Eat. Race. Win.
Positive messages, impressive efforts in fun foodie series.
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Eat. Race. Win.
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A Lot or a Little?
The parents' guide to what's in this TV show.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Eat. Race. Win. is a documentary series about a team competing in the Tour de France bicycling race, and the chefs who keep them well-fed on their 21-day tour. The series is pleasing to the eyes, interesting, and full of positive messages: Both chefs and cyclists throw themselves into their tasks, pushing themselves to the limits to succeed. The show is largely free of issues that will concern parents: no sex, no drugs, and language is confined to an infrequent "hell" or bleeped "f--k." The only violence is rider injury: We do occasionally see a rider falling, flipping, sliding, or crashing, and the damage injuries can do to a rider's career is underlined.
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What's the Story?
For the cyclists competing in the annual Tour de France, the order of the day is EAT. RACE. WIN. But for Chef Hannah Grant, the battle is about giving the Australian Orris-Scott elite cycling team the right fuel to keep them going. As the cyclists travel 2,200 miles around Europe in a grueling 21-day competition, Hannah and her team create a daily menu that gives the cycling team the calories -- and the heart -- its members need to stay in the race.
Is It Any Good?
This series lights all the burners, succeeding as a cooking show, a behind-the-scenes look at a Tour de France team, and a workplace drama all at once. Viewers who don't already have an interest in cycling may balk at watching a docuseries about the sport, but though Eat. Race. Win. does run through a lot of cycling terminology and methodology, cycling soon emerges as more like a framework around the show's real challenge: How to keep nine hungry athletes and their attendant crowd fueled both physically and emotionally.
As Grant points out in the first episode, there are two Tours de France: the one everyone knows, and hers. As the Tour de France team cycles over 3,500 kilometers (that's 2,200 miles for Yanks), Grant and her team have to shop and cook on the run, the movable kitchen taking the form of two food trucks that follow the athletes, the shopping in eye-pleasing markets and on beautiful farms around Europe. It's a big job, exactly the kind of thing that's fun to watch from a comfy couch. You can't taste the lamb shoulder or goat cheese bruschetta, but watching Grant and company churn it out, and the hard-working team make it disappear, is delightfully entertaining.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about competition. Does your family enjoy sports? What can be learned from matching your skills against a competitor's? What lessons do you learn from winning? From losing? What makes a good competitor? Why is sportsmanship important? How does competition come into play in Eat. Race. Win.?
How do Grant and her team and Orris-Scott team members demonstrate courage, perseverance, and teamwork on the race? Why are these important character strengths?
Does Hannah Grant defy stereotypes in her role? If so, to what degree? Would a woman have been a private chef for a team of athletes 20 years ago? 50 years ago?
TV Details
- Premiere date: July 29, 2018
- Cast: Hannah Grant, Matthew White
- Network: Amazon Prime Video
- Genre: Reality TV
- Topics: Cooking and Baking
- Character Strengths: Perseverance, Self-control, Teamwork
- TV rating: TV-14
- Last updated: February 27, 2022
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