Former 'Iron Chef' contestant speaks out on health threat lurking in restaurants everywhere: 'We don't even think about it'

Former 'Iron Chef' contestant speaks out on health threat lurking in restaurants everywhere: 'We don't even think about it'

People often talk about microplastics in food, but we often don't consider all the plastics used throughout the cooking process. Former "Iron Chef America" contestant Edward Lee spoke to Bloomberg about the restaurant industry's reliance on plastics. "It's not necessary," he said. "It's just that it's so convenient and it's so prevalent and it's everywhere that we don't even think about it." Lee's new fine dining restaurant, Shia, opened last No…