Ming Tsai & Maneet Chauhan on The Next Iron Chef Season 3

Ming Tsai on The Next Iron Chef Season 3Maneet Chauhan on The Next Iron Chef Season 3
The Next Iron Chef returns with its third and fieriest season-to-date. Ten of the country’s most accomplished chefs bet on their skills and put their reputations on the line for the chance to join the industry’s most elite culinary society: the Iron Chefs. Hosted by Alton Brown and filmed in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York City, season three challenges the chefs’ culinary skills and mental toughness as they enter a clash of culinary titans.

The ten contestants include: Ming Tsai (Chef & Owner of Blue Ginger, in Wellesley, Mass.), Maneet Chauhan (Chef at Vermillion, in Chicago and New York), Marco Canora (Chef & Owner of Hearth, Terrior, and Terroir TriBeca, in New York), Bryan Caswell (Chef & Owner, Reef, Stella Sola, and Little Bigs, in Houston, Texas), Mary Dumont (Executive Chef at Harvest, in Cambridge, Mass.), Duskie Estes (Chef & Owner of Zazu Restaurant + Farm, Bovolo, and Black Pig Meat Co., in Sonoma County, Calif.), Marc Forgione (Chef & Owner of Marc Forgione, in New York), Andrew Kirschner (Executive Chef of Wilshire, in Santa Monica, Calif.), Mario Pagan (Chef & Owner of Chayote and Lemongrass, in Puerto Rico), and Celina Tio (Chef & Owner of Julian, in Kansas City, Mo.).

This season, the contestants battle their way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to New York, for the right to compete in the finale in legendary Kitchen Stadium. Along the way, they will be challenged to showcase important Iron Chef attributes through their food: ingenuity, innovation, resourcefulness, transformation, respect, inspiration, seduction, and honor. Host Alton Brown puts the culinary warriors through eight grueling tests that pay homage to American cuisine. Challenges include: cooking on a desert island, catching their secret ingredients in the wild, dreaming up a 5-star luxury menu and turning ordinary fair food into an Iron Chef worthy meal. The final two battle for supremacy in Kitchen Stadium in the season finale on Sunday, November 21st, at 9pm ET/PT. The winner joins the ranks of Symon, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, Mario Batali, Cat Cora and Jose Garces and launches into instant fame as a member of the Chairman’s team on Iron Chef America. The winner begins their reign as Iron Chef with a heated Iron Chef America battle on Sunday, November 28th at 9pm ET/PT.

Ming Tsai & Maneet Chauhan on The Next Iron Chef Season 3


Ming Tsai on The Next Iron Chef Season 3
More about Ming Tsai
Ming Tsai was raised in Dayton, Ohio, where he spent hours cooking alongside his mother and father at their family-owned restaurant, Mandarin Kitchen. His love of cooking — and eating — great food was forged in these early years, while also gaining valuable experience in the front and back of the house. Ming headed east to attend school at Phillips Academy, Andover. From there he continued to Yale University, earning his degree in mechanical engineering. During this time, Ming spent his junior summer at Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris. After graduating from Yale, Ming worked in kitchens around the globe. He trained under renowned pastry chef Pierre Herme in Paris and in Osaka with sushi master Kobayashi. Upon his return to the United States, Ming enrolled in graduate school at Cornell University, earning a master’s degree in hotel administration and hospitality marketing. Ming continued to learn varied styles of cuisine, holding positions in the front and back of the house at establishments in Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and Santa Fe. In 1998, Ming opened Blue Ginger in Wellesley, Mass., and immediately impressed diners from Boston and beyond with the restaurant’s innovative East-West cuisine. In 2008, Blue Ginger expanded with a feng shui-inspired addition doubling its size, creating three private dining rooms and the casual-chic Blue Ginger Lounge, serving an Asian tapas menu that features Ming’s Bings: Ming’s take on the classic Asian street food xiar bing, a cross between a dumpling and a slider. Ming is also the host and executive producer of the public television cooking show SIMPLY MING.

In addition to Ming’s restaurant, television and print endeavors, he’s also a prolific designer and product developer. For the past decade, Ming has used Kyocera Advanced Ceramic cutting tools. His Blue Ginger line of East-West meal solutions launched in Target and SuperTarget stores nationwide in 2000 and has continually expanded. Ming co-designs with TruBamboo, an eco-friendly line of bamboo cutting boards and serve ware. The sushi boards, satay plates and various cutting boards are available at grocery and home stores across the U.S. In 2009, Ming teamed up with Kellogg’s to create his Blue Ginger® Multi-Grain Brown Rice Chips, currently available at club stores across the nation.

Maneet Chauhan on The Next Iron Chef Season 3
About Maneet Chauhan
As executive chef of Vermilion in New York City and Chicago, Maneet Chauhan is at the helm of executing the provocative melding of the Indian and Latin cuisines of Vermilion, based on both deep historical and geographical cross-influences. The cuisine is inspired jointly by Maneet’s ongoing research, trials and zest for experimenting and concept originator Rohini Dey’s vision and travels. Maneet’s culinary career began after she graduated from the top of her class at the WelcomGroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, India’s top culinary and hotel management school. She then interned at India’s finest hotels and kitchens, including the Taj Group, Oberoi Hotels and Le Meridian. Maneet has attended the foremost culinary school in the country, The Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, where she graduated with high honors and swept all awards of her batch.

Miracles by Norwegian Recycling

Miracles by Norwegian Recycling
Part Asian mashup artist Norwegian Recycling (aka Peter Bull) released a sick mashup entitled Miracles. He takes samples from these artists:

1. Bruno Mars – Just The Way You Are
2. B.O.B. feat. Bruno Mars – Nothing On You
3. Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
4. Britney Spears – Hit Me, Baby, One More Time
5. Jason Derulo – In My Head
6. Justin Timberlake – My Love
7. Lady Gaga – Just Dance
8. Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
9. Ne-Yo – So Sick
10. Michael Jackson – Black Or White
11. Snoop Dogg – Sexual Eruption
12. Survivor – Eye Of The Tiger
13. Taylor Swift – Fifteen
14. Taylor Swift – Fearless
15. Savage Garden – The Animal Song
16. Snoop Dogg feat. Justin Timberlake – Signs

and fuses them to a whole new song. It’s pretty catchy and uplifting. You can also download it FREE here.

Miracles by Norwegian Recycling

Ms. Issippi by Singindork888

Ms. Issippi by Singindork888
Singindork888 (aka Gerald Ko) dropped a new original track “Ms. Issippi”. It’s dedicated to the people who are missing someone. You just want to say “I just need you but you’re not around” to that special someone.

Listen to some of his other original songs This Christmas and Flowers in a Window

Ms. Issippi by Singindork888

Lyrics to Ms. Issippi by Singindork888

I don’t want more iced tea
I don’t need no pepper in my salad
I just need you but you’re not around
I don’t go to the movies
I stare at the ceiling lyin in bed
I just need you but you’re not around
Miss pretty miss universe, miss beautiful smile
Mississippi may miss isssipi
But I, I miss you, miss you

I don’t need no summer breeze
I don’t need a jacket for the winter
I just need you but you’re not around
I don’t need no antifreeze
I don’t need to call the operator
I just need you but you’re not around
Miss pretty miss universe, miss beautiful smile
Mississippi may miss issipi
But I, I miss you,

Mississippi may miss issipi
But I, I miss you,

Just the Way You Are by Legaci

Just the Way You Are by Legaci
It’s been awhlie since we heard from Legaci, The group has been touring with Justin Bieber since they released a cover for his song Baby. Backstage at one of their concerts, the guys of Legaci put together a new video of them singing Bruno Mars’ Just the Way You Are. Here’s more from them:

So we finally found some time to put together a full video for yall. We want to thank you all for being so patient with us. For those who still don’t know, we’ve been on tour with Justin Bieber, and we’ve found that tour life keeps us really busy. We haven’t had time to do consistent videos, but hopefully from here on you’ll hear from us every few weeks.

For our comeback song, we wanted to cover Bruno Mars’ “Just the Way You Are.” We’re huge fans of Bruno Mars and his songs (we cover them in our acapella medley that we use in JB’s concert.) He’s bringing some good quality vocals back to radio and we totally respect that. Also, we got hundreds of requests for this song, so we had to do it!

We’re looking forward to see what these guys have up their sleeve after the Justin Bieber tours.

Just the Way You Are by Legaci

Brenda Song talks about The Social Network

Brenda Song talks about The Social Network

The movie with the biggest buzz this weekend is “The Social Network“. Brenda Song plays Christy Ling in the film. She sheds her Disney image for a much edgier role than you’ve seen her int he past. Check out the interview with Brenda Song talking about her time on the set and the cast. Here’s more about the film:

Every age has its visionaries who leave, in the wake of their genius, a changed world – but rarely without a battle over exactly what happened and who was there at the moment of creation. In The Social Network, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin explore the moment at which Facebook, the most revolutionary social phenomenon of the new century, was invented — through the warring perspectives of the super-smart young men who each claimed to be there at its inception. The result is a drama rife with both creation and destruction; one that purposefully avoids a singular POV, but instead, by tracking dueling
narratives, mirrors the clashing truths and constantly morphing social relationships that define our time.

Get tickets to The Social Network at Fandango or movietickets.com.

Brenda Song talks about The Social Network

The Social Network trailer

Mondega interview with channelAPA.com

Mondega interview with channelAPA.com
channelAPA.com got a chance to site down with Mondega about his new album “For The People.” We talk to him about how he got into music, the positive message he wants to send out with his music, and more. (He was influenced by Thai now at 454 Life Entertainment.) He’s got a bunch of music videos coming out. Be sure to checkout Stand My Ground and Listen To My Song. Cop his album.

Mondega interview with channelAPA.com