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Michelle Obama welcomes ‘Iron Chef America’

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Michelle Obama’s White House garden is having quite a week.

The garden played a starring role in Tuesday night’s episode of ‘The Biggest Loser,’ and today Food Network announced it will also take center stage in a special episode of ‘Iron Chef America.’ Chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse go to D.C. where they will be greeted by the First Lady and joined by White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford for a Super Chef Battle.

The chairman’s challenge: Create a meal for America using The White House Kitchen Garden’s produce as their secret ingredients. The episode premieres Sunday, January 3rd.

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According to Food Network, the chefs will be allowed to use anything found in the White House Kitchen Garden to help them create their meals. It will be Flay and Comerford against Batali and Lagasse. Each team must come up with five dishes that showcase their garden fresh ingredients and best represent ‘the ultimate American meal.’

The judges include: chef and best-selling cookbook author Nigella Lawson; Olympic gold medalist Natalie Coughlin; and actress, author and designer Jane Seymour.

--Rene Lynch

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