The AP reports that D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams travels today to New York to serve on the three-judge tasting panel at tonight’s taping of an episode of the Food Network’s Iron Chef America. Back in October, Williams was a member of the local tasting panel that picked former Signatures chef Morou to compete in the nationally televised cooking competition over Washington food luminary Ris Lacoste (formerly of 1789) and Ristorante Tosca’s Cesare Lanfranconi. Tonight, the one-named Morou will again have Williams in his corner as Morou faces off against a yet-to-be-named Iron Chef in hopes of gaining the people’s ovation and fame forever.
Williams — who proclaimed to this DCist back in 2001 that the long-departed Fuzio was his favorite restaurant in Washington — will no doubt enjoy the dishes prepared by Morou and the Iron Chef. But the mayor may have motives for heading up to New York other than judging the competition…
