4 posts tagged “cuisine”

The Featured Ingredient on tonight's episode of Iron Chef (Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking") on SBS Television is ...

Boot

Sole

Once again I am pleased to report that the Featured Ingredient was dead, so it did not try to run away.  Nor did we have to have a Reader Advisory at the start of the program warning viewers that scenes might be "distressing to some viewers".

I have also commented in previous posts on  Iron Chef (Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking") that Chairman Kaga is no Bert Newton.  He might be a great actor but he is hopeless at improv.  A sample.

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Chairman Kaga (to Challenger): So you have heard about my show i n San Francisco? (where the Challenger works)

Challenger [waxes lyrical at great length about how the show is famous amongst all chefs great and small].

Chairman Kaga [after a pause, looks deep in thought]:  Really?

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Admittedly these are the sub-title renditions of the conversations.  But ... really?

Unfortunately, no sooner have I got back into the Iron Chef (Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking") habit that SBS announce that it is going off for a few weeks.  Oh well.

• Earlier reviews of Iron Chef (Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking") may be found on The Mount Kembla Chronicle.

The Featured Ingredient on tonight's edition of Iron Chef (Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking") on SBS Television is ...

Festival la Tomantina, Bunol, Valencia, Spain

Tomatoes

This was a tag-team event between Iron Chefs Michiba and the .. um .. the Italian one, against 2 Italian chefs.

I was hoping that the match might end up like the famous Tomato festival in the Spanish town of Bunol - where everyone basicaally throws tomatoes at each other - but no such luck, I'm sad to say.

Umeboshi

The featured ingredient on tonight's edition of Iron Chef (Ryōri no tetsujin - 料理の鉄人, "Ironmen of Cooking") on SBS Television is ...

Umeboshi (Japanese plum)

It was good having our own Japanese guests explaining how this is used in cooking - how it can taste salty, how it can reduce the fishy smell in fish, and so on.

This was the first program where Iron Chef Michiba returned after his spell in hospital (which, if Chairman Kaga is to be believed, was partly due to being previously beaten in challenges twice in a row).

No prizes for guessing who won this challenge.  The betting shop closed as soon as we saw who was being challenged.

Sometimes when Pauline & I are socialising with former classmates from other nations, they will offer us samples of their usually-very-tasty cuisine from their particular part of the world.

Sometimes they do this with a slightly apologetic air, as though they are worried that they might upset my delicate Caucasian tummy.

Well, after reading the following article in The Guardian online, I can assure them that they have nothing to fear!

Fancy some good English cooking?

• Article in The Guardian
• Link in NewsVine