to cook on the historic prison island so he prepared everything at an off-site facility then shipped in the food. But as Iron Chef proved, Symon loves a good adrenaline rush. "I'm always pretty jacked up for a good competition," he said in the video.
One episode to get excited for: a visit to the Crayola Crayon factory, where Symon had to spin a wheel with 64 crayons in a box—whatever color came up, that's the hue his cooked food had to be. The hardest? Symon says purple because as he pointed out, eggplant, when cooked, is no longer purple. Get all caught up on his blog, Symon Says. And after the jump, watch this preview episode of Symon making chocolate-covered bacon.
Michael Symon Makes Chocolate-Covered Bacon
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8 Comments:
crud, i was wondering what happened to robert, i liked him so much.
agk685 at 12:02PM on 08/20/08
bring back robert....
suburbangourmet at 1:24PM on 08/20/08
what happened with Robert was slander, most of the embellishments and lies were actually the truth. The Food Network should not have jumped the gun so quickly, especially since Robert came up with the idea for this show.
tricia_m at 2:24PM on 08/20/08
oh forgot to link his blog where he comes clean about what happened:
http://www.chefrobertirvineblog.com/
tricia_m at 2:38PM on 08/20/08
Bring back the liar, he's much more entertaining!
peekpoke at 3:32PM on 08/20/08
Tricia...Actually the idea for the show wasn't Robert's (per his own blog it was created by Brian O'Reilly)
I liked watching him on the show, but i think changing it up is a good thing...Symon may not have the english accent or the in your face persaonlity, but he does appear to have a great sense of humor and an ability to complete the tasks at hand....i agree that a lot of the information spread about Robert was untrue, but the damage to his credibility was done...regardless of being true or not....that's sad..but it happens to celebrities all the time. It's the risk you take being in the spotlight ...unfortunately.
FoodieDiva at 4:26PM on 08/20/08
Am I missing something on that blog? Where's the 'come clean' bit?
Nehna at 8:36PM on 08/20/08
@Nehna: we blogged about Robert Irvine apologizing on his 'blog site' back in July.
Raphael at 9:19PM on 08/20/08