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The Village Voice's Robert Sietsema gives an inside look at Iron Chef America: "the fog machines kept cranking throughout the taping, concealing all sorts of details the network might not want you to see."
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In a related article, a feature in this month's DV magazine takes a journal-like look at the technical aspects of putting together an episode of Iron Chef America. For example:
LunaPierCook at 2:19PM on 02/20/08
Interesting article, although Sietsema seems oddly shocked by things that the network is pretty upfront about during their behind-the-scenes shows, especially the fact that the timed versions of the dishes aren't the ones served to the judges.
matt8313 at 2:20PM on 02/20/08
Most of what Sietsema describes is indeed revealed in the ICA's Behind the Scenes show. And, there are plenty of articles on the internet discussing the same show details. The stand-ins make perfect sense and I had assumed such from the get go. No surprise there. Just my .02.
DanaMc at 3:23PM on 02/20/08
Sietsema writes like a kid who just found out WWE isn't actually a sport, but is entirely staged. Is he completely unfamiliar with the show? And making a point that it can be easily disproved that the American chairman is not the nephew of the Japanese chairman? Come one, man! Even the Japanese chairman is not the chairman. (Though he is a fantastic actor, having starred as Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of Les Mis.) As for the timed dishes, had he never noticed on the show that the competitors only plate 1 of each dish? Of course there are a separate set of dishes for the judges. This is entertainment, not an actual sport. You would think he just broke a major league scandal.
feelgood at 3:24PM on 02/20/08
Iron Chef is just entertainment, just like Sietsema's article. Why be so serious? I wonder how he would've fared had he switched his undercover gig from the Iron Chef set to a slaughterhouse full of sick and abused cows.
OneWallKitchen at 7:34PM on 02/20/08