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Tastemade’s “Struggle Meals” grows up
Frankie Celenza returns with a season about wasting less, improvising more and redefining what it means to struggle
Published July 2, 2026 10:55AM (EDT)
About three years ago, Frankie Celenza says he ran out of ideas.
The Emmy Award-winning chef had just completed nine back-to-back seasons of his popular Tastemade show “Struggle Meals” — a concept that was born out of his time as a student at NYU, hoping to teach other students how to eat and cook well while living on a budget — and says he didn’t know where to take the show next. The well of inspiration had run dry; a problem he sees with many food creators in the era of fast-paced social media and instant gratification.
“It seems like the really big food creators were doing recipes, and now they’ve run out of recipes and they’re doing other stuff,” says Celenza.
He notes that’s not necessarily a bad thing (he ran out of ideas, too), but he views “Struggle Meals” as his “life’s work,” and he wasn’t going to give up completely for a case of........