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Iron Chef Japan Season 1 Episode 2

Broccoli Battle

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AIRED: 3/13/98

Kobe vs. Mario Frittoli
Annie Feolde, the perfectionist, was a female chef in the 70's who combined French and Italian cooking techniques. Iron Chef Kobe was her apprentice. Angelo Paracucchi was also working to revolutionize Italian cooking. His star pupil, Mario Frittoli, is a master chef and today's challenger.
These 2 students of Italian masters will face off in battle broccoli.
Guests (in booth):
Yutaka Enatsu (Baseball Commentator)
Chizuru Azuma (Actress)
Guests (joining them at the judge's table):
Shinichiro Kurimoto (Lower House Member)
Asako Kishi (culinary Critic)moreless

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Interesting but typical

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By brandi1leigh, Apr 08, 2007

This episode was a little bland when compared to other episodes. Broccoli as a theme ingredient didn't lend itself to anything particularly innovative (with the exception of broccoli ice cream from the challenger).

Production tried to add some excitement to the episode by promoting a personal rivalry between the two chefs, but even that comes off a little tame. The two do exchange some trash-talk, but when their words are quoted they each appear more surprised than fired up.

It's not a bad episode, but it is a little bland.moreless
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Kaga Takeshi	Chairman Kaga
Chen Kenichi	Current Iron Chef Chinese
Kobe Masahiko	Current Iron Chef Italian
Fukui Kenji	Commentator
Hattori Yukio	Color Commentator
Shinichiro Ohta	Sidelines Reporter

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Shinichiro Kurimoto	Himself/Judge	Recurring Role
Asako Kishi	Herself/Judge	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (1)
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- Unlike most battles, the Iron Chef is predetermined before the battle begins. The challenger is not given the opportunity to "choose" an Iron Chef, instead it is announced that he will be facing Kobe. This sets up the battle of "the apprentices."
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QUOTES (1)
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- Chairman Kaga: Two young and eager virtuosos of Italian cuisine. For these men, I have chosen a green vegetable that symbolizes spring in Italy.
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NOTES (2)
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- The Fine Living Network's alternative production number for this episode is FLIRN-102.
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- An alternative title to this episode is "Pasta Revolution".
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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- Yukio Hattori: Broccoli actually belongs to the cabbage family.
  Kenji Fukui: We are family.
  
  Kenji sings the first line from the 1979 Sister Sledge song of the same name.
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