Food Network's 'Iron Chef' returns

NEW YORK, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The Food Network's New York "Iron Chefs" Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto and Cat Cora are taking on new challengers for the Kitchen Stadium title.

Season four production is set to begin Oct. 6 and will air in February 2007, a news release said.

Challengers include Chris Cosentino, David Myers, Graham Elliott Bowles, Jose Andres, Tony Liu, Michael Carlson, Ben Ford, Andrew Carmellini, Tim Love, Robert Gadsby, Peter Kelly, Todd Richards, Marc Murphy, Mary Dumont, Lynn Crawford, Kurt Boucher, Alexandra Guarnaschelli, Charles Clark, Mark Tarbell, Fortunato Nicotra and Linton Hopkins.

Scoring the chefs' culinary skills will be the usual panel of celebrity judges.