Iron Chef - Battle of the White House Vegetables

It was the holiday season.
It was the time for our favorite comfort foods and all the holiday indulgences, then there on the Food Network it happened, the First Lady, telling us to eat our vegetables.
Yes, it was, Michelle Obama, Emeril Lagasse, Bobby Flay, Mario Batali and Cristeta Comerfor in the celebrity Iron chef overload.
The last thing we want to hear is a sermon about eating our vegetables when we are only half way through our holiday apple pie.
Don't they know stuff like this crushes the spirit of the holiday chocolates?
The four chefs, divided into teams of Lagasse and Batali vs. Flay and Comerford, and they were challenged to use White House garden ingredients to "create a healthy meal."

The actual cooking battle portion of the show was really boring, so we started counting how many commercials they could cram into the program, we lost count.
Then, after the commercials we were forced to endure a boring recap of the show we just saw before the commercial.  And really, how many times did we need to hear “CULINARY SUPER BATTLE?”
Poor Emeril,  sweating like a pig,  into and onto everything.
In case you were acting in your best interest and missed the show,  Bobby Flay and White House Chef Comerford won the battle. Wow, what a surprise!!!
We really don't know how much we can expect from Iron Chef these days, but the Food Network has practically dismissed all association with Batali and Lagasse. and could we really expect  the chef from the White House to lose?

Bourdain & White discuss chefs, kitchens & The Food Network

Anthony Bourdain and Marco Pierre White have standards.

Marco Pierre White, is the legendary British chef with a quick temper and a similarly candid view of the restaurant world as Bourdain. Maybe you haven't heard of Marco, but many regard him as one of the greatest. Even if you have never heard of Marco there is every chance you've heard of Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, Gary Rhodes, Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal, they trained and worked with Marco. We believe Marco played a major roll as the creator of the modern-day phenomenon that is the celebrity chefs.

Pierre White and Bourdain discussed the role of the chef: in the kitchen, and on TV.

The question: what “defines a chef?” White’s chef is somebody who works up the ranks from “boy cook to head of the kitchen,” stressing that the chef’s name on the door should be the person cooking the food—either stationed at the burner or working the pass. He referred to many chefs as “living lies” by not cooking in their own kitchens.

Bourdain stressed chef as a “leader, who can get somebody to show up to work every day.”

Regarding chefs on TV? The Food Network has some crap on-air talent,. so what’s the point of the television chef? “TV is a way to inspire people to cook. People don’t learn to cook from others, they teach themselves to cook,” said Pierre White. And about Gordon Ramsay—whom White recently took over for on the British version of “Kitchen Nightmares”? “The last thing you should be doing in the kitchen is belittling people,” said Pierre White adding the barb that Ramsay even made himself cry on TV. Bourdain added that Mario Batali was the most qualified stand-and-stir host the network has seen.

Who is this Guy?

We have received a few inquiries about Food Network's Guy Fieri, asking why we don't feature him. True, we have never paid much attention to him, but we took a look and honestly, there's not much to look at.

Guy Fieri’s appearance on David Letterman illustrates why. (WATCH) His jokes completely bomb with the audience and his interaction with Letterman looked forced and awkward.

He even seemed stiff talking about a subject he ought be comfortable with, food. It goes from bad to worse at the end where he takes a bite of a big burger. It looked like Letterman wanted little to do with any of this and Guy really didn't know what to do after that either.

Only his biggest fans would offer applause for taking a bite out of a big sandwich.

He's probably popular and a very nice guy, but when you become a celebrity chef type person we have the right to expect a little more.

But still, if you want to see Guy Fieri and spend an hour with him. "Get Fired Up" with Guy Fieri. The tickets start at $35 and land at $125 - Tickets on Sale.