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Channel 4 is looking for cooks to wow Nigella Lawson and fellow judges on their new show The Taste.
As the name suggests, it doesn’t matter if you’re a home cook, a food blogger or you work in the food industry. Experience counts for nothing; it’s all about the taste of your food.
The new channel 4 series, based on a US hit format, will see TV cook and bestselling author, Nigella Lawson and her fellow judges, American chef Anthony Bourdain and French chef Ludo Lefebvre, battle it out to find the The Taste's first British winner.
Each week, Nigella and her fellow mentors will face a collision of fiery cookery challenges, blind-taste eliminations and simmering egos as the contestants battle it out to please the palates of the professionals with just one spoonful of food. All tastings are blind so the pressure is on to make one small,