Chef Ludo Lefebvre and actor/comedian Natasha Leggero host the brand new TBS cooking present Rat within the Kitchen.
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This story is a part of I’m So Obsessed (subscribe right here), our podcast that includes interviews with actors, artists, celebrities and inventive varieties about their work, profession and present obsessions.
In the extensive abyss of TV cooking exhibits, Rat within the Kitchen on TBS discovered a singular strategy to stand out. Many cooking competitions preserve issues full of life by having contestants take care of surprising challenges or obstacles. For instance, who does not love the thriller baskets on Chopped?
Rat within the Kitchen takes every part to the subsequent stage by together with a saboteur (aka rat) as one of many six rivals who’re made up of house cooks {and professional} cooks. If the rat efficiently will get away with sabotaging dishes and does not get caught, they get to maintain the prize cash all for themselves. Even higher, the opposite contestants and the hosts, Chef Ludo Lefebvre and actor/comedian Natasha Leggero, do not know who the rat is.
Leggero was on CNET’s I’m So Obsessed podcast to debate the present. Leggero, who has been a visitor on a number of cooking exhibits like Fast Foodies, discovered herself on the receiving finish of sabotaged meals dishes from the rat.
“Let’s simply say I’ve by no means eaten uncooked lobster earlier than,” mentioned Leggero with amusing. “There are many alternative methods to do it [sabotage food] and I do not wish to give away individuals’s secrets and techniques.”
She shared that there have been instances that Chef Ludo and her had been caught utterly off guard. They had been in the identical kitchen with the contestants and rat and did not know one from the opposite. Luckily, hidden cameras seize the rat’s sneaky creativity.
During our dialog, Leggero mentioned her favourite meal at Chef Ludo’s restaurant and The Endless Honeymoon podcast which she co-hosts together with her husband and fellow comedian Moshe Kasher. One of the various entertain facets of her podcast is that individuals can share their deepest secrets and techniques to a telephone hotline and have them performed on the podcast. This
“We have so many secrets and techniques that we needed to do a further podcast every week of simply all people’s secrets and techniques. And I’m like, ‘why do individuals have so many secrets and techniques?'” mentioned Leggero. “Then I noticed that simply the act of telling a hotline one thing that you have by no means advised anybody earlier than, is remedy.”
New episodes of Rat within the Kitchen air Thursdays on TBS. You can hearken to my whole dialog with Leggero within the podcast participant above. Subscribe to I’m So Obsessed in your favourite podcast app. In every episode, Connie Guglielmo and I meet up with an artist, actor or creator to study their work, profession and present obsessions.
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