Winners! Iron Chef America Super Battle: Filipina White House Executive Chef Comerford & Chef Flay
Filipina White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford and renowned chef, restaurateur, and TV personality Bobby Flay defeated Mario Batali and Emeril Legasse by only 5 points in the Michelle Obama special-guest-hosted Iron Chef America Super Battle held at the White House Sunday, Jan 3rd, 2010. The winners receive $25,000 to contribute to the charity of their choice. (See why the White House approached the Food Network about this opportunity. Hint: Sustainability, healthy eating)
Renowned English food writer, journalist and broadcaster Nigella Lawson was a judge along with actress Jane Seymour, and Olympic Gold medalist, Natalie Coughlin (who is part Asian-click on her name to see her intriguing gene mix!)
Videos of each team presenting their dishes to the judges and the winner announcement are below. The dishes are mouth watering and beautifully crafted. Definitely worth the viewing. The cauliflower gratin is most likely the one dish I could recreate. Flay’s recipe! Woot!
I was a bit confused about the results because the judges seemed to highlight more of the Batali/Legasse team’s dishes in the final judges’ comments. In viewing both teams’ presentation videos, however, the judges had more accolades for the Comerford/Flay dishes than they had for those of the Batali/Legasse team. Video editing aside, I’ll give the point system the benefit of the doubt. It was only a five point spread after all. ALL the dishes looked beautiful. I would be a judge in that battle anytime. YUM!
(Tumblr “followers” must go to permalink to see videos. Top right corner of the dash post. Tumblr, will embeds ever be made available on the back end? Sigh…)
L to R: Flay, Comerford, Brown, First lady Obama, Batali, Legasse [via]
Comerford and Flay pick “secret ingredients” from the White House Garden [via]
Iron Chef America Super Battle Intro
Comerford & Flay Presentation (Sorry bout the quality folks. Will update with better quality vids when made available)
Batali & Legasse
Iron Chef America Winners
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Sources: WSJ, Washington Post, The Food Network
