Food Network will present "Super Chef Battle: An Iron Chef America Event," in which contestants from the show will participate in a major battle at the White House, Jan. 3, 2010, at 8 p.m.

Using produce from First Lady Michelle Obama’s White House gardens, Iron Chefs Bobby Flay and Mario Batali will be joined by Emeril Lagasse and White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford in a special kitchen conflagration.

Alton Brown will host the battle, in which the chefs will be split into two teams: Flay and Comerford versus Batali and Lagasse.

— Allison J. Waldman