Perhaps you don't drink as much caffeine as I do, so you are able to fall asleep at a decent hour, say 10:00 PM. If that's the case, then you probably haven't noticed that the usual 11:00 PM broadcast of the original Japanese Iron Chef has disappeared from the Food Network.
I have looked all over the web for information, but nothing has turned up as to why. Only that it's gone.
Now I am not going to sugar-coat my distaste for the new Iron Chef America. Sure, I love that Alton Brown in the host, and the old Chairman Kaga's "nephew" is pretty hot when he does all that martial artistry, but I am not particularly fond of the show. Sure, I realize that the original Japanese version was completely contrived, but at least they pretended like it truly was a challenge. On Iron Chef America, it's just so...boring. And what happened to ingredients that would flop around on the stage like live eel, and creations like...seabass mousse?
At least the Food Network replaced the 11:00 time slot with Good Eats, which other than Paula Deen is just about the only thing I can watch now, but is little consolation for the loss of the brocade caped, leather glove-clad, Liberace of a Chairman, Kaga.
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