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How did TV cooking competitions get so big?

The Food Chain

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Iron Chef and the Great British Bake Off

The Great British Bake Off changed the game for cooking competitions, says Tasha Arundt. It was a show that really kind of fought against this idea that this is a professional arena where you have to kill or be killed," she says. Food television has been at the forefront of introducing different kinds of cooks and different kinds of traditions - it's important because food television had been almost exclusively white and Western European in terms of its representations.

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