ACTION BRONSON: You see that technique?
Look at the technique.
Ah!
Open your mouth.
It's Action Bronson.
I'm making food.
Getting ready for the festival.
Rabun, all kinds of wild things going on.
Growing up in Flushing, there's just all kinds of
different people all over the place.
You go to your friend's house.
You eat some real cuisine, because their family is
Indian, or Spanish, or like my family, Albanian.
My friends would come to my house.
My grandmother would have food.
They'd be what the fuck is this?
My grandmother was definitely one of my biggest influencers.
She'd be in the house all day, cooking, cleaning.
And I guess, you know, she rubbed off on me.
I'm roasting cumin seed and the coriander seed to bring
out its flavor.
And then I crush them up, throw them into the lamb.
You can smell it as its getting warmed up.
Smell that.
The lamb burger is something that I came up with.
I'm sure a lot of people do variations of it, but this is
my version.
This is something that when I worked at my father's
restaurant it would be the special, and it would always
be sold out all the time.
So the lamb consists of crushed garlic, a little bit
of black pepper, kosher salt, some coriander, some cumin,
roasted, a little hint of cinnamon, and love.
This is one of my favorite things to eat, a nice little
lamb burger.
It reminds me of my homeland.
It reminds me of my grandmother.
Get some of that good lamb fat on it.
I want to put that all over the bread.
Get a little bit of that yogurt on the bottom.
Hit it with the bib lettuce, and then
cut the tomato perfectly.
Let me get a decent size slice.
As time went on, I dropped out of high school.
And I figured, you know, why not do something that I like?
I like eating.
Let's go to culinary school.
I pretty much started out as just the help around my
father's place, and just worked my way up there.
I started taking over.
Then I left for a while, went to a bunch of different other
places in the city.
Listen, my music is self-explanatory.
I just want to sing songs to you.
Actually decided to do a video.
My man was like, hey, let me film you while
you're in the kitchen.
I was like, all right.
Good evening, everybody.
Once again, this is Action Bronsonelli.
Welcome to Action in the Kitchen, Part Three.
We're gonna make the Bronson burger.
This is beautiful chopped meat.
80/20 ratio, which means 80% meat, 20% fat.
Another part to the Bronson burger.
Here we go.
See these?
Shitake mushrooms.
Doing music, my friend Mahem Maren started me.
He was just going to the studio, and I'd go
hang out with them.
And I just caught on, just started rapping.
And then I started actually enjoying it, you know?
The first mixed tape was called "Bon Appetit Bitch,"
and that had 37 songs on it.
Then after that, "Blue Chips." Boom.
There's never a shortage of material with me.
I travel a lot.
I see a lot of things.
I've experienced a lot of things.
I have an imagination.
It's not really hard to muster up a song.
You know, it's not normal that you see a rapper also a chef.
Look at this.
Come here.
Focus.
Look at that.
You see the flesh?
Watch.
Oh, man.
It's a squirter.
Be careful now.
Why do I even rap?
There's certain dishes that people just cannot make better
than me in my mind.
I like the way it tastes, so I'm going to have to make that
for myself.
Cooking is always going to be in my life.
You cannot rap forever, so I'm going to 100% be
opening my own spot.
It's pretty serious.
The people will definitely be enjoying this food.
-Action Bronson!
Action Bronson!