Creating a cooking competition from scratch
from Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV Hosted by reality blurred's Andy Dehnart
On this week's show: America’s Culinary Cup and Padma Lakshmi’s dream of shaking up the cooking competition genre. Did it work? And how did it come together? I have insight from Padma and its showrunner. I also have reality TV recommendations for you, and stick around to the very end for life advice from reality TV, this time from Padma herself. Plus: Why this show has a new name! Mentioned 2026 New Voices AMPLIFY Creators 24 in 24's Ikea set location My America's Culinary Cup review Why Padma Lakshmi didn’t want blind judging on America’s Culinary Cup Iron Chef America is fake, in case you didn't know Recommendations Couples Therapy (Showtime and Paramount+) The Comeback (HBO Max) Extra Hot Great episode 613: Iron Chef S03.E23: Squid Battle (from Dan Cassino) Credits Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV is copyright 2026 by Reality Blurred LLC. Find me at realityblurred.com or andydehnart.com Our theme song is “Cheery Monday” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License.
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