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By JULIETTE ROSSANT The New York Daily News's Amy DiLuna filed a fun report on her visit to the set of the Food Network's new Spring 2005 show Iron Chef America and anticipates an exciting show based on the "pressure, passion, perspiration and real-life blood and guts" she saw during taping. There stood Mario Batali, hacking off the head of a live fish as he raced against time and his adversary, Puerto Rico's Roberto Trevino. Names newly associated with the show include judges Jeffrey Steingarten of Vogue and Soledad O'Brien of CNN's American Morning. (See previous entry "Iron Chef: America vs. USA".)