Ben Starr

The Ultimate Food Geek

Tag: Tanya

  • Burning Man 2012: The Pilgrimage

    If you’ve been following me since my season of MasterChef aired last summer, you know how fanatical I am about the Burning Man festival.  Trying to describe this event is practically impossible.  Each summer 60,000 people from all over the world assemble on a dry desert lake bed in northern Nevada and build a city…

  • MasterChef: Bunnies and Pizza Stones

    (Please note that the following blog entry reflects my own opinions and is NOT endorsed or approved by MasterChef.  I have no inside knowledge of how eliminations are made or how food is judged, either for my season or the current one.  My opinions should not be treated as fact.) So we’re down to 11,…

  • MasterChef 3: Food Trucks and Tortellini

    All throughout my season, we kept waiting for the food truck challenge.  Food trucks were all the rage throughout the country last year, and we just KNEW we’d have a food truck challenge.  But they saved it for this season. A few short years ago, most American’s wouldn’t be caught dead eating at a food…

  • MasterChef Season 3: Auditions

    So I’ve been on the road for the past 3 weeks, and I missed the original airing of the MasterChef auditions.  After a frantic arrival back in Dallas with barely enough time to cook for FRANK on Saturday, I finally had time to sit down and get caught up before the show airs tonight! The…