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Suzan Colón: Recap: The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs — Passion Challenge (TV Squad)
Allergy warning: This blog contains dairy, nuts, and spoilers.
On _Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs_ (Sun, 9 p.m. ET, Food Network), the remaining
chefs — Geoffrey Zakarian, Michael Chiarello, Elizabeth Falkner, and Alex
Guarnaschelli — faced freaky chefonomics: each got $500 and two hours to make
a three-course seafood menu for 20 Hamptons residents. The result would
subtract not one but two chefs.
To make the challenge a little more, well, challenging, the chefs had to cook
outdoors. Chiarello got burned, Falkner worried about losing a finger due to
jostling, Guarnaschelli tore a lobster limb from spiny limb, and Zakarian
sported a number of Hello Kitty bandages.
Guarnaschelli presented the judges with raw fluke with tomato jam, smoked clam
chowder, and lobster hollandaise, which showed her passion for nose to tail
cooking. The judges — Iron Chef Michael Symon, Iron Chef America Judy Joo,
and Simon Majumdar — served warm praise and light hand-smacking: Majumdar
said there was too much salt, Symon said there was too little, and Joo was
over-hollandaised.
Falkner’s passion for her surroundings was reflected in smoked scallops on
corn puree; cioppino; and Vichyssoise chowder. Majumdar literally licked his
soup bowl, but Falkner looked concerned …
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