No bluffing right here — Meals Community’s sport present Wildcard Kitchen is an ace within the gap.
In Season 2, which premiered on January 7, High Chef finalist and collection host Eric Adjepong offers out playing cards for his chef buddies after-hours within the community’s underground kitchen for 3 rounds of what they name “culinary poker.” The gamers should create scrumptious dishes primarily based on the playing cards they’re given (some good, some downright diabolical) that decide all the things from the dish to the instruments used and the way a lot time they should create it. On prime of that, the cooks wager their very own private cash on who will serve up the most effective plate. Every chef brings a minimum of $5,000 to the desk — typically as much as $10,000. Speak about turning up the warmth!
The January 21 episode, dubbed the “James Beard Brawl” options what Adjepong calls an “epic showdown” between just a few of the celebrated award’s previous winners: Iron Chef Stephanie “The Goat” Izard (who took dwelling $9,000 throughout her Season 1 go to), Match of Champions’ Jonathon Sawyer, and “Boston’s Queen of Pasta” Karen Akunowicz. “The meals on this episode is unimaginable and trash speaking is even higher,” teases Adjepong, who’s trying ahead to a fair larger sophomore season. “Wildcard Kitchen is the one present on the community that sees cooks in a lighter, but nonetheless aggressive mode, and I believe it’s the proper late-night mannequin.”
The very best half for Adjepong, who focuses on West African delicacies and can be pushing his debut cookbook Ghana to the World in March, is what number of cooks need to be dealt in for future rounds of the present. “What’s been most shocking is what number of extra cooks have heard about my poker sport [since the first season premiered] and now need in,” he says. “I’m getting messages from cooks throughout the nation who need just a little motion.”
For now, Season 2 is full of extra cool culinarians. Different well-known foodies hustling in embody: Alex Guarnaschelli, Rocco DiSpirito, Andrew Zimmern, Michael Symon, Esther Choi, Marcel Vigneron, Molly Yeh, amongst others, in addition to a secret trio of Wildcard winners returning to boost the stakes.
Wildcard Kitchen, Tuesdays, 9/8c, Meals Community