Ben Starr

The Ultimate Food Geek

Tag: 2011

  • MasterChef: One Year Later

    Today is February 2, 2012.  Exactly one year ago on this day, I flew to Los Angeles to film MasterChef.  It was a cold day and Dallas was buried under a foot of ice.  A storm-of-a-century had descended on Texas the day before, and I awoke at 4am in hopes that I’d be able to…

  • Christmas Special is Posted!

    My Christmas special which was filmed at the Kenmore Live Studio in Chicago has been posted!  It’s 35 minutes long…keep in mind that we had a strict 10 minute time limit for each segment, so the “finished product” is rarely perfect!  Enjoy!

  • Happy Halloween!

    It’s Halloween!  My favorite day of the entire year.  I loved Halloween as a kid, but because our parents strictly forbade us from eating candy, we had to donate all our candy to the church food pantry each year.  Trick-or-treating was about the activity itself, not about the candy at the end.  (Though, I confess,…

  • Burning Man: Initial Thoughts

    I am back in Los Angeles from the Burning Man festival.  As usual, I return from Burning Man (which we “burners” refer to as the “real world”) to the “default world” (the world we all live in on a dailcamp potluck at Burning Many basis) and have trouble assimilating back into said “default world” because…