ICA: Garces vs. Cowan
Last week the Iron Chefs visited the set of Chopped. This week the inverse happens. Iron Chef Jose Garces faces off against challenger Madison Cowan. Chef Cowan is the first ever Grand Champion on the hit series Chopped. Judges are Karine Bakhoum, Laurent Tourondel and Farmer Lee Jones.
Chef Madison Cowan is a hands-on dad, author, restaurateur and former street resident with roots in London, Detroit and Jamaica. He also runs Madison Cowan LLC, a global culinary production company that oversees operations in licensing and consulting, cookery demonstration, television appearances and mobile clandestine dining that has reached throughout Africa, Europe, Japan and South America.
In 2010 Food Network selected him as a contestant for their hit Primetime series, Chopped where he competed and won three consecutive episodes to become the first ever Chopped Grand Champion. He will next be seen on BBC America’s exciting new series No Kitchen Required, set to premiere April 2012. Madison has also written his first cookbook Soul Voyage about cooking from your soul, no matter the ingredients, location or who you are, as well as chronicling a few of his journeys. Madison currently resides in New York.
The Chopped kitchen is a tough venue to be sure but there is no place like Kitchen Stadium for there waits Iron Chef Jose Garces for Battle: Kale.
Check below for the outcome.
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Garces Cowan
Taste: 23 Taste: 26
Plating: 13 Plating: 13
Originality: 12 Originality: 14
Total: 48 Total: 53
ICA: Forgione vs Cantrel – Outcome
SPOILER ALERT: The following information is the outcome of Forgione vs Cantrel. If you want information on the combatants click HERE. If you are only interested in the outcome read on.
The judges for Battle: Gruyère were Laurent Tourondel, Adam Richman and Nigella Lawson.
Forgione Cantrel
Taste: 23 Taste: 25
Plating: 12 Plating: 13
Originality: 11 Originality: 13
Total: 46 Total: 51
If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out my recent interview with the newest Iron Chef, Marc Forgione HERE.
Next time Jose Garces vs. Michael Solomonov.
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ICA: Forgione vs Cantrel
The holidays are behind us and with them has gone the special battles pitting network stars against one another in clever self-promotion challenges. Now it’s time to get down to the nitty gritty again. Entering Kitchen Stadium is Chef Nicholas Cantrel of Bistrot Bagatelle in New York City. Waiting for him is the newest Iron Chef Marc Forgione.
Cantrel’s specialty is French cuisine with Mediterranean overtones. He seamlessly combines simplicity with playful twists and clean flavors a style he undoubtedly developed while growing up in Normandy. And as is the way in Europe he began working in restaurants at the age of 14, a system that predates culinary schools by a millennium.
Since those early days in Northern France he was compiled a pretty impressive resume. He spent nine years learning from the great Alain Decasse. Chef Nicholas also toiled in the kitchens of Daniel Boulud and Geoffrey Zakarian before being named the executive chef at Bobo in New York City. This past summer he was one of a handful of chefs selected to cook for the James Beard Organization’s summer gala Chefs & Champagne®. These days his cuisine draws on French technique as its foundation but he will incorporate any style that presents itself.
It will be interesting to see who the judges are since Cantrel’s Bistrot Bagatelle is represented by KB Network News the restaurant PR firm headed by frequent ICA judge Karine Bakhoum. For a while there had been whispers that Bakhoum was generous whenever adjudicating former client Bobby Flay’s battles. I never noticed any leniency but like I say there were whispers.
The judges for Battle: Gruyère were Laurent Tourondel, Adam Richman and Nigella Lawson.
If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out my recent interview with the newest Iron Chef, Marc Forgione HERE.
Click HERE for the outcome.
Next time Jose Garces vs. Michael Solomonov.
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Next Iron Chef 3 Finale – Outcome
SPOILER ALERT: The following information is the outcome of Canora vs. Forgione for the title Next Iron Chef. If you want informa
tion on the combatants click HERE. If you are only interested in the outcome read on.
The judges for Battle: Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast were Donatella Arpaia and Simon Majumdar plus Iron Chefs Michael Symon, Bobby Flay and Morimoto.
Congratulations to the Next Iron Chef. . .
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Marc Forgione
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Did you miss an episode of NIC because you were helping count write-in votes in Alaska? No problem, you can get caught up HERE. Be sure to check out my exclusive interviews with Celina Tio (HERE), Mary Dumont (HERE) and Maneet Chauhan (HERE).
Be sure to check out new Iron Chef Marc Forgione in his first title defense next Sunday night against Chef RJ Cooper. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out my recent interview with the newest Iron Chef, Marc Forgione HERE.
Photo courtesy of the Food Network.
