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MasterChef Canada: Meet the Vancouver and B.C. finalists for Season 2
A recording artist from Vancouver, a concrete contractor from Surrey and a public relations officer from Richmond are among the 49 finalists wanting to trade their day job for a chance at winning top...
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MasterChef Canada Season 2, Ep. 2 recap: Road to sweet 16 leads to ‘patriotic...
“Cook like your life depends on it. Because in this competition, it does.” Those were the “Demon Chef” Alvin Leung‘s words in the intro to the second chapter in Season 2 of MasterChef Canada, in a...
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MasterChef Canada Season 2, Ep. 5 recap: The Wrath of Cody
Every week I recap the latest chapter in MasterChef Canada Season 2, looking mainly at our B.C. contestants. After we lost Richmond’s Debra Pangestu in last week’s pressure test, it was time for the...
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MasterChef Canada Season 2, Ep. 6 recap: Attack of the Killer Potatoes
Poutine. Is there a more quintessentially Canadian dish? I’m such a fan of the Quebec culinary staple that I once went on a week-long binge testing out some of Vancouver’s most “authentic” spots for...
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MasterChef Canada Season 2, Ep. 7 recap: Cake oddity
The stakes were layered high in this week’s MasterChef Canada episode, the seventh of the second season, which saw one more contestant go home and the reveal of the Top 10 finalists. Would our fearless...
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MasterChef Canada Season 2, Ep. 8 recap: Red wedding and tart takedown
Last night’s MasterChef Canada episode was a bloody massacre. Not one but two contestants were sent home, including one B.C. Top 10 finalist I did not expect to be taken down so early. It all happened...
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MasterChef Canada exit interview: Cody Karey
As we recapped earlier today, Vancouver’s Cody Karey was the first Top 10 finalist from B.C. to be eliminated in this season of MasterChef Canada. I gave Karey a call to ask him about his experience on...
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MasterChef Canada Season 2, Ep. 10 recap: Redemption junction
Did we start doing exit interviews too fast? On the latest chapter of the MasterChef Canada Season 2 saga — and saga is the appropriate word here — three eliminated home cooks surprised everyone by...
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MasterChef Canada exit interview: Jon Hameister-Ries
The big guy is gone. Vancouver’s Jon Hameister-Ries was the latest contestant to be eliminated in Sunday night’s insane-o episode of MasterChef Canada Season 2 that also saw eliminated contestant Cody...
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MasterChef Canada Season 2, Ep. 12 recap: Out of the frying pan and into the...
One of the main criticisms I’ve heard levelled against MasterChef Canada is that its judges aren’t as compelling characters as their American counterparts. Sure it’s tough to match personalities as...
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MasterChef Canada Season 2, Ep. 14 recap: It takes two (semi-finals) to tango
We’re one week away from crowning the winner of MasterChef Canada Season 2. How far have we travelled? As this week’s show so aptly recapped in its opening segment, we went from 50 contenders down to...
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MasterChef Canada Season 2, Ep. 15 recap: David is Goliath
A few episodes of MasterChef Canada ago I began to have a sneaking suspicion that the strongest competitor in the Season 2 bunch was Surrey concrete contractor David Jorge. The other contestants were...
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