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Martha Stewart is opening up about one food that she could eat every day
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She also gets candid about what makes a chef excellent
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She notes she loves dishing some sass on her new TV series Yes, Chef!
Martha Stewart undoubtedly knows her way around good food. But does she have a favorite dish? Inquiring minds want to know!
Stewart, 83, says there is one thing that she can eat every single day and not get sick of: Raw fish.
“I could eat probably a fish tartare every day with a little dab of caviar on it,” she says. “And I would probably change the fish from day to day, like between fluke and flounder and tuna and hake. Anything ultra fresh. That would be very good.”
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Yellowtail hamachi from Nagasaki
The co-host of Yes, Chef! was at the event celebrating the launch of Resy’s Dream Team Dinners, which pairs visionary chefs with their dream collaborators. The dinner series, which will pop up in cities like Los Angeles, D.C., Miami, Atlanta, and Chicago throughout May, kicked off with chef Yara Herrera of the NYC hotspot Hellbender. Stewart brought the chef fresh ingredients from her garden for the meal.
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Martha Stewart with Chef Yara Herrera of Hellbender
The kickoff event was a success, and Stewart also opened up about loving her role as a judge on Yes, Chef!, where she says she has no problem serving up the sass.
“I’ve always been totally kind of open, and I’m not a reserved person,” Stewart says. “I am circumspect, I hope, but I’m not reserved. And that show is meant to be fun and kind of wild, and you’re dealing with wild people. So you might as well serve it back to them!”
She says there’s one thing that makes a chef stand out above the competition: Total instinct about food pairing.
“You need pure talent and knowledge of food,” she says. “I mean, gosh, I mean, I know all the best chefs in the entire world by now, I think. And they all have great knowledge, great ingenuity, and a very fabulous ability to put ingredients together in the nicest possible way.”
She says her Yes, Chef! cohost, chef Jose Andres is like that.
“We went to his house that he had rented up in Canada during the filming of Yes, Chef!, and he made us the most delicious meal. He used those little squares that you rub sushi with, nori, as a little flat cracker and added caviar with a strawberry and a little balsamic vinegar, and it was the most delicious thing.”
She adds, “That’s the kind of stuff he just creates on the spur of the moment, and that’s what makes a great chef a great chef.”
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