History Series / TaliaInTheKitchen

%% * ThreeAmigos: Talia, Rudy and Valerie.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Debbie is mortified when she learns Frenchie cheated to help her win a cooking competition, which makes her question how often he's done this and whether she's actually a good chef. She's rude and arrogant, but unlike Frenchie she wants to win because she's actually the best, not just for the title.

* TheChosenOne: Talia seems to be the only one [[spoiler:besides Will]] who not only can use the spices but isn't affected by them in turn. In the ''Every Witch Way'' crossover Jax Novoa implies that Talia is something special, but he can't remember how exactly.

* NoEnding: Within each episode; partly this is due to the {{Telenovela}} format, partly because the credits are crammed into the bottom of the screen and there's no VanityPlate at the end. There's something like the beginning of a resolution (really, setting up the next episode) that barely starts to happen and before you know it you're ten seconds into Series/TheThundermans.

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:It turns out that Will, former sous chef to Frenchie turned Talia's sous chef, is plotting against both head chefs. Not only that, but he also has his own set of magic spices and wants Talia's as well.]]
** The food truck brothers in the second season season (or second half of the first season) [[spoiler:who as it turns out are also spice masters like Talia and Will]]

'''''Talia in the Kitchen''''' is an American teen sitcom that premiered on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} on July 6, 2015. Just like Nickelodeon's ''Series/EveryWitchWay'' (a remake of ''Grachi''), it is the American ForeignRemake of the Nickelodeon Latin American teen drama ''Toni, la Chef'' and is produced by the same Miami studio and creative staff responsible for all three of those series. Unlike ''Every Witch Way'', which premiered some time after the conclusion of ''Grachi'', ''Talia in the Kitchen'' and ''Toni, la Chef'' run concurrent of each other - they both premiered their first seasons within a few months of each other.

The series opens with Talia and her sister Julia living with their aunt Tilly in Boston, but they soon travel to Miami where the sisters will spend a month with their ''abuela'' Dolores. While there, they discover that Dolores' restaurant, ''Lola's'', has been closed due to a number of failed health inspections - and that these inspections were sabotaged by a rival restaurant across the street, ''Fuchinelli's'', run by Federico "Frenchie" Fuchinelli and his cousin Debbie. Talia becomes determined to return ''Lola's'' to its former glory and show her aunt that she has what it takes to stay in Miami as the restaurant's new head chef. In addition to Julia and Delores, she gets help along the way with new friends Rudy and Valarie, a young kid named Rocky who has a crush on Julia, and Debbie's brother Tyson who has the same for Talia herself. Also helping her are some old spices hidden behind a wall that have magical powers and can affect people in different ways depending on how they're combined. As it turns out, she's not the only one who knows of the spices or how they work - nor the only one who has a magical spice set.

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: An unusual mixed-gender variation with Talia (brunette), Rudy (blond) and Valarie (redhead).
** Debbie, Talia and Valarie in the second (half) season.
* BrainlessBeauty: Valarie. Debbie to a lesser extent.

* TheDitz: Valarie being the most obvious one, but Rudy and Debbie have enough frequent moments to qualify too.
* TheDragon: Debbie Fuchinelli to her cousin Frenchie.

* {{Expy}}: Valarie seems to be a more toned-down version of Sophie from ''Every Witch Way'', or even of Cat from ''Series/VicTORious''/''Series/SamAndCat'' (the red hair especially helps draw the inevitable comparisons).

* TheMentor: %%(Why is he a mentor?) Delores to Talia, natch.

* SecretKeeper: Valarie and Rudy keeping Talia's spices a secret to everyone else, especially Delores. [[spoiler:Except it turns out Delores already knows about the spices and was the one who hid them in the first place - in which case Valarie and Rudy keep the secret that Talia ''still'' uses the spices from Delores as she expressly forbids them, putting Delores in the awkward position of having secrets kept from her while being a Secret Keeper herself for Talia.]] Will also becomes a secret keeper for Talia [[spoiler:until it's revealed that he wants her spices for himself.]]

%% * ThreeAmigos: Talia, Rudy and Valarie.
%% * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Talia and Valarie.
%% * TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Talia, Valarie and Rudy.

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: An unusual mixed-gender variation with Talia (brunette), Rudy (blonde) and Valarie (redhead).

%% * TwoGuysAndAGirl: Frenchie, Ty and Debbie.

The series concluded its daily first season run of 18 episodes on July 30, 2015 and is confirmed to return for another 20-episode run in the fall of 2015, which is confirmed to be the second half of the season. It also shared two consecutive CrossOver episodes with ''Every Witch Way'' in the first season (concurrent with ''Every Witch Way'''s last season).

* GambitPileUp: How the Fuchinelli's plans to shut down ''Lola's'' usually turn out. [[spoiler:Then add to this Will's plans to steal Talia's spices, usually by using his own spices to manipulate Frenchie into his bidding.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Will. It turns out he's plotting against ''both'' Talia and the Fuchinelli's.]]

* NoEnding: Within each episode; partly this is due to the [[Telenovela]] format, partly because the credits are crammed into the bottom of the screen and there's no VanityPlate at the end. The next day's plot is set up and before you know it you're ten seconds into Series/TheThundermans.

* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] as the series actually takes place during the summer vacation months, but the local community center (where Frenchie teaches classes and where some of the cooking-related events take place, including the cooking competition at the end of Season 1) essentially stands in for the high school setting typical on a KidCom.

* ForeignRemake: An American adaptation of the Nickelodeon Latin series ''Toni, La Chef'' (albeit produced by the same studio with the same writers and airing concurrently with the original series).

The series opens with Talia and her sister Julia living with their aunt Tilly in Boston, but they soon travel to Miami where the sisters will spend a month with their ''abuela'' Dolores. While there, they discover that Dolores' restaurant, ''Lola's'', has been closed due to a number of failed health inspections - and that these inspections were sabotaged by a rival restaurant across the street, ''Fuchinelli's'', run by Federico "Frenchie" Fuchinelli and his cousin Debbie. Talia becomes determined to return ''Lola's'' to its former glory and show her aunt that she has what it takes to stay in Miami as the restaurant's new head chef. In addition to Julia and Delores, she gets help along the way with new friends Rudy and Valarie, a young kid named Rocky who has a crush on Julia, and Debbie's brother Tyson who has the same for Talia herself. Also helping her are some old spices hidden behind a wall that have magical powers and can effect people in different ways depending on how they're combined. As it turns out, she's not the only one who knows of the spices or how they work - nor the only one who has a magical spice set.

* TheChosenOne: Talia seems to be the only one [[spoiler:besides Will]] who not only can use the spices but isn't effected by them in turn. In the ''Every Witch Way'' crossover Jax Novoa implies that Talia is something special, but he can't remember how exactly.

'''''Talia in the Kitchen''''' is an American teen sitcom that premiered on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} on July 6, 2015. Just like Nickelodeon's ''Series/EveryWitchWay'' (a remake of ''Grachi''), it is the American ForeignRemake of the Nickelodeon Latin American teen drama ''Toni, la Chef'' and is produced by the same Miami studio and creative staff responsible for all three of those series. Unlike ''Every Witch Way'' which premiered some time after the conclusion of ''Grachi'', ''Talia in the Kitchen'' and ''Toni, la Chef'' run concurrent of each other - they both premiered their first seasons within a few months of each other.

* AlphaBitch: Debbie Fuchinelli to Talia.

** BiggerBad: [[spoiler:It turns out that Will, former sous chef to Frenchie turned Talia's sous chef, is plotting against both head chefs. Not only that, but he also has his own set of magic spices and wants Talia's as well.]]

* [[spoiler:{{Cliffhanger}}: how the first season ends]]

* CrossOver: With ''Series/EveryWitchWay''

* TheMentor: Delores to Talia, natch.

* NiceGuy: Ty, to a literal fault. Rudy as well.
* OfficialCouple: Talia and Ty Fuchinelli, though Rudy has feelings for Talia as well.
* SadistTeacher: Frenchie is this to Debbie.

* ThreeAmigos: Talia, Rudy and Valarie.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Talia and Valarie.
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Talia, Valarie and Rudy.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Frenchie, Ty and Debbie.

The series concluded its daily first season run of 18 episodes on July 30, 2015 and is confirmed to return for another 20-episode run in the fall of 2015. It also shared two consecutive CrossOver episodes with ''Every Witch Way'' in the first season (concurrent with ''Every Witch Way'''s last season).

* CulturalTranslation: some things have been changed compared to ''Toni, la Chef'', namely the Miami setting and Talia and Julia being originally from Boston.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Debbie, Frenchie and Ty.

* ThreeAmigos: Talia, Rudy and Valarie.

* SecretKeeper: Valarie and Rudy keeping Talia's spices a secret to everyone else, especially Delores. [[spoiler:Except it turns out Delores already knows about the spices and was the one who hid them in the first place - in which case Valarie and Rudy keep the secret that Talia ''still'' uses the spices from Delores as she expressly forbids them.]] Will also becomes a secret keeper for Talia [[spoiler:until it's revealed that he wants her spices for himself.]]

* ForeignRemake: An American adaptation of the Nickelodeon Latin series ''Toni, La Chef'' (albeit produced by the same studio with the same writers).