Author: Ben Starr
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MasterChef 3: Top 18 compete
So now we get down to the nitty-gritty…the top 18 are chosen and it’s time for them to enter the MasterChef kitchen for the first time. We get a nice product placement shot of the MasterChef Global Knives right there at the beginning. I will say that it was a treat working with the Global…
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MasterChef 3: Top 18
I actually got to watch the third episode of MasterChef season 3 relatively on time tonight. I re-learned how much I hate tweeting live…I miss half the show and have to keep backing it up. This season is very, very strange. The pace is off. It’s either going so fast you can’t keep up, or…
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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…
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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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Hawaii, part 1
A week ago, I went to Hawaii with Jennifer, Adrien, and Tracy from MasterChef at the invitation of Cristy Kessler. Cristy is an amazing and inspiration woman…her whole life she’s been plagued with serious, normally-fatal illnesses. A mere 6 months ago she was in Turkey for a controversial stem-cell transplant in a last-ditch effort to…
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Aloha, Hawaii!
This Tuesday, January 10, I leave for Hawaii with Jennifer, Adrien, and Tracy from MasterChef to help with some benefits for a couple of VERY worthy charities on Oahu. YO! House is an organization that helps support homeless youth on Oahu. It’s actually illegal to be homeless in Hawaii if you’re under the age of…