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The Katering Show
The Katering Show returns for another stroll through the smorgasbord of modern food trends. Kate McLennan remains the smug foodie who spends her time at her local farmers market while food intolerant Kate McCartney is still spending her days avoiding foods containing gluten, lactose, fructose, wheat, dairy, nuts, chilli or joy. At the heart of this show is the relationship between the two Kates and their very different views on food. While McLennan believes in the healing power of a healthy meal, McCartney believes none of it. And the Truth, like a prawn in a sushi roll, lies somewhere in the middle, covered in cold tempura batter and salmonella.
It's the first episode of The Katering Show Series 2 and the Kates are not coping with the pressure. Battling nervous breakdowns, they try to negotiate everyone's high expectations by creating an on-trend pop-up Ramen bar.
The Kates don teething necklaces and use their position as "New Celebrity Mums" to work through some postnatal traumas and create two recipes that take the terms "Yummy Mummy" way, way too literally.
McLennan has found a cure for McCartney's debilitating lactose intolerance. To celebrate, McLennan makes a cheese feast stuffed with dairy loaded puns and delusion; afflictions that, unfortunately, have no known cure.
McCartney and McLennan subject themselves, and a very special guest, to the latest diet torture regimes; paleo, raw food and the 5:2 diet. But which of the trio will discover the bikini body lurking deep inside?
McLennan and McCartney embrace the food philosophy of their culinary hero, Maggie Beer. The over-worked women commit a whole day to making a lamb shoulder and peddling their own verjuice substitute; Dianaberry Juice.
McCartney and McLennan create canapes for a viewer's sit down beach wedding. But when the women hit the champagne, they dish up the bride some truths that, just like wedding canapes, are served hard and cold.
McLennan and McCartney invite comedian and star of The Daily Show (USA), Ronny Chieng, into the The Katering Show kitchen. Threatened by a competent, likeable actual celebrity, McLennan heads towards DEFCON 1.
In the final episode, the Kates fulfil the dual directive of solving climate change and celebrating the end of the series by making a memory-filled Bubble'n'Squeak using leftovers from Series 2.