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November 12, 2007–The Next Iron Chef is… Michael Symon!

Last night, Symon took home the world’s most coveted culinary title in a head-to-head swordfish battle over fellow finalist John Besh.

Symon was gutsy enough to make a swordfish dessert.

Symon was selected as…

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On Sunday, November 4, Chris Cosentino (Executive Chef and Owner, Incanto, San Francisco) was the sixth chef to be eliminated from The Next Iron Chef leaving Cleveland’s own Michael Symon and boy-of-the-bayou John Besh from New Orleans left to battle it…

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NEW YORK, October 29, 2007 On Sunday, October 28, Aaron Sanchez (executive chef and owner, Centrico and Paladar, New York) was the fifth chef to be eliminated from the The Next Iron Chef Food Network’s new reality series that will award one…

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On Sunday, October 21, Gavin Kaysen (Executive Chef, El Bizcocho at the Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, CA) and Morou Ouattara (Executive Chef, Farrah Olivia, Alexandria, VA) became the third and fourth chefs to be eliminated from the The Next…

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Last Sunday was the first of a series of competitions in which eight chefs had to jump through and unfortunately Ms. Jardins of San Francisco was voted out of the kitchen. Apparently the judges deemed her cake too dry and her salad…

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