Courtesy of Food Network When it comes to sacrificial lambs, Chef RJ Cooper doesn’t fit the mold of “easy prey.” But tonight at 10 p.m., Cooper will be the first challenger to go up against the Food Network’s newest Iron Chef, Chef Marc Forgione. After winning the third season of the reality contest The Next Iron Chef, Forgione, specializing in modern American cuisine, now joins six other Iron Chefs in Kitchen Stadium. Unfortunately, “Iron…

Image courtesy of woolennium Dish of the Week: Kimchee jigae Where: Adam Express, Mandu The swine flu appears to be aggressively making its way around town, and it sounds like it’s going to hit a lot more people before they are able to get the vaccine. I, too, am riding the snot rocket to hell. But in addition to chicken soup, I recommend kimchee jigae. Kimchee jigae is a stew made with pork stock,…

With D.C.’s record standing at 2–2 in Kitchen Stadium – a win and a loss against Bobby Flay and Masaharu Morimoto each – Sunday night’s Thanksgiving-themed episode of Iron Chef America pitted Agraria’s head chef Ricky Moore against the Chairman’s newest Iron Chef, Michael Symon. From the beginning, the odds seemed stacked against Iron Chef Symon, who felt the pressure to earn his first victory after having won the Next Iron Chef competition. Add to…

Good morning, Washington. It’s hot again out there today, with highs expected in the upper 90s, and folks in the city are understandably getting a little hot under the collar. Take Duane Stillions, who ABC7 reports was attacked by a pit bull on July 4 while walking his two small dogs. One of his dogs, Molly, a ten-pound Bichon Frise, is hospitalized in intensive care at a cost of $1,000 a day, and Stillions is…

This post from new DCist contributor, Matt Cordell How do D.C. chefs stack up? Last night, representatives were put to the test when José Andrés (owner of Zatinya, Café Atlantico, Jaleo, Oyamel, and minibar by josé andrés) and his sous chefs, Katsuya Fukushima and Ruben Garcia, stepped into Kitchen Stadium to do battle on Food Network’s Iron Chef America. Despite being advertised in advance here, here, and here (looking like the Spanish Terminator), José “chose”…

Written by DCist Contributors Gayle S. Putrich and Mike Roscoe Awards season: long gone in Hollywood; just getting started for D.C.’s restaurants. If you don’t believe us, just ask Cathal Armstrong of Restaurant Eve, Eamonn’s, and the forthcoming Majestic. Armstrong has been named a contender for two awards in as many days: Best Mid-Atlantic Chef from the James Beard Foundation on Monday and now Chef of the Year by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington….

Washington chefs fell to 1-2 in Iron Chef America competitions, as Bobby Flay defeated the uni-monikered Morou in Battle Frozen Peas last night on the Food Network show — two months after Galileo’s Roberto Donna avenged his own loss to Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. Morou — the former Signatures chef who had earned the right to take on an Iron Chef when he topped former 1789 chef Ris Lacoste and Tosca’s Cesare Lanfranconi in the…

Redskins-Cowboys. Ali-Frazier. Potter-Voldemort. Morimoto-Donna? Last night on the Food Network’s Iron Chef America, Galileo’s Roberto Donna avenged his very lopsided defeat in March 2005 at the hands of Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto by scoring a victory over his cooking rival in “Battle Squid.” Much as then-challenger and now-Iron Chef Bobby Flay surprisingly defeated Morimoto in a rematch on the original Iron Chef show after initially having been quietly humiliated by Morimoto, Donna — who did…

D.C.’s own Roberto Donna will show his face on the Today show tomorrow morning. NBC has shipped the Torino native and Galileo owner across the Pond to showcase local cuisine during the Olympics. Donna will appear as needed on Today as well as on other NBC affiliates. Check out NBC4 on Wednesday at 5 p.m. for another glimpse. Will he score a gold medal from Katie and Matt by showcasing his culinary chops? Or will…

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…