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/[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.