Kristen Kish on Reviving 'Iron Chef' and Why She Prefers Hosting Over Competing (Exclusive)
15.06.2022 - 16:49
/ etonline.com
in 2012, Kristen Kish has become a fixture in the culinary world as well as on TV thanks to her longtime success in the kitchen and, more recently, as one of three chefs featured on TruTV's cooking competition show, . Now, Kish is teaming up with Alton Brown to co-host Netflix’s revival of, the famed Japanese cooking competition series. Although “the original is iconic in its own way,” Kish tells ET that when “you put it on Netflix, it just becomes bigger.
It becomes grander.” But just because there’s “more bells and whistles,” she adds, “it doesn’t get in the way of the original DNA of the show.” Dubbed, the streaming platform has increased the stakes of the competition by introducing the chance for a challenger to be named the first-ever Iron Legend. Each week, various challengers face off with a different Iron Chef in a reimagined Kitchen Stadium as they create a flawless tasting menu that also includes that episode’s secret ingredient. This installment’s world-renowned culinary masters include Curtis Stone, Dominique Crenn, Marcus Samuelsson, Ming Tsai and Gabriela Cámara while chefs Mason Hereford, Curtis Duffy, Claudette Zepeda, Esther Choi, Gregory Gourdet, Mei Lin and Yia Vang attempt to earn their way into the winner’s circle. While Kish has dominated cooking competitions in the past, her immediate response to hearing about Netflix’s revival was, “I’m not cooking because I can’t.
My anxiety can’t handle that anymore,” she says. So, if she wasn’t going to compete, that only left two spots on the show: judging or hosting. And it wasn’t long before Kish got the call that she'd be sharing the stage with Brown, who has presented past iterations of the cooking competition on Food Network.
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