“Nobody wants to see me do this”
Zooey Deschanel loves to cook. Her specialties include risotto and various French dishes she learned while visiting her family abroad.
Even so, his new Max food series, “What Am I Eating?”, isn’t about his life in the kitchen. “I didn’t want to do a show where it’s like, ‘I’m an actor – watch me cook!'” Deschanel told me Monday night at a dinner party celebrating the “What am I eating ?” first. “Nobody wants to see me do this.”
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Except maybe her boyfriend, “Property Brothers” star Jonathan Scott. “Every time someone says something to me like, ‘How was your pandemic? I always say, ‘I was living my best life,'” he said. ” She is greedy. She’s a great cook. »
Each episode of “What Am I Eating?”, which originated in the digital series “Your Food’s Roots,” produced by Candle Media’s ATTN about six years ago, delves into various food-related topics, including oils, organic fruits and vegetables, chocolate and breads. “I’m not an expert,” Deschanel said. “I come to this as a mother who wanted to learn more about healthy eating for my children.” Deschanel is the mother of a 7-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son, her children with her ex-husband Jacob Pechenik.
“Every time we do something on the show, we learn something,” Deschanel said. “We don’t want to scare anyone about what they eat. We want to inspire people, inspire people and do it in a fun way. It’s something people can watch with their kids.
Regarding Deschanel’s cooking, the “New Girl” star said she’s not afraid to make mistakes. “Experimentation is the best part,” she said. I made a double batch of popovers last week and burned them because we have a new range and the high end is hotter than the mid. But it was fine. I had to learn.
Scott didn’t care. “He ate all the burnt popovers,” Deschanel said.
Scott added, “I like things crispy and burnt.”
Deschanel’s dream dinner guests would include Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandi. However, she admitted, “I would be really intimidated, so I would probably ask one of the chefs who appeared on the show to do the cooking.”
Monday’s guest list for the first dinner at Casita Hollywood (a new event space that once housed a Sizzler) included food influencers, experts who appear on the show and leaders of food nonprofits. The six-course meal, inspired by various segments of the show, began with a dish consisting of Japanese yam and shishito pepper hash, five-spice brown butter, quail egg, whipped avocado and of togarashi ketchup and ended with a dessert of various sweet treats, including Mexican Hot Chocolate, white chocolate matcha cream pot and cotton candy grape coulis.
Guests also received bottles of extra virgin olive oil from the Los Angeles-based Flamingo Estate.
” What I eat ? Starring Zooey Deschanel” is available to stream on Max.
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