[Sca-cooks] Calontir Iron Chef?

[Michael Newton]

Speaking of Iron Chef's when is Calontir doing another Katheryn?

Thorbjorn
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] American Iron Chef


> In a message dated 6/25/01 5:34:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> countgunthar at hotmail.com writes:
>
> > C'mon now, do you really think Kage is a serious character?
> >  Geez, look at his outfits! He's a comic overactor fulfiling
> >  a classical role. I can think of no better actor to bring
> >  the combination of haughty/comic ability than Shatner.
>
> He is portrayed as a serious character. And the people wanted him to make
him
> look rich so they dressed him more flamboyant than Liberace. Though
Shatner
> is funny, I bet you he knows diddily about food. At least Kaga has a
little
> knowledge about it.
>
> Second, I think it would be nice to have experts in the
> cuisines being of an American culture. Mainly because we would
> probably bring in people who were actually of the culture.
> Although I think it is definately eye-opening to see "Masters
> of Italian cuisine" who are Japanese I think it would be even
> better to see "Masters of Italian cuisine" who are Italian.
> American television would be far more likely to do this than
> Japanese.
>
> All "masters of Italian cuisine" wern't Japanese in the first place. They
did
> have people around the world who were EXTREMELY skilled in their cultural
> cooking abilities. Second, they're probably the masters of such and such
> cuisine in Japan, not necessarily the world. Third, Americans are rich so
we
> can afford to bring people in from all over the world. I'm not saying
Japan
> is poor, but just economically disabled for the time being.
>
> Third, the show is supposed to be a bit over the top. I remember
> the earliest reviews of Iron Chef saying basically the same
> thing, "A show that brings the drama and deliberate kitchyness
> of Japanese Gameshows together with serious cooking."
>
> Then it actually became a serious cooking show. It gave a new twist from
the
> boring and monotonous regular cooking shows (i.e. Martha Stewart).
>
> Hate to say this, but American always copies Japan. Digimon, DBZ, Pokemon,
> and many others America brings in and tries to alter it or copy it some
how.
> I personally love Japanese anime to American anime. Looks a whole lot
better.
>
> Misha
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