When cooking became sport
What did we gain (and lose) when we turned the kitchen into a coliseum?
Not very long ago, a reality TV casting producer invited me to appear on a guest judge panel for an episode of a new Netflix reality TV cooking competition. A scheduling conflict prevented my participation, but my brief interaction with the casting producer underscored the unrelenting ubiquity of televised cooking competitions, whose cultural saturation…
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