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Japanese food TV: beyond Iron ChefPosted Feb 27th 2006 2:01PM by Nick VagnoniFiled under: Far East, Television/Film, Trends, NewspapersToday's Washington Post features a pretty interesting piece
about food-related television shows in Japan. Apparently food television takes up 35-40 percent of all domestic
programming there. Of course, Iron Chef is usually the first thing that springs to most of our minds. But, according to
the WaPo piece, the grandeur and zeal that many of us associate with Iron Chef is commonplace on many food-related
shows. Apparently gratuitous food shots (food porn, if you will) are just as popular over there as they are here,
perhaps more so. On the show Which Dish?, one commentator responded to a shot of sizzling salmon fat with "I have
never seen such a beautiful thing before," says the Post. The hosts of that show are pictured here.
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