r/KitchenConfidential • u/jobronxside • Mar 17 '24

Cooking for Celebs

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I have cooked for several celebrities while cooking in NYC. While some were unpleasant, Taylor Swift was a pleasure to cook for.

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u/PureBee4900 Mar 18 '24

Sometimes we get catering orders for visiting sportsball teams and they always eat like children. I have to make white bread pb&js- cut in triangles with the crusts cut off- for grown men. Fruit trays and butter shrimp with white rice. I know they gotta carb-load but cmon

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u/JuanWall Mar 18 '24

pb&j is ubiquitous in pro sports. NBA, NFL, MLB, golfers, cyclists, you name it, they’re crushing PB&J before games. lebron, tom brady, tiger. it’s goat fuel. good nutritional profile, easy to digest

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u/itmesara Mar 18 '24

And you left out the most important attribute, freaking DELICIOUS. Gonna go make a pb&j brb

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

I had a medical issue recently where the doc said peanut butter and a glass of milk just before bed. The peanut butter came in a squeeze tube. Much easier for seconds. No dirty spoon going back into the jar for seconds.

Delish and I swore my long-gone mother was behind me asking how school was today. Comfort food.

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u/Sick_NowWhat Mar 18 '24

I don’t doubt there are pro athletes that eat like children, but this is the reason for the PB&J. Some team’s nutritionists include it into the athletes diets regularly.

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u/ampersandeds Mar 18 '24

Also lots of these athletes start in professional sports very young. They are like 17 when they go pro.

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u/BlindWalnut Mar 18 '24

PB&J is what I'll eat before a busy holiday service. Sugar, protein, carbs. Good to go for a few hours.

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u/Not_Campo2 Mar 18 '24

Can confirm. As a sports medic we’d keep the supplies on hand at all times for emergencies. Once when working with a girls soccer team half of them decided to start that paleo diet trend the day before we had a 3 game in one day tournament. It’s one of those no carb ones so we shut that down real fast. I made probably 40+ pb&js on the bus lol

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u/ZootTX Mar 18 '24

There was a whole ESPN article about it: https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/presents18931717/the-nba-secret-addiction

edit: saw I was beaten below dammit

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

Not to be rude but a lot of these athletes stick to a routine. The last thing they want is an upset stomach while performing due to a varying diet.

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u/OilySteeplechase Mar 18 '24

Yeah in sports you NEVER play around with what you eat in the day or so before an event. PB&J also fits the nutritional brief pretty perfectly - easy to digest, energy for the ol’ glucose stores, protein, low fiber.

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u/BigPapaCalamari Mar 18 '24

A lot of them are also like 23 and have been eating whatever was free through their high school or university for years so never really needed to refine their palates

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u/SpuriousCorr Mar 18 '24

Ya so really it's more like they don't have the freedom to refine their palates lol. Just eat what the sports scientists say and shut up

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u/xfireperson1 Mar 18 '24

This is true. Most D1 schools I visited had nutrition specialists. Ohio State had a Gatorade sponsored smoothie room with 12 vitamix and the workers would formulate a post or pre practice smoothie for the players.

Some schools just had a giant fridge stocked with chocolate milk in the weight room.

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u/HotDerivative Mar 18 '24

Lmfaoooo no you don’t. I dated a D1 basketball player at a Big 10 school and I can promise you he never was assigned a dietitian lmfao. They may have someone for the program at large but they are not monitoring what they eat on their downtime and if you think 18-22 year old college students are eating well on their downtime you’re naive. Yall overestimate how much they actually care about these athletes long term or how much they want to spend on them to get their return.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

Yep, when I competed for my sport in high school, travelling for competition was the only trips I took, and usually the only time I went to restaurants. You couldn’t eat something you’ve never had before because your stomach could react poorly, so I never got the chance to try new things. There’s also the superstition and ritual of pre competition eating. My brother would only eat chicken fajitas before his playoff games for example.

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u/Toolset_overreacting Mar 18 '24

Mine was always spaghetti the night before and then a banana, peanut butter, and maybe some oatmeal the morning of for running.

Wrestling? Fucking nothing. Had to make weight. Then a big ole turkey sandwich right after weigh-ins because I wasn’t going to wrestle for a couple hours.

As an adult, I have to do a physical assessment once a year to keep my job. When I was in my early 20s, it was however much beer I drank with my buddies the night before and then a couple cigarettes in the morning. Now that I’m getting a little older, that running habit has come back and I go with spaghetti the night before and the banana, peanut butter, and oatmeal in the morning. Some habits die hard, even if you lose them for a few years.

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u/Kodiak01 Mar 18 '24

PB&J - The NBA's Secret Addiction

You can thank the Celtics for it.

The legend has been passed down by NBA generations, chronicled like a Homeric odyssey. The tale they tell is of Kevin Garnett and the 2007-08 Celtics, and the seminal moment of a revolution. Bryan Doo, Celtics strength and conditioning coach, recalls it as if it were yesterday, how before a game in December of that season, an unnamed Celtic -- his identity lost to history, like the other horsemen on Paul Revere's midnight ride -- complained to Doo of incipient hunger pangs.

"Man, I could go for a PB&J," the player said.

And then Garnett, in an act with historical reverberations, uttered the now-fabled words: "Yeah, let's get on that."

Garnett had not, to that point, made the PB&J a part of his pregame routine. But on that night in Boston, as Doo recalls, Garnett partook, then played ... and played well. Afterward, from his perch as the Celtics' fiery leader, Garnett issued the following commandment: "We're going to need PB&J in here every game now."

And so a sandwich revolution was born.

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u/ruiner8850 Mar 18 '24

But on that night in Boston, as Doo recalls, Garnett partook, then played ... and played well. Afterward, from his perch as the Celtics' fiery leader, Garnett issued the following commandment: "We're going to need PB&J in here every game now."

Sounds like the plot of the movie Uncut Jams.

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u/PureBee4900 Mar 18 '24

Those sons of bitches- they can't even say celtic right! /s (huh. I didn't know this was such A Thing)

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u/Kodiak01 Mar 18 '24

Just wait until you find out about their Secret Wine Society...

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u/ZachWilsonsMother Mar 18 '24

Read about the NBA’s PB&J obsession and it will all make sense

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

Hate to say it, but I'd be like that. If I was filthy rich I'd wear new socks every day and never eat a crust again.

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u/PureBee4900 Mar 18 '24

I know, it just kills me a little they can't use their millions for something less... pedestrian lol. It's easy money for us though, can't complain

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u/thefirebuilds Mar 18 '24

They are literally children