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- 0:00Speaker 1: I Am all In Again.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Let's I Am all In Again with Scott Patterson an
- 0:20Speaker 2: iHeartRadio podcast.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one
- 0:25Speaker 1: eleven productions. iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia, iHeart Podcast. Luke's Diner Episode. We
- 0:33Speaker 1: are going to take our little journey through this episode
- 0:40Speaker 1: with none other than Brooke Bayevsky, otherwise known as the
- 0:44Speaker 1: Incredible Chef bay She's a celebrity chef, wellness expert, social
- 0:49Speaker 1: media sensation known for her creating delicious, healthy, and allergen
- 0:54Speaker 1: friendly meals with a passion for making gourmet food accessible
- 0:58Speaker 1: to all. She's worked with top brands, celebrities, athletes, all
- 1:01Speaker 1: while sharing her culinary expertise online. Today, we're diving into
- 1:05Speaker 1: the world of Gilmore Girl's food and hearing about her
- 1:09Speaker 1: experiences in the kitchen.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Welcome chef by thank you so much. It's so nice
- 1:15Speaker 3: to meet you, and thank you for having me.
- 1:17Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to have you. Nice to meet you too.
- 1:20Speaker 1: We're excited. So episode fourteen, season one that Damn Donna
- 1:26Speaker 1: reed and we are treated to a lot of food Brooke.
- 1:31Speaker 1: To just name a few, we see pizza, homemade donuts,
- 1:33Speaker 1: chocolate cake, lamb chops, mashed potatoes, green beans, steak. I'm
- 1:38Speaker 1: so hungry right now, let's take a break and go
- 1:43Speaker 1: eat some food. No, I'm kidding, all right, So we'll
- 1:46Speaker 1: get into the food shown throughout the episode.
- 1:49Speaker 3: But first, how did you.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Break into the world of cooking for celebrities?
- 1:55Speaker 4: I definitely I get this question a lot. I definitely
- 1:58Speaker 4: did not have the traditional culinary career path. Most people
- 2:03Speaker 4: go from you know, high school to culinary school work
- 2:05Speaker 4: you right up in a restaurant or a hotel hospitality group.
- 2:08Speaker 4: For me, I grew up in a family with nine
- 2:11Speaker 4: allergens among the five of us, so I always saw
- 2:14Speaker 4: this need to cater to dietary needs focus on food
- 2:18Speaker 4: for health, and I knew this was going to be
- 2:21Speaker 4: an increased need just seeing the food system in our country.
- 2:26Speaker 4: So my background is very niche. I an undergrad I
- 2:29Speaker 4: studied food science, product development, and nutrition, and then I
- 2:33Speaker 4: went to a health supportive culinary arts program which focused
- 2:37Speaker 4: on eating for health and wellness, which at that time,
- 2:40Speaker 4: several years ago, was the first kind of program of
- 2:44Speaker 4: its kind. Most and this was crazy to me, most
- 2:47Speaker 4: culinary schools don't cover health, wellness and eating. I nutritiously
- 2:53Speaker 4: and this blew my mind. So this was the first
- 2:55Speaker 4: program that was really really interesting to me. And up
- 2:58Speaker 4: until then, I was doing a lot of corporate food
- 3:00Speaker 4: product development, so developing the healthiest food products for the
- 3:03Speaker 4: largest companies in the world, like egg bites for Starbucks
- 3:06Speaker 4: and soups for Panera Bread. And I always had this
- 3:09Speaker 4: passion for healthy food and making healthy food accessible to all.
- 3:12Speaker 4: And after I was in this program, I started getting
- 3:15Speaker 4: approached by this culinary program. I was approached by trainers
- 3:19Speaker 4: and nutritionness of athletes in the NBA in the NFL
- 3:22Speaker 4: who they're all about nutrition. You know, they just can't
- 3:26Speaker 4: have a normal chef. They need someone who can analyze
- 3:29Speaker 4: blood work. And if a trainer came to me and said,
- 3:32Speaker 4: I need a high protein, no night shade, low inflammatory diet.
- 3:36Speaker 4: They need two hundred and fifty grams of protein a day,
- 3:39Speaker 4: and here's the times that they can eat. Come up
- 3:42Speaker 4: with a perfect meal plan. They need someone who could
- 3:44Speaker 4: do that. And my background is niche and still is
- 3:47Speaker 4: pretty niche to be able to do that. So I
- 3:49Speaker 4: can look at all of their blood work and come
- 3:51Speaker 4: up with this designer diet. And then pretty soon after
- 3:54Speaker 4: that it was their wives who were models, actors in
- 3:59Speaker 4: the industry, and then it kind of snowballed from there.
- 4:01Speaker 4: But it was a very interesting approach to private chefing
- 4:05Speaker 4: that I broke into because prior to me, when you
- 4:08Speaker 4: would private chef, you would go in, you would sign
- 4:11Speaker 4: an NDA and you would just say, you know, you
- 4:13Speaker 4: go and you cook. You can't talk about who you're
- 4:14Speaker 4: cooking for. For me, I started building up this social
- 4:17Speaker 4: media platform as a celebrity private chef, and my clients,
- 4:22Speaker 4: now clients, started following me on my platforms, so they
- 4:24Speaker 4: actually wanted me to post about them and be in
- 4:27Speaker 4: my videos. So it's kind of a very interesting path
- 4:30Speaker 4: and to create our celebrity private chef.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Very symbiotic relationship there. Wonderful. So you've been very open
- 4:40Speaker 1: about your love for Airwan. Do you do all your
- 4:43Speaker 1: grocery shopping there? Do you mix it up with other stores?
- 4:46Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 4:46Speaker 3: Me both think Airwon pays me. They do not. They
- 4:49Speaker 3: do not.
- 4:51Speaker 4: I would say I let my clients choose where they
- 4:53Speaker 4: want me to shop, but typically it's a lot of
- 4:56Speaker 4: fun and no budget and Airwan is all organic, really
- 4:59Speaker 4: high quality, So typically I do shop at Airwin. I
- 5:04Speaker 4: spend a tremendous amount of money at Airwan and film
- 5:06Speaker 4: some funny content there. And now I have my own product.
- 5:10Speaker 4: I have a carrot cake, which is one of the
- 5:11Speaker 4: best selling desserts in Airwan. But it's fun. People are
- 5:15Speaker 4: just so fascinated with it. And they'll be like, I,
- 5:19Speaker 4: how did you spend thirty thousand dollars in Airwan last month?
- 5:22Speaker 4: You're so tone deaf, and I'm like, how do you
- 5:24Speaker 4: afford that? I'm like, one, I don't pay for the ingredients,
- 5:26Speaker 4: of course, and then two, it's my celebrity clients that, yes,
- 5:31Speaker 4: are buying these Airwan groceries. But I do a lot
- 5:33Speaker 4: for inner city children and families, for cooking classes and nonprofits,
- 5:37Speaker 4: and it's actually those clients that are paying for me
- 5:40Speaker 4: to be able to do those classes. When the La
- 5:42Speaker 4: fires happened, it was my clients that gave me tens
- 5:45Speaker 4: of thousands of dollars to make meals for those in
- 5:47Speaker 4: need and on.
- 5:48Speaker 3: The front line.
- 5:48Speaker 4: So they're the most thoughtful people ever. But yeah, they'll
- 5:52Speaker 4: you know, unlimited budget at Airwan is very fun.
- 5:55Speaker 1: What's the single most expensive item you have ever purchased?
- 5:59Speaker 4: At the forty dollars water and a view of it,
- 6:06Speaker 4: and people actually bought it because they were so curious
- 6:09Speaker 4: that all the airons sold out of this water when
- 6:11Speaker 4: I did a very viral review of it a couple
- 6:13Speaker 4: of years ago, and people would come together at dinner
- 6:16Speaker 4: because it's the price of a restaurant to eat there,
- 6:18Speaker 4: and instead of sharing a bottle of wine, they would
- 6:20Speaker 4: share this bottle of water, which is so funny. It's
- 6:23Speaker 4: nanopure hyperoxygenated water. Okay, not worth it in my opinion.
- 6:30Speaker 1: No, no, didn't notice anything remarkable happening after you were
- 6:35Speaker 1: drinking it.
- 6:36Speaker 4: So I actually tried to travel with it, and then
- 6:39Speaker 4: I realized it was just to carry on. So I
- 6:40Speaker 4: had this massive bottle of like it's forty dollars. I
- 6:44Speaker 4: was going to New York to film with it. I
- 6:46Speaker 4: was like, I'm going to let this go to waste.
- 6:48Speaker 4: I'm not going to dump it because I can't take
- 6:49Speaker 4: it through security.
- 6:50Speaker 3: So at six.
- 6:51Speaker 4: Am, I chugged this entire bottle of water, and I
- 6:54Speaker 4: thought I was going to sleep on the plane, but
- 6:56Speaker 4: because it's hyperoxygenated, it was like so much oxygen to
- 6:59Speaker 4: my brain that I was wide awake. So that's the
- 7:02Speaker 4: one benefit of is I was so wide awake on
- 7:04Speaker 4: that flight, I felt like I had three coffees, so
- 7:07Speaker 4: people swear by a sip of it.
- 7:08Speaker 3: Would I pay forty dollars for water? No? But now
- 7:11Speaker 3: since they have the twenty dollars single strawberry that just
- 7:14Speaker 3: launched there, we need to go review it.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, So you've cooked for some big names like
- 7:23Speaker 1: Paris Hilton, Sara, Michelle Geller, Mindy Kayleg. What's the most
- 7:29Speaker 1: outrageous or challenging dish you've ever attempted to create? Weather
- 7:33Speaker 1: for a client or just for fun.
- 7:36Speaker 3: I would say none of those three clients.
- 7:38Speaker 4: But I had another client who I was cooking on
- 7:41Speaker 4: a boat and everything had to be covered in gold
- 7:43Speaker 4: flakes just to do it. I mean, I've done two
- 7:46Speaker 4: thousand dollars pizzas, three hundred dollars mac and cheese, five
- 7:49Speaker 4: hundred dollars girl cheeses, just ridiculousness for housewives and famous
- 7:54Speaker 4: housewives and things like that.
- 7:55Speaker 3: But I would say the.
- 7:56Speaker 4: Covered in gold flakes, and I still have gold like
- 8:00Speaker 4: PTSD because one covering a hot ribbi in gold flakes
- 8:04Speaker 4: it is not an easy task and also it has
- 8:06Speaker 4: to be done fast to keep the stay hot.
- 8:08Speaker 3: And it's like glitter, so it gets everywhere.
- 8:11Speaker 4: It gets in your clothes, it gets in the carpet,
- 8:14Speaker 4: So I yeah, that would be that would be the craziest.
- 8:17Speaker 3: But two thousand dollars pizza.
- 8:19Speaker 4: I actually had my client record me serving this pizza
- 8:22Speaker 4: because I was like, no one's gonna believe that I
- 8:25Speaker 4: actually made this, so you need to fill me. And
- 8:28Speaker 4: then I posted it and when viral. But I used
- 8:31Speaker 4: caviare and expensive nuts from around the world to make
- 8:34Speaker 4: these vegan cheeses and I put gold flakes on it
- 8:37Speaker 4: and it was ridiculous. But some people like expensive bottles
- 8:41Speaker 4: at a club for a table, this client wanted to
- 8:44Speaker 4: show off with the two thousand dollars pizza.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Wow. So all right, So Gilmore Girls is famous for
- 8:50Speaker 1: its love of comfort food obviously burgers, pancakes, and let's
- 8:54Speaker 1: amount to coffee. How would you put a healthy twist
- 8:57Speaker 1: on some of these classic Gilmore.
- 9:01Speaker 4: Oh well, first, huge fan of Gilmore Girls, So this
- 9:04Speaker 4: is this is amazing. My sister will be breaking out
- 9:07Speaker 4: knowing that watching this one. So I would say a
- 9:12Speaker 4: lot of people don't know how to make something healthy
- 9:14Speaker 4: and I and that's still satisfying. I love breaking that
- 9:17Speaker 4: stigma that healthy food is anything is boring, it's bland,
- 9:21Speaker 4: it's unsatisfying, it's not delicious, and just making delicious healthy
- 9:25Speaker 4: food that everyone can eat. So I would say for diners,
- 9:30Speaker 4: I would say focusing on really high protein to still
- 9:34Speaker 4: be satisfying.
- 9:35Speaker 3: Like I make.
- 9:36Speaker 4: A burger and the bun is made with a fluffy
- 9:41Speaker 4: egg whites is the base. It still has a great shoe,
- 9:43Speaker 4: it's covered in sesame seeds, but it's really high protein.
- 9:46Speaker 4: And then the burger itself is still so high protein
- 9:48Speaker 4: and satisfying. So there's a arugula, there's like a spicy mayo,
- 9:52Speaker 4: there's caramelized onions, there's a delicious turkey burger. And I
- 9:57Speaker 4: would say things like fries an easy ha is air
- 10:02Speaker 4: fried air fried air baked fries, mixing in combining fries
- 10:07Speaker 4: with other vegetables, you still get that satisfying crunch. But
- 10:09Speaker 4: doing ruta baga, doing carrots, doing sweet potatoes, high fiber,
- 10:13Speaker 4: high nutrients, and then doing some simple swaps like a ketchup.
- 10:17Speaker 4: I know is a diner saple, but I make a
- 10:20Speaker 4: homemade ketchup that I think is way better and more
- 10:22Speaker 4: flavorful because ketchup is basically.
- 10:25Speaker 3: Dyed corn syrup. That's all it is.
- 10:27Speaker 4: So you can actually get so much flavor and nutrition
- 10:30Speaker 4: out of a freshly made tomato ketchup, and it tastes better.
- 10:33Speaker 1: Right right, right, all right, So Lorala and Roy come
- 10:46Speaker 1: to you. You know they're eating habits. They want a
- 10:49Speaker 1: signature dish. What would you make for them?
- 10:51Speaker 4: Okay, So for breakfast, I would say, and I would
- 10:57Speaker 4: healthify the diner doughnut. Those always pleasantly surprised. I make
- 11:02Speaker 4: grain free apple cider donuts that are beautiful the fall season.
- 11:07Speaker 4: They have this coconut sugar coating with cinnamon and the
- 11:11Speaker 4: base it's a cassava almond flour baked doughnut.
- 11:14Speaker 3: They're still so moist and delicious.
- 11:15Speaker 4: I actually did content where I went to the Santa
- 11:17Speaker 4: Monica pier in with my little donut hat and I
- 11:20Speaker 4: looked like a donut vendor with my friend Dan Yellow
- 11:22Speaker 4: Monette and other actress and we delivered donuts and people
- 11:25Speaker 4: were like, this is better than the fair food. People
- 11:27Speaker 4: compared it with the palelcakes and everything. So I would
- 11:30Speaker 4: say those doughnuts and then paired with I make really
- 11:34Speaker 4: good turkey sausages and other kind of dinery brunch food,
- 11:40Speaker 4: my maple glaze turkey bacon, and then I make really
- 11:44Speaker 4: good high protein waffles with Quema flour almond flour. So
- 11:52Speaker 4: I think lots of opportunity for a healthy diner breakfast
- 11:55Speaker 4: to help the bye it for sure, your hash browns
- 11:58Speaker 4: made with Colie shreaded cauliflower, oh boy, crazy, But I
- 12:01Speaker 4: swear you would love it.
- 12:03Speaker 1: I'm sure I would. Do you have a favorite season
- 12:06Speaker 1: that you cook for or cook in?
- 12:09Speaker 3: So I also grew up in the Northeast, so I
- 12:11Speaker 3: love actually really he's in now.
- 12:14Speaker 1: I'm in La where in the northeast.
- 12:16Speaker 3: Western Massachusetts?
- 12:18Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
- 12:20Speaker 4: So I love skiing in the winter. I would say
- 12:23Speaker 4: fall is my favorite season. Nothing beats a Northeast fall.
- 12:26Speaker 4: Very Gilmore girls ask of the apple picking and we
- 12:28Speaker 4: would go and picking and apple ci or donuts.
- 12:31Speaker 3: It's that was my childhood. I love it.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Yeah, I grew up in the Northeast too. I miss it.
- 12:37Speaker 1: Southern New Jersey, Okay.
- 12:39Speaker 3: I have family in Cherry.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Hill, I don't. I grew up in the next town over, Amazing. Yeah, Yeah,
- 12:46Speaker 1: it's beautiful down there. Miss those falls, I really do.
- 12:50Speaker 1: And I actually kind of missed the winners. But then
- 12:51Speaker 1: I realized, I just I was a kid in those winters.
- 12:55Speaker 1: I don't have to drive around in them, and like,
- 12:57Speaker 1: you know, haul my own kids around in the winter,
- 12:59Speaker 1: So it's a little different equation. But anyway, really missed
- 13:03Speaker 1: the place. So tell us a little bit more about
- 13:07Speaker 1: how you're using your platform and your culinary skills to
- 13:11Speaker 1: help people affected by the LA wildfires. Yeah.
- 13:15Speaker 4: So I've always been very philanthropic since I was younger.
- 13:20Speaker 4: I started multiple nonprofits across the country to help inner
- 13:23Speaker 4: city children and families. So when there's a community, especially
- 13:26Speaker 4: by community that needs help, the first thing I don't
- 13:28Speaker 4: even think of twice about it.
- 13:30Speaker 3: I'm just like, how can we do something? How can
- 13:31Speaker 3: we help?
- 13:32Speaker 4: So when the La fires happened, I lost sixty of
- 13:35Speaker 4: my clients and friends lost their homes. Sixty six zero
- 13:39Speaker 4: was like apocalyptic. So many of my celebrity clients were
- 13:42Speaker 4: in the Palisades Malibu. So many my friends just grabbed
- 13:45Speaker 4: things and ran, And I was like, Okay, my clients,
- 13:48Speaker 4: you know, as tragic as it is, they have somewhere
- 13:51Speaker 4: to go. But there were so many frontline workers, There
- 13:55Speaker 4: were so many people that worked in those homes, the
- 13:58Speaker 4: house staff that had nowhere to go.
- 14:00Speaker 3: We're out of jobs.
- 14:01Speaker 4: There's like ninety thousand people within ten thousand houses that
- 14:05Speaker 4: burned down, and I was like, what can I do?
- 14:07Speaker 4: So immediately making meals. I partnered with Holy Smokes Kosher
- 14:11Speaker 4: Barbecue in La and she had a commercial kitchen we
- 14:16Speaker 4: could use, and we just I recruited volunteers, I recruited suppliers.
- 14:21Speaker 3: My food bake.
- 14:21Speaker 4: Community and my clients helped me raise two hundred and
- 14:24Speaker 4: sixty thousand dollars in one week to make thousands of
- 14:27Speaker 4: meals every single day because one what people were dropping
- 14:30Speaker 4: off at the firehouses for firefighters sleeping on the floor
- 14:34Speaker 4: working around the clock were donuts and gatorade, And like,
- 14:37Speaker 4: these people, these are heroes. These are people working around
- 14:40Speaker 4: the clock. They need high protein, nutritious, delicious, veggie forward meals.
- 14:45Speaker 3: That's what they need.
- 14:47Speaker 4: And a lot of the food was being turned down
- 14:49Speaker 4: because if something's not made in a commercial kitchen, they
- 14:51Speaker 4: couldn't even accept it. So people really wanted to help.
- 14:54Speaker 4: So my biggest mission was, guys, we can make more meals,
- 14:57Speaker 4: but you're going to go way farther donating to us
- 15:00Speaker 4: to give them commercial grade food that they can accept,
- 15:02Speaker 4: then going into your kitchen and dropping off junk food
- 15:05Speaker 4: or food that you with the right intention that they
- 15:07Speaker 4: can't accept at the firehouses. So it was amazing the
- 15:12Speaker 4: community that came together what we did. I'm still going
- 15:15Speaker 4: next week to make some food for those that are
- 15:17Speaker 4: displaced as we speak. But it was amazing to see
- 15:22Speaker 4: the LA community come together and I feed feed our heroes.
- 15:27Speaker 4: The frontline workers were incredibly amazing, working around the clock
- 15:32Speaker 4: in that environment, in that air. I was miles away
- 15:36Speaker 4: in the kitchen we would deliver to the front lines,
- 15:37Speaker 4: and that I would be in an N ninety five
- 15:39Speaker 4: mask and the air was still affecting me.
- 15:41Speaker 3: So they are truly heroes. So the least I could
- 15:45Speaker 3: have done.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Well, good for you and thank you for those contributions.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Much appreciated.
- 15:51Speaker 3: Are you in La currently.
- 15:53Speaker 1: No, I'm out actually in near Malibu now. So you know,
- 15:57Speaker 1: we were affected. We weren't evacuated, but almost we were packed.
- 16:03Speaker 1: The cars were packed, We were ready to go at
- 16:05Speaker 1: a moment's notice. All our valuables were in the car,
- 16:08Speaker 1: you know, that kind of thing. But we never got
- 16:09Speaker 1: the we never got the message to clear out, you know,
- 16:12Speaker 1: the wind would change if we would get within five
- 16:15Speaker 1: miles or something like that, you know, because there were
- 16:17Speaker 1: multiple fires going in the Palisades fires and then there
- 16:20Speaker 1: was all kinds of different fires. They kept cropping up. Yeah,
- 16:25Speaker 1: but we really dodged a bullet, all right. If you
- 16:29Speaker 1: were to come into Luke's Diner, Brook, what would you
- 16:32Speaker 1: order and where, even more importantly, would you sit?
- 16:39Speaker 3: Hmm? I guess a comfy booth.
- 16:44Speaker 4: Whenever I post up and I somewhere, I'm always working.
- 16:48Speaker 4: I stay somewhere for a very long time until I
- 16:50Speaker 4: get eyes that I need to leave. But I would
- 16:53Speaker 4: order I'm very healthy, so they probably would. You'd probably
- 16:57Speaker 4: spit in my food because I would say, like the
- 17:00Speaker 4: can I change.
- 17:01Speaker 3: Everything on the menu? Kind of?
- 17:04Speaker 4: And I would be the second I asked for gluten
- 17:07Speaker 4: free toast, I know my food would be spitting and
- 17:10Speaker 4: I know it's not A.
- 17:11Speaker 1: Model would never do that. He might, he might be
- 17:14Speaker 1: a little grumpy, but he wouldn't do that.
- 17:17Speaker 3: I would ask.
- 17:17Speaker 4: For like an egg white omelet with veggies, and they'd
- 17:21Speaker 4: be like, who is this healthy girl?
- 17:23Speaker 1: I did that all the time. That's not a good deal.
- 17:26Speaker 3: You got it? Yeah, I think that that's easy.
- 17:29Speaker 2: That's easy.
- 17:31Speaker 1: Less work for me, No, I mean, I mean, you know,
- 17:33Speaker 1: I just tell Caesar what to do exactly. Oh, it's
- 17:35Speaker 1: been fun getting to know You're fun talking to you,
- 17:38Speaker 1: And thank you so much for for for helping out
- 17:41Speaker 1: those heroes. Really really important thing to do.
- 17:45Speaker 3: Uh.
- 17:46Speaker 1: And you can find Brooke on Instagram and TikTok as
- 17:49Speaker 1: at Chef Bay c h E F b A And
- 17:54Speaker 1: if you want to see some of her recipes, check
- 17:56Speaker 1: out in the Kitchen with Chef Bay cam.
- 18:01Speaker 3: And the link of my bio.
- 18:02Speaker 4: I have a substack, so I post two to three
- 18:04Speaker 4: d recipes every single week on substack and I have
- 18:08Speaker 4: a great community there, so definitely.
- 18:09Speaker 3: Check that out.
- 18:10Speaker 1: We'll surely do that. Thank you so much, Brooke for
- 18:13Speaker 1: your time and your insights and your charity to the community.
- 18:18Speaker 1: Much respect to you and good luck with everything, and
- 18:21Speaker 1: thank you everybody for downloading. We will see you on
- 18:24Speaker 1: the next episode of Luke's Diner. And remember where you lead,
- 18:29Speaker 1: we will follow. Stay safe everyone, Hey, everybody, don't forget
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- 19:06Speaker 1: and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com.