Before and after feasting I found myself craving food. I am far from underfed but I found myself binging. Yep, that was me on the right perusing the 7 pies on the Thanksgiving buffet line: cherry, apple, pear, pumpkin, chocolate, walnut and blueberry. Binging not as in an eating disorder but rather binging on a tv show, a food show, no less. I finished it over the holiday weekend.
Whether you are a foodie/not this new Netflix series is worth your while. It's called The Final Table where the winner will cook his/her heart out to share a table with 9 of the world's most famous chefs.
One reviewer summarized the show as "MasterChef and a splash of Iron Chef and add them into a pressure cooker with the annoying set of ABC’s The Taste plus American Idol‘s lighting design, and then forget to seal the pressure cooker and keep it far away from any heat source, and the resulting wet mash is Netflix’s The Final Table. "
I never got to see all of those other shows so I was impressed with this show's 24 chefs/12 pair international teams of chefs competing in creating international cuisine from the country of the week including Mexico, Spain, Great Britain, Brazil, India, USA, Italy, Japan and France. The creativity and plating are pieces of art along with the interesting participants's backgrounds and gastronomic cultural food descriptions.
To begin the elimination process three of each country's well known personalities serve on a panel of judges. These famous entertainers and a food critic choose a popular dish from their respective country which the teams will emulate. This trio will pick their favorite team and teams, leaving the 3 bottom teams to create another dish. That runoff dish is chosen by a famous chef from that county. Then, the least favorite of those 3 is goes home. After 8 countries, the last 2 teams competing will then compete as individuals for a final winner to join the Final Table with the world's top chefs.
I'm not going to spoil which foods were chosen as that's part of the excitement but you've find yourself craving some very unusual dishes/ at least wondering how they might taste...
The weakest link for me was knowing sometimes which of the different celebrities were whom. They would be announced in descriptions and then their names were provided before they were on stage. Not lots of personality drama but some.
But no matter, let me know how you liked this show.
