https://www.saltshaker.net/20150514/masterchef-returns-to-argentina Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Sat, 03 Jul 2021 14:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.saltshaker.net/20150514/masterchef-returns-to-argentina#comment-268494 Sat, 03 Jul 2021 14:31:27 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=14931#comment-268494 […] When Masterchef came to Argentina I wasn’t impressed. Neither were a whole lot of other people. I wrote a fair amount about it back when it aired for two seasons in 2014 and 2015. This year they brought it back as a “celebrity” version, with local stars from the theater, television, music, and sports world. I didn’t have high hopes, just because of the past two seasons, and because celebrity versions of these shows are usually worse than the regular ones. And, in some ways, this was too – early on, when the folk who were there simply because they were stars, or really, mostly, has-beens, but couldn’t cook a microwave dinner, were on. But they got eliminated quickly, and it turned out there were quite a few who were actually pretty damned good cooks… […]

]]> https://www.saltshaker.net/20150514/masterchef-returns-to-argentina#comment-260362 Thu, 24 May 2018 14:10:03 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=14931#comment-260362 […] the above mentioned santurzana, a salsa verde, and the uniquely Argentine roquefort sauce (pretty much an abomination, created at some point in this country’s past, no doubt to mask the off flavors of fish that […]

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