Show about border food stops in Texas

Celebrity chef and cookbook author Claudia Sandoval will take viewers on a food-filled journey along the U.S.-Mexico border in the new series “Taste of the Border” set to release Thursday on the streaming service Discovery+. The adventure starts in her native San Diego and ends in Texas with stops in McAllen and South Padre Island.

In a trailer for the new show, Sandoval can be seen eagerly eyeing a delicate dish of fried Texas softshell crab over a bed of corn finished with finely sliced vegetables served by chef

Walter Greenwood at his restaurant F&B on South Padre Island. In the episode, she also samples venison in South Padre, and red snapper and frog legs in McAllen.

“All around this planet, there are border cities just like mine where you might see a wall or a checkpoint. I see a culinary experience waiting to be discovered,” Sandoval said in the trailer.

Other episodes include Sandoval trying chilaquiles and bone marrow tacos in San Diego, vegan Mexican fare in Tucson, Ariz., and suckling pig mole in Monterrey, Mexico, and Chinese food in Mexicali, Mexico.

Sandoval also visits multiple farms in the series, including a date and fig farm in San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico, and a chile farm in Hatch, N.M.

All four episodes of the show will be released Thursdsay at discoveryplus.com and on the streaming service’s mobile apps.

Sandoval rose to fame as the winner of the competition cooking show “MasterChef ” in 2015. The win netted her $250,000 and the rights to publish her cookbook, “Claudia’s Cocina: A Taste of Mexico.” She has gone on to serve as a judge on “MasterChef Latino.”

Getty Images file photo Chef Claudia Sandoval, right, seen on “MasterChef Latino” in 2019, is host of “Taste of the Border.”