Carla Hall, Jose Andres, Tom Collicchio and other big-name chefs will be "Cooking for Kamala"
Source: Salon
Published August 28, 2024 1:11PM (EDT)
In her YouTube series Cooking with Kamala, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in the kitchen where she cooked alongside celebrities and cultural figures like Mindy Kaling, who joined Harris to make masala dosa, and former First Lady Michelle Obama, who prepared a family recipe while discussing public health and nutrition.
Now, over 20 celebrity chefs and culinary industry leaders will be Cooking for Kamala on Thursday night.
The free, live virtual event, which was organized by California Congressman Eric Swalwell, will be hosted by Padma Lakshmi, of Taste the Nation and Top Chef, and actor Joel McHale (who just announced he was joining the third season of the hit thriller series Yellowjackets).
The sign-up page reads: Please join the best chefs in the world as they gather online as they introduce you to new recipes of their own AND to recreate one of Kamala Harris' very own recipes! The planned list of participating chefs reportedly includes Tom Collichio, Carla Hall, José Andrés, Cat Cora, Gail Simmons, Ruth Reichl, Nancy Silverton, Art Smith, April Bloomfield, Nyesha Arrington, Marcus Samuellsson, Chris Bianco and more.
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2024/08/28/carla-hall-jos-andrs-tom-collicchio-and-other-big-name-chefs-will-be-cooking-for-kamala/?in_brief=true
ananda
(30,444 posts)Kamala sure does attract good people!
BumRushDaShow
(140,914 posts)I.e., they are not watching "Morning Joe" or "Rachel Maddow" but are looking at cooking shows and some of those "craft competitions" or "challenges" shows and whatnot, many of which are streaming.
LetMyPeopleVote
(153,851 posts)IronLionZion
(46,864 posts)onetexan
(13,808 posts)LOVE IT
IronLionZion
(46,864 posts)instead of fast food
onetexan
(13,808 posts)LisaM
(28,456 posts)I just got so sick of her "cooking with Looooovve" schtick and I think she overplays the eccentric appearance card.
onetexan
(13,808 posts)LisaM
(28,456 posts)However, I don't hate her or anything. I just don't watch her, because I think she is schticky and I don't find anything particularly compelling about her cooking style. I'm sure she's a perfectly fine person.
japple
(10,280 posts)tRUMP's Washington hotel after the orange idiot made disparaging remarks about Mexican people.
Magoo48
(5,126 posts)2naSalit
(92,009 posts)I love all these zoom events. It's the technology/platform that will unite us. I was just explaining this to someone, all these zoom calls and they were amazed... only knew about a couple of them and didn't know they were zoom calls.
This is a fantastic phenomena, it's reminiscent of the way Obama was able to use social media to make gains in his '08 election and it was, at the time, revolutionary.
It's a really good sign.
mitch96
(14,584 posts)feeds people when they need it most. One less thing to worry about in their time of need...
Donate to World Central Kitchen and help him out...
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betsuni
(27,255 posts)"My mother cooked like a scientist. She was always experimenting -- an oyster beef stir-fry one night, potato latkes on another. Even my lunch became a lab for her creations: On the bus, my friends, with their bologna sandwiches and PB&J's, would ask excitingly, 'Kamala, what you got?' I'd open the brown paper bag, which my mother always decorated with a smiley face or a doodle: 'Cream cheese and olives on dark rye!' I'll admit, not every experiment was successful -- at least not for my grade school palate. But no matter what, it was different, and that made it special, just like my mother.
"Most of our conversations took place in the kitchen. Cooking and eating were among the things our family did most often together. When Maya and I were kids, our mother used to sometimes serve us what she called a 'smorgasbord.' She'd use a cookie cutter to make shapes in pieces of bread, then lay them out on a tray with mustard, mayonnaise, pickles, and fancy toothpicks. In between the bread slices, we'd put whatever was left in the refrigerator from the previous nights of cooking. It took me years to clue in on the fact that 'smorgasbord' was really just 'leftovers.'"
My mother was big on what she called 'smorgasbord' too and those were my favorites. Summer lunches: sourdough bread, Best Foods mayonnaise and Marie's Blue Cheese dressing, mustard, grilled salmon or chicken leftovers, Tillamook Extra Sharp cheese, summer sausage, green onions (we lived for the short sweet Walla Walla onion season), radishes, tomatoes, cucumbers. Bing cherries.
Winter version was a variety of cheeses: Havarti, Port Salut, Gouda, Tillamook of course. Smoked salmon spread, smoked oysters, alder smoked salmon, sour cream and onion dip, crackers and pumpernickel and rye breads. Grapes.
iemanja
(54,553 posts)I'm a big fan of Top Chef, and Jose Andres, of course.
Figarosmom
(2,188 posts)This should be great for foodies.
Gaytano70
(1,153 posts)Watch tomorrow, Thursday, August 29, at 5pm ET.
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mopinko
(71,597 posts)havent watched it in ages. but we all used to gather around to watch it.
that part about her moms experiments hits home. despite being huge fans of chopped, my kids hated that i cooked like that. i admit, partly due to my poor tasting practice. but
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