The trainee chefs, Nigella and her co-stars are mentoring will have to try and impress guest chef Richard Corrigan with their finest prawn cocktail in the show next Tuesday.
And it looks like Nigella’s out to impress too, with the 54-year-old star wearing a form-fitting, curve-enhancing beige dress on the show.
Bellissima! Nigella has pulled out all the stops
with this glamorous outfit for the second episode of The Taste, set to
air next week
With her dark brunette locks gently curled and hanging loosely around her shoulders, the mother-of-two shows off her famous figure in the dress.
With episode one of the American show bringing in under 2million viewers in England, the British star will be hoping for more attention next week.
Nigella took to Twitter before the airing of episode one, saying: ‘New twitter profile pic in honour of @channel4 #thetaste tomorrow 9pm - although I will be in (hopefully) sunny Spain for it!’
The team: Nigella and her team are hoping to win the new cooking competition
After a busy couple of months it looks like the TV cook is taking a well-earned break while her TV show gets off the ground.
Although she was in Spain as the first episode hit our screens, Nigella was watching from her villa abroad.
She tweeted: ‘Hope you're ready for @channel4 #thetaste NOW! Greetings from Spain.’
But if Channel 4 had hoped that Nigella Lawson's notoriety would lead to high ratings for the UK debut of her show The Taste, they would have been sorely disappointed on Tuesday night.
The show drew in just 1.8million viewers, and a 7.5 per cent audience share, with three other programmes attracting more people tuning in.
Not so successful: Nigella Lawson's show The Taste failed to draw in the viewers upon its UK debut on Tuesday night
ITV's The Crimes That Fooled Britain drew 2.6million viewers and a 10.7 per cent audience share, while 2.3million tuned in to watch Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother.
In fact, the only show that The Taste beat in the ratings battle was BBC Two's Stargazing LIVE, which just 1.7million people tuned in to watch.
Leading the way: Sheridan Smith and David Morrissey's The 7.39 lead the ratings
Still popular: Celebrity Big Brother was another of the shows that beat The Taste in the ratings battle
The Channel 4 show, described as a cross between The X Factor and The Voice for food, has been hugely successful in America.
In the first round, the judges (Nigella, American food writer Anthony Bourdain, and French chef Ludo Lefebvre) sit with their backs to the competitors and recruit them to their ‘teams’ assessing them by sampling a solitary spoonful of the contestants’ food.
‘This is a cookery competition like no other,’ Bourdain elaborated. ‘It’s not about presentation, reputation or technique. We’re judging you on taste alone.’
It's got all the right factors: The Taste had fantastic judges and a nifty format
The judges sit in another room with their backs
to the contestants like The Voice, before meeting them after they had
made decisions 'blind'
