This year the best home cooks in Canada
will be serving up the most incredible food any MasterChef competition has ever
seen. They’re regular people, but they cook extraordinary food.
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| Regular people ...Extraordinary food! |
Television
show MasterChef is quite a rage among Indian viewers. And with Master Chef
Canada Season 1 set to start premiere on 4th March on TLC, it promises to be
the most challenging yet. TLC has been entertaining audiences for many
years now and thus the anticipation around MasterChef Canada is very high. The
winner has a tough time set out for him or her, but the rewards will be great:
up for grabs are $100,000 and of course the title of Canada’s first MasterChef.
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| Left to right Chef Michael Bonacini, Demon Chef Alvin Leung & Chef Claudia Aprile |
CHEF ALVIN LEUNG
‘Demon
Chef’ Alvin leung with his trademark blue-streaked hair, cross earrings, and
ground-breaking tactic to the gastronomic art, is the enfant terrible of Hong
Kong’s dining scene. His creations at Bo Innovation featuring unique ‘X-treme
Chinese’ cuisine elicit admiration from critics and the public alike and for
good reason; they’re unique in concept and execution – quite simply, you won’t
find anything else quite like it anywhere! The decor at his restaurant
showcases Alvin’s philosophy about food; it should be fun, textural, appealing
to the eye and above all else taste great. It isn’t a wonder it has retained
its three Michelin stars for three straight years in 2015
CHEF MICHAEL BONACINI
One
of the forerunners of fine dining in Canada Celebrity Chef Michael Bonacini is
still going strong. His 11 unique and innovative restaurants which he co
owns under the Oliver & Bonacini Restaurants umbrella in Ontario offer an elegant neighbourhood feel
that strikes the right balance between meticulous service and friendliness –
the sort of restaurant that every foodie wishes they could have at the end of
their road. Having sautéed, cooked and grilled out his route by doing what many
of the ultimate chefs in the world have done in their early careers, knowledge
by doing, and achieving an extent of familiarity in the process. Bonacini spent
his adolescence assisting out with the family-run hotel business, where he
well-educated the ins and outs of the hospitality industry.
CHEF CLAUDIO APRILE
Passionate
about cuisine from an early age, Uruguay born Chef Claudio Aprile who grew up
in Toronto gained diverse experience throughout celebrated kitchens across the
globe. Bali Sugar in London got him outstanding reviews as a young executive
chef. His formative years, working under perhaps some of the world’s finest
chefs helped groom his style and concepts of cuisine. 2001 saw Claudio
returning to Toronto, where he joined Senses and again carved a niche for
himself with his innovative use of experimental cooking techniques which focuses on freshness, the use of local
ingredients and most importantly feeds the customer and not only impresses them
with theory. Today Claudio Aprile is the owner and creative force behind the
growing Order fire Restaurant Group, which includes Toronto’s acclaimed Origin
brand restaurants.
A combination of all three will offer the necessary drive to hopefully make it as a chef. From the sounds of it there are a few contestants who discover these qualities so it’ll be interesting to see who they’ll be throughout the competition through a gruelling series of mystery box, pressure test, and team challenges.
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| Challenges ...yet fun galore! |
WHAT CAN YOU LOOK FORWARD TO?
How
does this sound…. a Stress Test, where contestants prepare a stunning chicken
dish with only one pan and one burner? Or Sample this on one of the episodes
…..The 11 finalists facing an emotional Mystery Box challenge that takes them
back to their roots with the theme of nose to tail of Alberta beef? Will the
home cooks who get assigned tongue and brain be fatally undermined?
Expect
much anticipation, joy, tension, and victory. The anxiety of pressure tests,
the despair of eradication rounds, the hope of immunity, and the drill of a
team challenge; these will make MasterChef one of Canada’s best
television shows.
The show will launch many food careers and over the
season we too will learn so much more about food, cooking and about reality
television.
Speaking of judgement, Alvin, Michael and Claudio will
provide proficiency and compassion to challengers while smearing high industry
standards when evaluating the work of the amateur cooks. Food, comes full
circle, and MasterChef Canada aims to settle down to showcase exactly what
makes people happy and full, and the endeavour is to keep a good part of the
show dedicated to that.
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| Will I be Canada's first Master Chef? |
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| Some win some lose |
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| Hard task master ...but hey that's how the learning happens! |
MASTERCHEF CANADA will premiere on 4th March and will air Friday to
Sunday at 8 PM, on TLC.
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