The Taste - New Show

zachary_l_a_n_g · January 30, 2013, 3:04pm

Anyone watching this show?

I watched the first two episodes. It’s not great, but mildly entertaining. I do like the idea of the blind tasting (not knowing who cooked it) because I’ve often felt that there is chef bias on shows like Top Chef. I am flabbergasted by Nigella’s choosing of the “chef” who made “chicken with sauce and mash potatoes”!

Jay_Carroll · January 30, 2013, 3:27pm

This show is unwatchable IMHO- and I used to like Bourdain…ugh- not anymore.

And Brian Mularkey…yikes.

John_Davis · January 30, 2013, 3:33pm

Me too…

C_Grimm · January 30, 2013, 6:04pm

It seems pretty awful - though it is only an 8-episode season, so I will likely stay with it until the end.

awilliamson4 · January 30, 2013, 6:27pm

Mularkey’s face is frightening…what the hell kind of bad plastic surgery did he get?

Bruce_Leiser_owitz · January 30, 2013, 7:38pm

How many cooking competition shows can there be on all the channels before the genre is officially over-saturated?

Bruce

Bob_Wood · January 30, 2013, 7:40pm

Two.

T_Klonoski · January 30, 2013, 9:36pm

Slowly but surely, Bourdain is morphing into the type of culinary celebrity he used to eviscerate in his writings.

John_Webber · February 1, 2013, 4:05pm

Bourdain #sellout

Marshall_Gelb · February 1, 2013, 8:19pm

I, unfortunately, have to agree with the last two posts. Disappointing, but I guess the paycheck is simply too tempting.

Cheers!
Marshall

K_e_v_i_n_B · February 8, 2013, 4:48pm

caught a few minutes of this show… dreadful, seems like it was thrown together very quickly on a major shoestring budget… sets, camera / video quality, everything just seems low quality… disappointed in Bourdain for this…

Danny_M_a_z_z_a · February 8, 2013, 5:42pm

Can’t stand Bourdian, nor Top Chef. Both haven’t been good in years.