It's a tough dilemma when one chef forces another to choose between cooking with canned chicken or forfeit half their cooking time. Then, two chefs battle the cutthroat kitchen ball and chain when they are forced to share knives and tools. And in a climatic culmination, one chef has big problems with a tiny kitchen.
Guy Fieri rolls out for great foreign flavors: Scandinavian cooking at a place in Chicago, from meatballs with lingonberries to house-cured gravlax; Middle Eastern favorites at an old drive-in in Arlington, Texas, from falafel to pilaf; and authentic Mexican cooking in Guy's home town, Santa Rosa, Calif., from homemade tacos to sopas.
In this holiday battle, three chefs representing Food Network, Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, Robert Irvine and Ted Allen, go head-to-head against three chefs representing Cooking Channel, Iron Chef Michael Symon, Nadia G. and Ben Sargent. The judges for this Food Network vs. Cooking Channel battle are Anthony Anderson, Aaron Sanchez and Bobby Flay.