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This Sunday, Chef Aaron Sanchez, author of La Comida del Barrio – Latin American Cooking in the USA, will challenge Iron Chef Morimoto in the Food Network’s latest episode of Iron Chef America.

If you’ve never heard of this show, basically it’s two chefs pitted against each other. At the beginning of the show, the chairman will unveil the secret ingredient, which must be used in all dishes prepared by the chefs. They have 1 hour to prepare about 5 courses, and then the food is judged. The Food Network has 3 Iron Chefs which represent “the best of the best” and each new episode, a challenger chef comes to try and take the glory. This week the challenger is Latino chef Aaron Sanchez.

Sanchez is the son of “Mexican cooking authority” Zarela Martinez. He has two restaurants, one in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Paladar, and Mixx in Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel.

You can catch Sanchez & Martinez in Tucson on November 6 at the Tuscon Culinary Festival.

The Morimoto/Sanchez episode of Iron Chef America airs for the first time Sunday, October 23, 9:00 PM on the Food Network.

Psychic Mystic Rebecca predicts: The secret ingredient will be a type of chile or some sort of seafood. Morimoto will take the win.

Aaron Sanchez website (decent info, but hasn’t been updated in probably at least 6 months)
Iron Chef America episode info