Iron Chef America is headed to Washington D.C.! Food Network stars Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse will travel to the White House to take part in a very special competition in Super Chef Battle, a two-hour episode of Iron Chef America. They will be greeted by none other than First Lady Michelle Obama. She will, in fact, be the one to reveal the “secret ingredient.” The chefs will be joined by White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford and receive their challenge: Create a meal for America using The White House Kitchen Garden’s produce as their secret ingredients.
“We are honored to showcase The White House Kitchen Garden in Iron Chef
America,” said Bob Tuschman, Senior Vice President, Programming and Production for Food Network. “This is the most intense culinary competition we’ve ever shown. It’s awe-inspiring to see what four master chefs can create from locally-grown ingredients in the heat of Kitchen Stadium.”
The White House Kitchen Garden was created early in the Obama administration and measures approximately 1100 square feet and is located on the west side of the South Lawn. The four-season herb, fruit and vegetable
garden features 75 varieties of seeds planted in slightly raised beds using
succession planting methods. Cultivated by White House staff and volunteers, produce from the garden and honey from the adjacent beehives are available to the White House Chefs for preparing meals for the First Family and for official functions, and all extra food is donated to Miriam’s Kitchen, a soup kitchen near the White House.
The special episode premieres Sunday, January 3rd at 8pm ET/PT.
If you watch NBC’s The Biggest Loser, you saw the beautiful garden, the White House kitchen, and even two of the First Family’s chefs on last night’s episode. They created a fresh salad with vegetables and herbs from the garden that left all of us craving a bite.
I can’t wait to see what the Food Network Chefs cook up! Can you imagine how excited they must be?
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