‘The Taste’ Season 2, Episode 7: ‘Good with Beer’

"The Taste" season 2, episode 7: "Good with Beer"

“The Taste” season 2, episode 7: “Good with Beer airs Thursday on ABC.

Coming up on the next, the six remaining chefs prepare meals that feature beer and also complement it well.

ABC describes the show as follows:

“One blind spoonful could change everything on ABC’s “The Taste.” This new cooking competition show is literally all about taste. Sixteen competitors, from professional chefs to home cooks, whip up dishes attempting to impress four of the world’s most notable chefs. The catch: all the dishes will be judged in a blind taste test. In this pressure-packed contest, the taste in a single spoonful can catapult a contender to the top, or send him packing. “The Taste” features no-holds-barred chef Anthony Bourdain, British food star Nigella Lawson, expert chef and author Ludo Lefebvre, and restaurateur Brian Malarkey.

“Each of the four culinary superstars and “taste” mentors – Bourdain, Lawson, Lefebvre and Malarkey – will coach a team of four competing pro and amateur cooks chosen from a nationwide casting call as they vie to create the best-tasting dish. In each episode, the groups will face team and individual challenges with a variety of culinary themes through several elimination rounds. At the end of each episode, the mentors will have to judge the competitors’ dishes blind, with no knowledge of whose creation they’re sampling, what they’re eating, how it was prepared, or whom they could be eliminating.”

“The Taste” season 2, episode 7 airs Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. on ABC.

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