1) I have skipped the last few weeks because, honestly, as I was writing the second episode column I realized that it wasn’t particularly interesting because, as I mentioned in the first column, I got a sneaky suspicion that this whole thing was a set-up to get Amanda Freitag on to the show. Look, [...]

1) With Cat Cora on lesbian maternity leave, Mario Batali kinda fired, and Michael Symon still behind both of them on the depth chart — the chairman decided it was high time to fill the ranks with a new Iron Chef. The latest incarnation of this show gives us five chefs from NYC, two [...]