Cheyenne Celebrity Chef is part of the new Martha Stewart cooking competition

Person who has never tasted anything by the famous Wyoming chief, Petrina Peart, would never guess that she has problems of self-confidence behind the smiling face which presents her last masterpiece.

After all, the cheyenne -based chief was just A shy vote to beat the famous chef Bobby Flay On the program “Beat Bobby Flay” of the Food Network – no easy task – and it was used to serve as an American culinary diplomat.

More recently, the chef, who is not afraid to promote Fully vegetarian menus in Wyoming, eager for meat In places like The Paramount Ballroom in Cheyenne, was used to serve as executive chief of the manor of the governor of Wyoming.

Peart is really at the top of his game, but his brother, Hubert Johnson, who is involved in culinary efforts in Las Vegas, sees an entirely different side of Chef Peart. He sees the side which is a little too worried about the result every time.

This is why he appointed his sister for Martha Stewart and the new series of cooking competitions by chef Jose Andres, “Yes, chef!” – Without telling him that he was going to do it.

The program, which is broadcast on Mondays evenings from 8 p.m. on April 28 on NBC, Stose 12 chiefs not only, but against themselves.

Each chief appearing on the program fights with a fatal defectincluding chef Peart.

Their ego is too large for cooking, or their stubbornness turns into arrogance, or they are more intense than an oven at 500 degrees by a summer day at 103 degrees.

To win the “yes, chef!” Competition and its Grand Prix of $ 250,000, the chefs will not only have to create spectacular foods when they are under immense pressure, but they will have to show the improvement of their deadly personal defect, anywhere.

Telephone call outside blue

Given the premise of “Yes, chef!” Peart was powerful when she received a call from the show team, inviting her to participate in the selection process.

“It was a good surprise,” Peart told Cowboy State Daily. “But it’s funny, because when I saw (My brother) Video, I didn’t think it was very precise. “”

Until she was faced with her too perfectionist ways on the show “Yes, Chef”. Which, in the end, made him appreciate his brother all the more.

“Most people do not know that I fight with things like that,” said Peart. “They see my career progress and think that I am like the kind of typical, always confident person. It’s not at all me. I constantly give myself many things. And for him to see this internal struggle, it made me feel seen. ”

In the case of Chef Peart, it is not the ego, the temperament or the stubbornness that holds it in life and the culinary adventures.

“I have the impression that some career fields or career paths have a certain level of ego attached to them,” said Peart. “And I don’t have that. But I think too much, and this kind of thing leads to this thing of perfectionism. You know, the Imposte sYndrome, if I don’t understand things every time.

What is Imocreter syndrome?

Impostor sYndrome has no civil servant diagnosis in the manual of psychological disorders. But it’s always something that can suffocate those who suffer from it.

The term was invented in the late 1970s by some psychologists, Pauline Pink Clance and Suzanne Imes, who had noticed a scheme of very efficient women, who, despite their obvious success, looked like fraud inside.

This has created a lot of secret and secret anxiety for women, who feared that they are unable to experience their own reputation. Abundant evidence of the contrary did not seem to suffocate these anxieties either. In fact, most often, he tended to increase their intense internal fears.

It is a cycle that Peart said that she recognizes now is at stake in herself.

“We are like artists insofar as we have an idea and we manifest it in something real, something tangible and something I put on a plate to say:” This is what I created. How do you think? “” Said Peart. “And if they don’t like that, well, it’s like my heart.”

These fears come from a place of good intentions. Peart just wants to make an incredible dish that does not wow them every time. But anxiety Around reaching this ideal It also means wasting a precious cerebral space on the second guess and reflection.

This may not affect the overall result of what it serves a given opportunity, but it always removes the general pleasure of the creative process. And this can sometimes bring people to avoid growth possibilities as too risky.

“This is the pressure I put myself on myself, it’s the thing I need to work,” said Peart. “And this is one of the reasons why I decided to make the series.”

Meet Martha Stewart and Chef Andres

Peart also liked the concept of a show where she actively works on an area that must improve, rather than simply competing with another series of chefs to see who can make the best dish.

“I think it’s Jose Andres in the overview who said:” They are not only fighting, they are fighting. “” Said Peart. “And it is very true most of the time in the kitchen that my best friend and my greatest enemy are sometimes myself.”

But another of the major reasons why Peart was delighted to be part of the series was the chance to meet the guru of the house Martha Stewart, which is legendary for its expertise in cooking, entertaining and decoration, as well as the famous chef Jose Andres, A renowned chief, who launched World Central Kitchen, a group of NGOs and non -profit that provides humanitarian food aid worldwide. The two are people she admired from afar.

“Martha Stewart is like the reason why I like the table scape – make a beautiful dining table,” said Peart. “This is the reason why I like to create a beautiful centerpiece and all that.”

Andres, on the other hand, is what Peart described as “the quintessence of a beautiful human being”.

“His heart is so tall,” said Peart. “Just the World Central Kitchen and helping California and Haiti and in Palestine. It was everywhere and it is just a beautiful passion project. I think he is a culinary giant, so being in their presence was just, I am almost sure that you will see when they appear for the first time, we are all just struck.”

For Peart, working alongside these two was like a dream come true.

“We have all these giants that we put on pedestals and it’s like, ok, I know that I succeed when I reach this level,” said Peart. “To go to a place where you are in the same room with such people, there are no words for things like that, experiences like that.”

Harder than “Beat Bobby Flay”

“Yes, chef!” Being a series of reality, however, was an experience very different from its appearance in the show “Beat Bobby Flay”.

While she knew everything about the kitchen “yes, chef”, there was an element that particularly surprised her.

“All cameras,” said Peart. “It was probably the only thing that was really like a new experience for me.”

There were, of course, cameras on the show “Beat Bobby Flay”. But there was only one other competitor at work. In this case, there were 11 other competitors, each with a crew team of the camera after each of their movements.

“Everyone is on a 30 -minute calendar,” said Peart. “And there are 25 cameras everywhere. I have always been under the spotlight, observed, working in an open kitchen with people who pass and watch you work.”

But it was intimidating higher level, with someone who turned everything she did, errors and everything, In a kitchen where 11 other people rush for ingredients and ideas.

The fact that she was the only chief representing Wyoming was above all in her mind, she added, which added a little more pressure to everything.

Peart saw another chief falling during an episode and it made her a little more fear while she was working.

“I said to myself,” Oh my God, I hope they don’t surprise me to die for, “said Peart.

What’s waiting for chef Peart

One of the great things on the Peart calendar of upcoming events will be to visit his brother this summer in Vegas, to thank him for having appointed him for the show.

Before that, however, she plans a little party with friends to launch the series, and she can’t wait to see how things go.

“There are so many things you are missing when you save, because you focus on your own experience,” said Peart

In the meantime, Peart is planning a garden for the governor’s manor, where she will cultivate a lot of herbs and fresh products for her creations.

“I really love this connection of culture and cooking and feeding it (Garden Fresh Food),” she said. “So, I’m really impatient this spring, and I work with the First Lady, who always has a garden and likes gardening. It’s going to be fun this spring.”

She will also travel a little in the next two weeks. She was one of the five Taraunéed chefs for taking control of the restaurant in a few weeks at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol, which is located in Virginia.

“We have a culinary experience of seven dishes,” said Peart. “It will be the weekend after the show first. “”

Peart hopes people watch the show: “Yes, chef!” Will be able to refer and learn from personal difficulties as the show takes place, as well as to apply what they learn about their own efforts.

“There will be a lot of unpredictable things that you just have to connect, then encourage everyone – not just me from Wyoming, but also to everyone.”

Renée Jean can be reached renee@cowboystatedily.com.