thanks. I don't recall seeing those chefs on the FoodTV reruns, just the Chinese, French, Japanese, and Italian iron chefs. IIRC, the Italian one came along later in the life of the series.
Yeah, for whatever reason, US broadcasts seem heavily focused on the later seasons. Morimoto actually came to the show after Iron Chef Italian Masahiko Kobe, and Morimoto competed in fewer battles than Michiba and Nakamura, and only two more than Kobe. Kobe died in an accident in 2019, by the way, but the other Iron Chefs are still alive AFAIK.
