Ben Starr

The Ultimate Food Geek

Tag: Season Two

  • MasterChef: Week 3

    “And the worst dish today belongs to…Ben Starr.” WHAT??? The WORST dish of the day? Well, I guess someone has to be the worst… Wait a minute…backtrack. 18 of us. From 100 finalists. From 30,000 who auditioned. That feels cool. And we enter the MasterChef kitchen for the first time, each of us thinking we’re…

  • MasterChef: Week 2

    Wow… I’m just speechless. Reliving the MasterChef experience by watching it on TV is almost as stressful as womans health info when I was actually competing. Making my signature dish is both fun and nerve-wracking.  There’s a strict time limit of 1 hour.  Not a second longer.  Luckily, my partner Christian, my neighbor Sharon, and…

  • MasterChef: Week 1

    I wake at 5am for my flight to Los Angeles to start my MasterChef journey!  I can barely open the front door to my house, though.  It faces north, and all night we’ve had ice falling from the sky.  My car is completely encased in an inch of ice…I can’t even get the key into…