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The Great British Baking Show Needs a New Judge
Paul and Prue are legends, sure, but their tastes have gotten a bit stodgy.
While The Great British Baking Show doesn’t mirror United States food media — to its general benefit — the idea that an established chef wouldn’t know the flavor of gochujang is hard to grasp. That Hollywood and Leith haven’t been as inundated — as, say, a Brooklyn-based, potluck-attending type may have — with gochujang roast chicken is not entirely unsurprising but a sign that TheGreat British Baking Show ’s judges have fallen out of pace with the general eating public. (Hollywood, especially, was keen to describe vegan sausage rolls he did enjoy as “buttery” — as if to suggest a dish made without butter should aspire to a butterlike flavor rather than its own thing) There’s a frustrating binary to the use of “untraditional” ingredients as it stands now on GBBS: Different can either be tremendous and winning or strange and bad, and it’s impossible to predict whether a big swing will befuddle or delight.
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