Friar Street Kitchen: MasterChef – Global Gauntlet Is the Culinary World Cup Nobody Knew They Needed

Early on in MasterChef: Global Gauntlet, around the second episode, it becomes clear how ambitious the whole thing is. Gordon Ramsay is pacing the kitchen floor like a man who genuinely doesn’t understand why someone would under-season a broth. There are twenty home cooks, four regions of the world, and one trophy. The American MasterChef franchise’s 16th season is attempting something the show hasn’t really done before: it’s asking its contestants to prepare meals for a larger audience in addition to themselves. Their way of life. Their ancestry. Their region of the globe.

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