One week, five amateur chefs, three-course menus: week after week, the TV channel Vox shows the cooking show “The Perfect Dinner”. From Monday, five candidates from Lower Franconia will take part. Lisa Marie Riegel from Wiesenfeld will be there.
The 29-year-old comes from Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Middle Franconia), studied teaching in Würzburg and works at the Konrad-von-Querfurt middle school in Karlstadt. She lives with her boyfriend Johannes Dittmaier in Wiesenfeld. “I feel well received in the village,” she reveals. At events of the Wiesenfeld gymnastics and sports club, she likes to be in the kitchen and gets involved.
As a child, Lisa Marie Riegel liked to cook with her mum
She also likes to cook at home, often for herself and her boyfriend. “But he’s not good at cooking.” She herself had an apron and her own chef’s hat from an early age. “Even as a child, I always wanted to cook with my mum,” says the 29-year-old. When her parents later separated, she gradually took over the kitchen in her father’s household, she recalls. She prefers to bring home cooking to the table, “because that’s what I like to eat the most”.
“I’ve always loved watching cooking shows and learned a lot from them.” So she cooked better and better and registered for the “Perfect Dinner” a few years ago. It took a while before she was actually selected as a candidate.
Lisa Marie Riegel’s cooking skills can be seen on Friday at “The Perfect Dinner”.
Before she can be seen on television from 7 p.m. on Friday, four other candidates will show their cooking skills in the coming week: Yannik from Würzburg will start on Monday. Patrick from Schweinfurt, Annette and Alexander, who both live in Würzburg, follow.
After eating together, each guest rates the evening: Do you like the table decoration? Was the service adequate? How sophisticated were the dishes? And above all: Did it taste good? The competitors award a maximum of ten points each. You will find out who wins “The Perfect Dinner” and receives 3,000 euros in prize money on Friday evening after the meal at Lisa Marie Riegel’s.
She is not allowed to reveal what she has to eat in advance, only this much: Even though she comes from Middle Franconia and was crowned beer queen in 2015, she prefers to cook with wine when she arrives in Main-Spessart.
Cooking in front of strangers and the camera is more difficult than you think
“A week like this is a lot more stressful than you can imagine.” If you have to give everything again on the last evening, it is very exhausting. Even simple work steps where nothing can actually go wrong would not always work out in front of the camera. In addition, it was unusual to cook for so many discerning guests. That made her a little nervous.
Nevertheless, she likes to remember the Cooking Week. She had a lot of fun with the other candidates and of course another meeting is planned, says Riegel. She will watch the programs every evening with friends; on Friday she will even cook for you. Then the secret will be revealed as to whether she has cooked the perfect dinner.
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