{"id":838,"date":"2012-07-06T23:21:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T21:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2013-02-04T23:49:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T22:49:59","slug":"another-show-another-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/tv\/another-show-another-audition","title":{"rendered":"Another show, another audition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last December I won the third prize in a Christmas cake contest<\/a> and this got me a nice call from the casting office<\/strong> of a new French TV show about pastry<\/strong>. It will be a competition like Masterchef, but a bit less stressful. The format is taken from the UK show “The Great British Bake Off<\/strong>” of which I have seen several episodes on YouTube.<\/p>\n

Needless to say I was excited because I was offered a preferential lane to audition for the show<\/strong>! I just had to bring a cake of my choice to Marseille<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And to Marseille I went, and showed them this…<\/p>\n

\"Raspberry<\/a><\/p>\n

… a rhubarb and lemon tart with fresh raspberries<\/strong> (indecently copied from Lenotre<\/strong>, but you’ve got to start somewhere).<\/p>\n

I was very pleased with the result, and so was the lady who interviewed me.<\/p>\n

“Interviewed me”, right… as any respectable audition, there was a (filmed!) interview<\/strong> that started quite well and then degenerated with bizarre questions<\/strong>! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

I’m still not 100% fluent in French<\/strong>, but \u00e7a va, I can understand and make the others understand me: but if somebody asks you “In the kitchen, what noise would you be?<\/em>“, I assume it is legitimate to think “Did I understand well? Did she really say that?”<\/em>. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

In the end, I hesitated a bit<\/strong> with questions like this and threw some silly answers<\/strong> on the table (the questions were not that clever either), so I really don’t know how the audition went.<\/p>\n

I will have the answer in two weeks<\/strong>, fingers crossed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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