TheSnackHound

I noticed that between the original Iron Chef and Iron Chef America, Chef Morimoto started wearing eyeglasses in Kitchen Stadium.  It could be that his vision changed, or he was tired of wearing contacts.  I just think that the producers or the costumers didn’t think regular eyeglasses would befit the super hero-like, almost cosplay costumes the Iron Chefs wore.  They just weren’t shazam enough.

Now, Morimoto sports some specs that seem to me to be a modernized version of the authentic 1950s half horn rim like so:

 I am not sure whether all celebrity chefs have stylists, but most chef glasses have leaned to the more studious than tha shazam. Take Alton Brown.  His glasses are more Buddy Holly than Elton John.

I found a few candidates for the old Iron Chef show on the Zenni Optical website. The staff of the Clark Howard show ordered glasses from the site for one and all (but not for me because I don’t know them).  They seemed to be pretty satisfied with their $8.00 frames, so it got my mind on the subject.   These would have been slightly more apropriate, I think, with the outer spacey looking shapes.  I would have said the silver, of course, to match his Kitchen Stadium silver costume.

What do you think?  There are other choices aplenty, but colorwise, and because they were just a little bit different, it would be my selection if they were ever to change the concept of Iron Chef back into a costume pageant.

Our new friend over at Mom Most Traveled is giving away a ruffled vintage inspired cupcake apron by Carolyn’s Kitchen. Who would have thought full length, frilly, girlie aprons would come back in style, considering how unisex things are these days. Actually, I take that back. It really has never gone out of style, and women are demanding it.

Full length aprons are something I should start wearing again for two things. I tend to be the person who is very careful, though inherently accident prone, and I have a penchant for coincidentally wearing white jeans when I decide to have grape juice or chocolate syrup. You know…the one spot that never seems to come out? Also, there is more motivation to pull out some stick-to-it-iveness in putting the right clothes on for a job.

The apron comes with a set of matching gloves for the ubercoordinated. How do you win? It is very simple to enter, just go check out the blog and leave a comment. You must mention an apron style that you like that was not mentioned in the blog posting. And that’s it!

Contest ends July 6th at 9 PM CST.  In otherwords, that’s tomorrow, if the date stamp on this blog posting patches the day you are actually reading this entry.

The whole “tomorrow” thing wouldn’t apply if you are in Australia, as it is already tomorrow from where you are reading.  Therefore, it would be a little over 26 hours from whatever time/day/century it happens to be where you are.

I should have also stated the year….it is currently 2008 A.D (Anno Domini).    Yes, I still like to use the recently out of favor “Year of Our Lord” rather than this A.C.E. and B.C.E. crappola that all the sudden creeped up on us, that despite being a former “almost majored in classics in college” student, I didn’t get that memo.   (B.C.E: ‘before current era.”  Unless it really means “Before Christ’s {physical} Entrance” but I doubt it).

I won’t get into the whole Julian Calendar/Gregorian Calendar/How that Equates to Chinese New Year and how much time until the end of the contest if you are living somewhere on the Moon.

Translation: Go check it out, but hurry!