Japanese food TV: beyond Iron Chef

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Feb 27th 2006 @ 2:01PM

Today's Washington Post features a pretty interesting piece about food-related television shows in Japan. Apparently food television takes up 35-40 percent of all domestic programming there. Of course, Iron Chef is usually the first thing that springs to most of our minds. But, according to the WaPo piece, the grandeur and zeal that many of us associate with Iron Chef is commonplace on many food-related shows. Apparently gratuitous food shots (food porn, if you will) are just as popular over there as they are here, perhaps more so. On the show Which Dish?, one commentator responded to a shot of sizzling salmon fat with "I have never seen such a beautiful thing before," says the Post. The hosts of that show are pictured here.

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Tags: asia, food porn, food television, FoodPorn, japan, programming, washington post, which dish

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2-27-2006 @4:14PM L. said... Iron Chef got all the international fame, but it`s the unsung cooking shows that used to hook me every time. I used to fantasize about working for one of the shows that went all over the country, sampling the local delicacies of every region.

And there was one show where celebrities recalled food they`d had and loved and couldn`t remember where it was from, and contestants searched the city and tried to find it.
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