The Chairman took over last week with his BKS posting, so we missed TWICH. Since I didn’t want to forget any battles, we make it up now with Last Week in Iron Chef History.
This week in Iron Chef history, April 12 – April 18.
- 214 (4/15/1994) – Bamboo Shoot – Chen vs. Munetaka Takahashi
- 315 (4/14/1995) – Flounder (Karei) – Ishinabe vs. Tomoyuki Sawaguchi (Did not air on Food Network, but see below.)
- 416 (4/12/1996) – France Special – Lobster – Sakai vs. Pierre Gagniere
- 514OA (4/18/1997) – Bamboo Shoot – Sakai vs. Shinzo Okunuma
- 612 (4/17/1998) – Spanish Mackerel – Chen vs. Mitsuro Harada
- 714 (4/16/1999) – Tomato – Kobe vs. Franco Canzoniere
Last week’s episodes included: Chen in one of the oldest FN episodes, Part 2 of the France Special, one of our ICC episodes, and a memorable Italian battle with Kobe vs. Canzoniere.
The Flounder battle (315) never aired on Food Network. I do have some very short, very low quality video from that battle. The videos were on the Iron Chef Kitchen Stadium Tour disc for the Sega Saturn. The two videos are in a .zip file and are in .CPK format. I was able to play the videos using the VLC Media Player.