Iron Chef

Don’t try to share your food!

Tonight is the night...four top local chefs will compete in the first annual "Market Masters: A Market Chef Showdown," an Iron Chef type competition, at the Downtown Market, and it will be loads of fun.

I've written about famed Chef Mario Batali, and his love of northern Michigan.  He, along with Tim Allen, is turning out to be a great salesman for Michigan. He's grabbed the Pure Michigan campaign by the horns with a talk about what he loves about the Great Lakes state...

We're so proud of West Michigan.  A little bit of heaven, many say.  Okay, the economy needs some heating up, more jobs need to be created, but all-in-all, considering what's happening in the rest of Michigan, we're in a pretty good place.  Especially when you think of food. We have some superior restaurants here in Grand Rapids, but as you travel around Michigan, up north, for example, you find s