![]() So is it any wonder that Lawson, presently emerging from her own personal drugs-related nightmare, invited him to join Team Nigella? ![]() Kawakami opted to prepare elegant comfort food: deconstructed bacon fried rice, topped with a fried quail’s egg. ![]() The judges each picked a team of four, based on that bite, to go forward to a series full of food-based challenges. The series began on Thursday night with amateur cooks and pro chefs competing to prepare a single bite of food to whet the appetites of Lawson and her fellow mentor-judges – chefs Anthony Bourdain, Ludo Lefebvre and Marcus Samuelsson – in a blind taste test. Lawson is both a co-host and executive producer of The Taste, which, depending on your televisual palate, is either a high-concept fusion of complementary cuisines (The Voice on a bed of mashed MasterChef, drizzled with a Hell’s Kitchen reduction) or an over-seasoned stew of mismatched ingredients. “I’ve been able to prove to myself that I’m a strong person and I can’t be beat down.” “Cooking really helped me pull my life together,” Jeff said, over the sensitive background Muzak. ![]() ![]() The first contestant to appear on the season premiere of Nigella Lawson’s US food talent show The Taste was Jeff Kawakami, a 32-year-old chef from Los Angeles, who quickly revealed that he had overcome a drugs problem in order to pursue his career in the kitchen. ![]()
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