{"id":96788,"date":"2022-04-28T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/how-a-top-chef-contestant-with-long-covid-19-competed-without-his-taste-or-smell\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:45:00","slug":"how-a-top-chef-contestant-with-long-covid-19-competed-without-his-taste-or-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/how-a-top-chef-contestant-with-long-covid-19-competed-without-his-taste-or-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"How a &#8216;Top Chef&#8217; Contestant With Long COVID-19 Competed Without His Taste or Smell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A chef suffering from long COVID-19 didn\u2019t let his lack of taste and smell prevent him from competing on \u201cTop Chef Houston.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI woke up one day and all my taste and smell was gone,\u201d Jackson Kalb said.<\/p>\n<p>Kalb would have to face the ultimate challenge of cooking well without the two important senses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s mostly based on instinct,\u201d Kalb said.<\/p>\n<p>He also says he couldn\u2019t tell if anything was good before presenting to the judges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerrified is the best way to put it. I still don&#8217;t know how some of that stuff tasted like,\u201d Kalb said.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes he\u2019d have a fellow contestant try something he prepared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMostly when I was testing with the other chefs it was to kinda see, \u2018Hey is this seasoned enough?\u2019\u201d Kalb said.<\/p>\n<p>And when he suspected his team was going to lose, he revealed the bombshell news to his teammates that he had COVID-19 a few weeks before shooting began, and his taste or smell hadn\u2019t come back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of this weight on my shoulders and this burden. And I didn\u2019t like hiding that from these people,\u201d Kalb said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chef suffering from long COVID-19 didn\u2019t let his lack of taste and smell prevent him from competing on \u201cTop Chef Houston.\u201d \u201cI woke up one day and all my taste and smell was gone,\u201d Jackson Kalb said. Kalb would have to face the ultimate challenge of cooking well without the two important senses.\u00a0 \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":96789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/How-a-Top-Chef-Contestant-With-Long-COVID-19-Competed-Without.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}