The Chef's Protege (2013)

Genre

cooking show

Country

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three Michelin star chefs return to their old catering colleges to find a protégé. Each chef starts with seven student candidates and eliminates them over the series. The final three protégés compete head to head for their mentors' own judges.

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What happens

The Chef's Protege is a 2013 BBC Two television cooking series that was cancelled after one season. It was a serialized competition that followed three Michelin star chefs becoming mentors, as they return to their old catering colleges to select and train a protégé. Each chef has an initial group of seven student candidates and over the course of the series must eliminate less able candidates until they choose the one who will become their protégé. The climax of the series is a head to head competition of all three protégés where they cook for the chef's own mentors, who will judge them not only their skills as a chef, but also by how well they are able to represent their mentor's style and philosophy of cooking. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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