The Great Food Race

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The Great Food Race
Genre Reality television
Cooking show
Created byJulie Christie
Story by
  • John Hagen
  • Julie White
Directed byGraham Richie
Presented byZoe Marshall
Judges
  • Leonardo Bresolin
  • Lorenzo Bresolin
Country of originNew Zealand
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes13
Production
Executive producers
  • Greg Heathcote
  • Ashley Coupland
ProducerAnna Lynch
Editors
  • Aaron Dolbel
  • Julian Dyson
Running time90 minutes
Production company Eyeworks
Original release
Network TV3
Release2 February (2014-02-02) 
27 April 2014 (2014-04-27)

The Great Food Race is a New Zealand competitive reality television cooking show. It premiered on 2 February 2014 on TV3. The show is hosted by Australian Zoe Marshall and is judged by brothers Leonardo and Lorenzo Bresolin.

Contents

The series is similar to and a mixture of the format of MasterChef New Zealand and The Amazing Race whereby contestants compete in weekly elimination challenges while travelling New Zealand (and in a later leg, internationally).

The series was filmed at Studio West in West Auckland. [1]

Series overview

StartFinishWinnerRunner-up
3 February 201427 April 2014Libby & ElliotSara & Danny
No.TitleOriginal air dateNZ viewers
(overnight)
1TBA2 February 2014 (2014-02-02)149,950
2TBA9 February 2014 (2014-02-09)166,040
3TBA16 February 2014 (2014-02-16)131,290
4TBA23 February 2014 (2014-02-23)N/A
5TBA2 March 2014 (2014-03-02)158,020
6TBA9 March 2014 (2014-03-09)105,520

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References

  1. "Our Story". Studio West. Retrieved 29 April 2023.