NYC chef on NBCs Yes, Chef! dishes on cooking…
Celebrity kitchens might be actually cool.
Private NYC chef Julia Chebotar dished on cooking for the wealthy and well-known — and essentially the most “life-changing” amenity she’s seen in an A-lister’s home.
“Multiple ice machines with different shapes,” she instructed The Post this week.
“So you open one little one and they’re shaped like perfect circles. You open another little one and it’s like the shaved ice cubes. And they’re all spaced out throughout the house. I’m like, ‘This is the dream!’”
Chebotar, 36, one of 12 competing on NBC’s new collection “Yes, Chef!,” which premieres on April 28, was employed by Ryan Seacrest — however she by no means used the swanky home equipment in his precise kitchen since she by no means cooked in it.
Chef Julia Chebotar was forged on “Yes, Chef!,” a new cooking competitors collection on NBC. Brendan Meadows/NBC
“Ryan Seacrest had an entire different house for me to cook in, where someone would come and pick up the food and deliver it to him. A house on his property, but it wasn’t where he stayed.”
She additionally needed to comply with the “American Idol” host’s strict diet.
“That was really interesting because he ate according to his blood type. So I had to cook his food for his blood type, the girlfriend’s food for her blood type,” she mentioned of the Blood Type Diet pattern, which began within the ’90s.
“For example, someone with Type O might thrive on high-protein meats with lean meats and vegetables, while a Type A might do better with a more plant-forward menu … The vitamins that I had to pack for him daily in his little lunchbox was insane. The things that he eats to look that good … it makes a difference.”
Chebotar, who lives on the Upper West Side, cooked for Ryan Seacrest. Getty Images
Chebotar even has to signal NDAs to be able to work for some notable names, like a sure well-known Jennifer.
“The assistant was like, ‘Jennifer is really excited to meet you.’ And in my head, I was like, ‘I’m going to meet J.Lo.’ And it ended up being Jennifer Lawrence, which is still cool, but I was ready for J.Lo.”
Another of her celeb purchasers is actress Jenny Mollen, spouse of “American Pie” star Jason Biggs, who lives within the West Village.
“Sometimes Jenny would just call me and be like, ‘Hey, Laz [her son] wants to make a cake. Can you come over?’”
After graduating from Temple University in 2011, Chebotar — who was born within the Ukraine, raised in Brooklyn and now lives on the Upper West Side — took over the kitchen of her stepfather’s East Village restaurant Organic Grill.
“I did that for about seven years until I gave myself shingles and I was like, ‘I never want to do this again.’”
Upon commencement from faculty, Chebotar ran the kitchen of her stepfather’s East Village restaurant Organic Grill. Brian Zak/NY Post
Now, her bread and butter is serving as a personal chef in Manhattan, the place her purchasers have “some sort of dietary restriction or a busy schedule.”
“I have two little boys on the Upper East Side that I’ve cooked for for the past like six years and I make them dinner. I have a client on the Lower East Side three days a week that is allergic to raspberries, tomatoes, everything red,” she mentioned.
“Last week, I cooked two back-to-back 30-person Passovers in the Hamptons.”
Her new favourite consumer is a 95-year-old girl on Central Park West who hosts dinner events each different Tuesday.
“I basically create the menu, go shopping, prep everything, and then throw a dinner party for her and eight of her closest friends.”
She additionally will get paid to journey exterior of the town — and recalled a memorable weeklong gig in Miami.
“Someone flew me down to work on their yacht. And all they wanted was rotisserie chicken pulled apart, doused in barbecue sauce, put on a tortilla and put on the George Foreman grill.”
The premise behind “Yes, Chef!” is that contestants are nominated as a result of of their “big egos and hot tempers” and the winner — judged not just for their food, however their teamwork and how they improved their conduct — takes home a $250,000 grand prize.
Chebotar — who received Food Network’s competitors collection “Chopped” in 2020 — had her identify submitted by her classmate on the National Gourmet Institute in Flatiron.
“It’s that I don’t work well with others. I’ve just been burned so many times by other chefs and their egos,” she mentioned.
“I have been getting requests for larger events, and that’s when I do need to bring people in. So it’s hard letting that go.”
Chebotar was nominated for “Yes, Chef!” by her culinary college classmate. Brian Zak/NY Post
Chebotar marveled at how Martha Stewart, who hosts the show alongside Chef José Andrés, at all times seemed “stunning” on set.
“I’ve never seen better hair or outfits on a woman who’s 83 years old. Every day we were like, ‘Martha brings it again.’”
She’s at all times aspired to emulate Stewart, who’s proven her that “a woman can really do anything.”
“Look at everything that she’s accomplished,” she gushed.
“I mean, the goal has always been to be Martha Stewart in any situation, minus the jail time.”
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