Tag: Joe
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MasterChef Behind the Scenes: Meet Rebecca
This is Rebecca O’Connor. She is a full-time author and has published 12 books, everything from fiction and short stories to manuals for bird owners and scientific works on endangered animals. Rebecca is also a professional bird trainer, and has been a presenter at many of the country’s finest animal shows, including Disney’s Animal Kingdom. …
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MasterChef 4 musings: Howard’s End
I was in such a tizzy yesterday after my negative and cynical blog that I didn’t give Howard the fair farewell I give other contestants. I’m sorry about that, Howard. Howard’s exit was not mandated by the judges. He stood up there next to Lynn, the two bottom dishes in the challenge. And the judges…
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MasterChef 4 recap: Baby Eels and Agnolotti (S4E9)
(PLEASE NOTE: This blog is not approved or endorsed by MasterChef or Fox, and you probably shouldn’t read it. The opinions contained in this blog are merely the OPINIONS of a former MasterChef contestant who has no inside knowledge of how this season was produced.) So our magical time machine transports us back from the…
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MasterChef 4 recap: Firefighters and Benedicts and the Return of Walmart (S4E7)
(PLEASE NOTE: This blog is not approved or endorsed by MasterChef or Fox, and they would probably you rather not read it. The opinions contained in this blog are from a Season 2 competitor who witnessed the filming of virtually every episode of that season, but I have no inside knowledge of THIS season of…
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MasterChef recap: The Season 3 Finale
(Please Note: The opinions contained in this blog are only that…uneducated hyperbole from my brain, and they may have absolutely no basis in reality. While I was on Season 2 of MasterChef, I have no inside information about how Season 3 is produced or judged, and my opinions should not be treated as fact.) We’re…
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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…
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MasterChef 3: Don’t Trifle with Walmart
Today’s blog entry is brought to you by Walmart, a proud sponsor of MasterChef. (Just kidding! Ha ha ha… But please note that my blog is in no way endorsed or approved by either MasterChef OR Walmart, and my opinions expressed herein are ONLY OPINIONS. I have no inside knowledge of the production of MasterChef,…
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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,…