the article i wish i hadn't read...

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I guess this wasn't anything I didn't already know, or hadn't assumed over time, but it does take some of the glamour of the show of which I've been a devotee for entire adult life. Only read if you don't mind knowing that Iron Chef is bogus. Still enjoyable to watch. And Robert Sietsma, the Jonathan Gold of the East, is a darn GENIUS.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0808,iron-chef-boyardee,302520,1.html