Home Textiles Today - New York, NY, USA - Town & Country Living is cooking up some new kitchen textiles and table linens with licensing partner Food Network, with the launch of the Iron Chef America collection and the expansion of the Rachael Ray collection.

The Iron Chef America collection, based on the cable network’s primetime program series set stadium style, comprises oven mitts, potholders, grippers, kitchen towels, aprons and other accessory pieces.

Town & Country said each item “has something special about it” intended to make cooking for the user easier, faster or more fun.

The line is scheduled to ship this summer.

The Rachael Ray collection is being spiced up with

Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago, IL, USA - Tickets go on sale Monday morning for food celebrity Alton Brown's March 15 lecture at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Brown, a Food Network personality and self-proclaimed "food explorer," will addresses the basic connection between the foods we eat and the scientific principles that govern them. The one-hour lecture starts at 11 a.m. in the museum auditorium; a 30-minute audience question and answer session follows. Brown will be available to sign books until 2:30 p.m.

Brown created and hosts the show "Good Eats" and hosts "Iron Chef America," both airing on the Food Network. His talk is being held

Modesto Bee - Modesto, CA, USA - I've been a fan of "Iron Chef America" for about a year and a half. I've caught up with some of the older episodes in reruns and savor every new battle the Food Network airs.

So I was tickled to learn that Doctors Medical Center Foundation plans an "Iron Chef"-style competition fund-raiser at Modesto Centre Plaza in April. What a great idea.

I'm such a devotee of the cable TV show that when the Food Network aired a competition over the summer looking for "The Next Iron Chef," I was all a-twitter, rooting from the couch for my favorite -- the chef

PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY,USA - This has been quite a year for Chef Gavin Kaysen of El Bizcocho Restaurant at the Rancho Bernardo Inn.

Fresh from competing at the prestigious Bocuse d'Or in France, an appearance on the "Today Show" and being named one of Food and Wine magazine's Best New Chefs for 2007, Kaysen has now been selected to compete on the Food Network's new reality series, "The Next Iron Chef."

The show is currently in production, and eight top American chefs will compete for the title of the next "Iron Chef." The other Iron Chefs are superstar chefs Mario Batali, Cat Cora, Bobby Flay and

MovieWeb - USA - The title of Iron Chef is synonymous with the world's foremost culinary masters; and with the announcement of eight finalists, Food Network has begun production for The Next Iron Chef, the newest reality competition created to identify the next master to join the existing exclusive club of superstar chefs Mario Batali, Cat Cora, Bobby Flay and Masaharu Morimoto. Representing some of the nation's best culinary talent, the finalists will battle for the chance to be crowned the next Iron Chef America. Hosted by Alton Brown (Good Eats, Iron Chef America), The Next Iron Chef will premiere Sunday, October 7th at

PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA - The title of Iron Chef is synonymous with the world's foremost culinary masters; and with the announcement of eight finalists, Food Network has begun production for The Next Iron Chef, the newest reality competition created to identify the next master to join the existing exclusive club of superstar chefs Mario Batali, Cat Cora, Bobby Flay and Masaharu Morimoto. Representing some of the nation's best culinary talent, the finalists will battle for the chance to be crowned the next Iron Chef America. Hosted by Alton Brown (Good Eats, Iron Chef America), The Next Iron Chef will premiere Sunday, October 7th at