Tag: reality TV
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Guest Post: Do Food Shows Have Ethical Obligations?
My supremely cool fan Josh O’Connor, who interacts often on my blog posts, got to thinking about the issues of food waste, and the treatment of reality TV contestants with dietary restrictions, after one of my recent MasterChef recaps where many dozens of eggs were thrown in the trash, as well as shattering the plates…
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Masterchef 4 Recap: Mini-Judges and Noodle Soup (S4E21)
Once again, hello, Starr-struck citizens of the internet! Since Ben Starr is partaking in his annual pilgrimage to Burning Man, I am doing a temporary takeover of his blog in order to write the MasterChef recaps that so many of you are so fond of. For those of you that don’t know me, my name…
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Masterchef 4 Recap: WP-24 and Calamari (S4E20)
Hello, Starr-struck citizens of the internet! Since Ben Starr is partaking in his annual pilgrimage to Burning Man, I am doing a temporary takeover of his blog in order to write the MasterChef recaps that so many of you are so fond of. For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Michael…
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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…
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A Post-Masterchef Perspective
I have just spent the past 5 hours reading a fraction of the 949 tweets, 549 emails, and 1752 Facebook messages that have been posted in the 300 minutes since MasterChef finished airing on the East Coast. (Update, as of 11pm August 10, about 24 hours after the show has ended, my email inbox has…