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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
It was really interesting how so many of them struggled with this particular challenge. In Top Chef they do this challenge a lot - "make a dish inspired by the moment you decided to be a chef" - and it never throws them for a loop, they just take a dish they made with their mom growing up or a dish they learned in college or whatever and make it fancy shmancy.
On this show so many crashed and burned, and I blame it on the distracting nature of the materials they had to work with. If they were allowed to use the studio instead we might have seen better work from everyone.
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I don't know, food-wise you can be quite literal for the inspiration whereas here, taking things literally is a strike against as the critics are looking for things more evocative of the feelings of those turning moments.