It’s time for another pre-Food Network episode for your viewing pleasure.<\/p>\n
The challenger entered the field of cooking at the age of 18 and studied classic French cuisine for 12 years.\u00a0 He first encountered California Cuisine while working at Spago in Rappongi. He was personally trained by the legendary Wolfgang Puck at Spago in Los Angeles<\/a>. He returned to Japan as a California Cuisine expert and opened his own restaurant in 1995.\u00a0 As of late 2006, he was still leading the kitchen at <\/a>Rellenos<\/a> Sugawara<\/a>.<\/p>\n What makes this episode a rare and special treat for current Iron Chef fans is that it comes from the time before Iron Chef was aired on Food Network. It was recorded from one of the local stations broadcasting the show. (In fact, it still has the local commercials intact.) It is in Japanese WITH English subtitles. I know you will enjoy being able to experience this rare episode not shown in North America in over 10 years.<\/p>\n There are two options for viewing this episode. The pop-up player will use the usual divx encoded file. This smaller, lower quality file can also be downloaded directly using the \u201cDownload File\u201d option. Also in the download menu this time is an option to download a higher quality VOB file (approx. 1.3GB). (You can play the vob file in VLC Player<\/a>)<\/p>\n