Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
MasterChef (Denmark, 2015) is a competitive cooking series in which celebrity chefs put a group of home cooks through a series of challenges and elimination rounds, aiming to turn one amateur into a culinary master. If the format keeps you watching, you're drawn to the pressure of high-stakes judging, the gap between everyday skill and professional standard, and the gradual narrowing of a large field down to one winner.
Film
The Kitchen: World Chef Battle
A chef leads his team to Sochi for a world championship to prove they're the best in the world.
Film
Cook-Off!
Amateur cooks from across the country compete for a million-dollar prize in a national food competition.
Film
Le Grand Chef
A disgraced chef enters a culinary contest to restore his name and win a legendary knife.
Film
Le Chef
A veteran chef fights to keep his restaurant's Michelin star after the new CEO tries to engineer its loss.
Film
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Europe's greatest chefs are murdered one by one in the manner of their own signature dishes.
Game
Cooking Fever
Practice cooking skills across 11 unique locations and settings under time pressure.
Game
Cooking Simulator
A realistic kitchen simulation using real equipment and lifelike ingredients in a restaurant setting.
Game
Automachef
A resource-management puzzler where you design and program automated restaurant kitchens.
Book
The new best recipe
Over 1,000 rigorously tested recipes with step-by-step tutorials and equipment ratings from America's Test Kitchen.
Book
The New Making of a Cook
A handbook covering every preparation and cooking technique worth knowing, from knife skills to roasting.
Book
Cooking for Mr. Latte
A food columnist's New York Times pieces weave recipes, restaurant opinions, and her own courtship story.
Series
MasterChef
Gordon Ramsay fronts the US competitive cooking series putting home cooks through elimination rounds.
Series
MasterChef
Spain's take on the competitive cooking reality format, adapted from the original British series.
Series
MasterChef Brasil
Brazilian amateur and home cooks compete across elimination rounds for the MasterChef title.
Series
MasterChef India
India's version of the competitive cooking reality series, putting home cooks through the same challenges.
Series
MasterChef
The UK original — amateur cooks duel for the right to be named MasterChef UK Champion.
Series
MasterChef Celebrity
Celebrities swap their day jobs for aprons in Spain's competitive cooking format.
Other national editions are a natural next step — MasterChef Brasil, MasterChef India, and the Spanish MasterChef Celebrity all follow the same elimination format with local flavour. The Gordon Ramsay-fronted MasterChef (2010) is also a direct companion.
Le Grand Chef follows a disgraced chef competing to win the knife of Korea's last royal chef and restore his name. Le Chef puts a veteran cook against a restaurant CEO who is trying to strip the establishment of its Michelin star so he can install a younger molecular gastronomy specialist.
Cooking Simulator puts you in a realistic restaurant kitchen with actual equipment and dozens of ingredients. Cooking Fever tests your speed and skill across eleven distinct locations, from fast food to oyster bar.