Bobby Flay, Jennifer Lopez Joe Scarnici/Getty Pictures for USOPC;Mike Marsland/Getty Pictures for Prime Video(2)
With a long time of expertise within the leisure business, Emmy-winning chef Bobby Flay has labored with tons of of celebrities all through his profession. However there’s one star he’s dying to prepare dinner for.
“I believe it’d be enjoyable to prepare dinner for Jennifer Lopez,” Flay, 59, reveals solely in his 25 Issues You Don’t Know About Me characteristic within the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now. “I like her vitality. I believe it could be actually enjoyable.”
What would the world-renowned chef make for J. Lo? It relies on what she likes!
“I don’t know what she needs to eat or what her meals aversions may be. I’d must ask her,” Flay added. “When you’re coming to my home, I’ll say to you, ‘Are there issues that you just like and issues that you just don’t like?’ As a result of I by no means need to make a mushroom pasta and also you’re like, ‘Oh, I can’t stand mushrooms.’”
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The invitation is open, Jennifer!
Preserve scrolling for extra enjoyable anecdotes from Flay, together with the stunning occupation he would’ve pursued if he wasn’t a chef:
1. My favourite consolation meal is a cheeseburger or my Piri-Piri rooster, which is a collaboration between Portuguese and African delicacies. It’s a roasted rooster with spicy chilis.
2. I accumulate molcajetes.
3. My favourite recipe in my new cookbook, Bobby Flay: Chapter One, is the paella with shellfish, rooster and chorizo. It’s an important family-style dish and has somewhat bit for everyone.
4. One movie star I’d prefer to prepare dinner for is Jennifer Lopez. I believe it could be enjoyable. I like her vitality.
5. My favourite e-book is The Zuni Café Cookbook.
6. My first automotive was a Volkswagen Scirocco.
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7. My most starstruck second was after I met Sienna Miller at a film premiere. I used to be undoubtedly burdened.
8. My favourite merchandise in my wardrobe is a Patek Philippe pocket watch. It’s an vintage, I find it irresistible. It makes me really feel like I’m in Peaky Blinders. It was a present a very long time in the past and each every so often I break it out.
9. My alternate occupation can be mayor of New York. Keep tuned.
10. “Good Instances” by Stylish jogs my memory of being an adolescent able to exit to the golf equipment. My favourite line is, “Clams on the half shell and curler skates, curler skates.”
11. Gordon Ramsay is my dream visitor to have on Beat Bobby Flay: Vacation Throwdown. We’ve had a pleasant rivalry for many years [but] by no means actually performed something collectively. One factor that we’ve got in widespread is that we each have eating places in Caesars Palace [Las Vegas Hotel and Casino].
Bobby Flay, Gordon Ramsay Cassidy Sparrow/Getty Pictures for The Home of Creed and Remy Martin;Leon Bennett/Getty Pictures
12. I dropped out of highschool after I was 16 years previous.
13. I used to be the primary chef to get a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame [in 2015]. It’s the proudest second of my profession.
14. My first job was delivering pizzas in sixth grade.
15. The dish I like to make for individuals in my life is a scallop dish with avocado, corn [and] relish on crispy flour tortillas. It’s in all probability essentially the most requested for factor from my pals. It’s the perfect chew of meals. You could find it in chapter one [in my book].
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16. I’ve been an athlete my entire life, however tennis was one of many sports activities I by no means actually performed. Now I’m taking classes. I like tennis higher [than pickleball]. I root for Madison Keys on the ladies’s facet, and on the boys’s facet, I like [Novak] Djokovic. I believe [Carlos] Alcaraz is wonderful. I went to the Olympics this 12 months and I noticed the ultimate between Djokovic and Alcaraz. It was wonderful.
17. American Hustle is my favourite film. [It stars] Jennifer Lawrence, Christian Bale, Jeremy Renner and Bradley Cooper, and the wardrobe was so cool.
18. Farrah Fawcett was my movie star crush rising up. Suppose Marilyn Monroe, however [for] my period. Charlie’s Angels.
Farrah Fawcett in CHARLIE’S ANGELS. Cowl Pictures
19. My favourite exercise is Pilates with the reformer.
20. I’m a New Yorker and journey the subway on a regular basis. After I was a child, we used to have to purchase tokens for the subway, then there was a MetroCard for a very long time. However now, no one makes use of them anymore since you simply use your bank card or Apple Pay. After I’m the mayor of New York, I’ll change the regulation. The subway will probably be free for everybody.
21. I decompress with a mezcal margarita after a protracted day.
22. Probably the most influential individual in my life is my father. He makes certain that I follow the basics of fine dwelling and doing the correct factor. He by no means lets me neglect that.
23. One meals I’d by no means contact or embrace in a recipe is durian. It’s an Asian fruit that has the worst aroma and I can’t be round it.
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24. I’ve been all over the place in Southeast Asia, however the one factor left on my bucket record is to go to Thailand.
25. The Amalfi Coast is my favourite place to trip.
Beat Bobby Flay: Vacation Throwdown airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Meals Community.
With reporting by Lexi Carson
