I don't cook, but if I did I'd want to do it in this kitchen! I caught up with the sassiest of the rock and roll cooking queens, Nadia G of Bitchin' Kitchen, shown on the Cooking Channel and Food Network Canada. We talked rock and roll, tattoos, and how comedy and cooking work like a dream. and she kept me in stitches while doing it. Seriously.How are you doing today?
I'm good. I'm very good. We're actually wrapping our second season, so that's pretty exciting. We've been in production since May 2011, so it'll be good to wrap it up and throw a big party, and then I'm heading to SXSW. So lots of exciting things going on.
Oh, that's cool. So my first question is for our readers who might not be familiar with your show, which I love by the way... how would you describe Bitchin' Kitchen?
Sure. Bitchin' Kitchen is a comedy cooking show where every week we choose a topic whether it's break-up brunches, rehab recipes, dysfunctional family pizza night. We have a couple of laughs about that scene and cook up a meal that goes along with it.
How did you come up with the idea to merge comedy and cooking?
The short answer is I basically grew up in a comedy cooking show. My family's kitchen was where we had our biggest laughs, best conversations. And it is very much about the food for me, but it's also about the story that gets you to the plate. So that's one way of looking at how I got to Bitchin' Kitchen.
Another way is I spent my 20s doing skit comedy, and I did grow up in a food-obsessed Italian family. So at a certain point, I said to myself, "Wow, wouldn't it be awesome to meld the two things that I love the most – food and comedy," and came up with the tangible pitch for Bitchin' Kitchen.
