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- Oh, hi Delish come on into my kitchen.
- [Delish] How long have you lived here?
- I've had this place for about a year and a month,
but I've probably slept here for a total of like
three months cause I'm traveling all the time
and I'm never here.
- [Delish] What is your favorite part of the kitchen?
- [Antonio] My favorite part of the kitchen.
I would say it's at the island because that's where everyone
sort of congregates right when they come to my house.
I had no idea that I had a garbage until I discovered
that the garbage is actually right over here.
I can be a little aloof sometimes and I didn't realize
that all my pots and pans could actually be stored
right in here.
And then this is evidence of my oldest sister, Carolina.
She was visiting here recently.
She hates the sound of clinging pots.
So she put like these little towels in between all
of my pots and pans.
- [Delish] Do you have a favorite hot your pan
in your collection?
- This is my version of the best souvenir ever.
Cause it's one that you have for life.
My pride and joy.
This is my favorite little pot.
I boil water in here just cause it makes me think of Paris
and what a lovely time I had while I was there.
- [Delish] If you could change one thing in your kitchen,
what would it be?
- If I could change one thing in my kitchen, space.
My kitchen is right in the middle of the apartment,
so it's kind of away from any windows,
but that's New York, it's what you sign up for.
- [Delish] What is the biggest disaster you've ever had
in this kitchen?
- The biggest disaster I've ever had in this kitchen,
it wasn't like a total disaster,
but I had a few friends over for dinner several months back
and we all kind of got distracted.
The water was still boiling with pasta water and the pasta
got to the bottom and then it crisped up
and it got really burnt.
So it wasn't like a total nightmare.
It was just a pain in the butt cleaning it afterwards.
But that's as dramatic as it gets.
- [Delish] Who is the coolest person you've ever cooked
for in his kitchen?
- The coolest person I've ever cooked
for in this kitchen, Rema
Rema is one of the most important people in my life.
I think she's the coolest person I know
because she's always herself.
She never puts it on.
She never has to like shift, which I really appreciate
and respect.
- [Delish] What's your coffee order?
What are you drinking today?
- I have two double shots of espresso, over ice and like
a generous splash of oat milk.
That's typically what I have in the morning.
- [Delish] What are three things we will always find
in your fridge or freezer?
- Let's see.
This is maple syrup from Vermont that my dad gets.
He's a physician.
He works at a hospital and one of the nurses actually
has her own maple farm and they make their own maple syrup
and they have these really cute stickers and they have like
different gradients of like the color, the light amber
is really nice as well, especially on waffles.
I really love it.
And in vinegar sometimes and mayonnaise, sorry, not sorry.
You actually can't buy this.
I'm basically a child and I'm very nostalgic.
A lot of what I do gets run by nostalgia.
I love Gorton's fish sticks when I was a child
and I ate them.
They were basically the size of my finger
and now they are whole filets.
A favorite way to have it since you asked
is with ketchup because it's really the only
way to have it.
And also frozen peas, which I definitely have somewhere
I don't really understand moderation very well.
So I'll have a whole bag of peas
with my Gorton's fish sticks and then some ketchup
on the side.
The lovely folks at Belvedere sent me over a bottle of vodka
with my name on it and also it lights up.
My father is a Polish man and the Belvedere is basically
like Poland's presidential palace.
It's like a symbol for Poland for a Polish father
to have his Polish son's name on a bottle of vodka
was by far 100% the proudest moment my dad ever had,
it wasn't, the Emmy's, wasn't my university degree,
it wasn't coming out.
It was none of that.
It was his son's name on a bottle of vodka.
- [Delish] What are three things we will always find
in your pantry or your cabinets?
- These are called smart sweets, not an endorsement,
but I love them.
They're shockingly low in sugar, shockingly high in fiber.
These are awesome especially for breakfast.
I have massive bags of these and I fill up my little jar.
When I ordered this jar, I thought it was gonna
be this massive jar and I was so excited cause I always
wanted to have a candy jar as a grownup.
And so this one's a lot smaller, but sometimes in life
you get what you need and not necessarily what you want.
So maybe it was a sign, but let's look inside the pantry.
We were filming our latest season of Queer Eye
that just came out.
I was queer, I were in Japan.
And while we were there we tried some amazing foods
that changed my life.
One of them are these honey butter roasted almonds.
I believe they're South Korean.
They taste like butter and honey and an almond.
And apparently they're not that bad for you.
But I found them online and now I order
them in multiple bags.
And whenever somebody comes over, I always give them one
and so I'm constantly reordering these.
I'm always fully decked out in all the gummies cause I love
them and it's like my little treat at the end of the day.
I love chickpeas.
I always go for the low sodium because they're great in any
solid and they're really good for you.
Cinnamon is a really important one.
Cinnamon is probably the spice that I go through the most.
I put a lot of it in my smoothies.
It's a really good anti-inflammatory or so I'm told always
always a lot of almond butter, like 10 different types
of mustard olive oils in balsamic vinegars.
I can't get enough.
My favorite gift to get, it's a good olive oil.
Good olive oil makes me really happy.
I can just sip on it with the spoon and it brings
me a lot of joy.
Always have at least one can of San Marzano tomatoes.
If I wanna make like a lazy tomato sauce or like some kind
of a bull on ice situation during the week and if I don't
wanna leave the house and I have some frozen turkey.
- [Delish] Anything we'll never find in your kitchen?
- Food coloring, fake food coloring makes me really
uncomfortable and I get it that it's really cute on cupcakes
and on cakes.
If that's something that you will definitely never find.
But what I lack in food coloring and all that kind of cake
decorating stuff, I more than make up for in the shocking
amount of salt that I have, I have these little mini packs
of Jacobsen salt that you can travel with so you can always
have your flake salt.
I have my smoked maldin, regular maldin
a massive tub of Jacobson.
There's really no shortage of salts here.
And then just in case there's more salt over here
and more spices.
Nice little honorable mention.
I love Old Bay seasoning on my popcorn.
I think it's delicious.
For Old Bay they found out that I loved their stuff
and so they sent me a really nice label with me on it.
So unfortunately it's not available in stores.
- [Delish] Can you talk us through some of the cookbooks
that you have in the kitchen?
- I only have a few cookbooks that are actually showing
all the really old school ones from like the old Esquire
Party Book that Ted Allen gave me, which is right down
there, for some of my favorite ladies from Chrissy Teigen,
Amy Sedaris, Nigella Lawson.
My first cookbook I ever, God was actually Feast
and this is the one right here.
Simien who I love, Salt Fat Acid Heat and then Ina
cause she's just a legend.
I do have a lot more cookbooks.
They're actually way up here along with my tagging
and it actually goes down and there's a whole other layer
of books there as well.
If I have one book that recently I'm super obsessed
with Sohov, it's chef and founder, a chef Mike Solomonov
and he does really incredible food, very traditional
from Israeli to Middle Eastern food.
He actually sent me his book, which I'm really excited
to cook for.
When there's a book that I really wanna cook for so that it
stays on my radar.
I put it in my kitchen and I know exactly what I'm gonna do.
So this week I'm going to make a couple.
I think it's twice cooked eggplant definitely
and I'm going to do some skewers really really good.
So now we're just going to do like a rough little impromptu
walk through my kitchen and I'm just going to go through
some of my favorite things.
I love this thing.
I use it every single day.
It heats up really quickly.
I have a lot of people in my house.
I get to like bust out a lot of coffees when I need to.
And my favorite new thing that I found out about
this is that the seal where you put your coffee beans
into, this thing is UV protected cause apparently you have
to UV protect your coffee beans cause they get ruined
otherwise I do love me some smeg.
I love kinda like the clean air streams style design
you have to watch out to make sure not to like burn yourself
if you're like using them too long.
But they're so beautiful to look at that I really like them.
This is a little embarrassing, but I have a beautiful
KitchenAid Stand Mixer.
I have not used it yet.
I'm really hoping for the day that I decide
to bake something, but also I'm not really a baker.
So when we were filming in Tokyo, one of our producers,
his brother worked in gardens, and he would find old pieces
of wood and he would make his own cutting boards.
And he actually made this for me as a gift, which I thought
was really beautiful and thoughtful and he has this little
signature right over here.
And this my friend Beth sent to me that I can put really hot
pots on, so I get to think about her.
She's in Kansas city.
This is my massive stockpot, which is very dramatic,
but I like to have it out also.
I'd literally have nowhere to fit it.
So it's kind of stuck here.
This is my five-week dip tea candle, which I love,
but once it's done I couldn't bring myself to throw it out
because I'm a borderline hoarder and so I put all my wooden
spoons in it.
This is my collection of knives.
I have a lot more knives in here.
Knives is definitely the thing that I have,
I wouldn't say too much of honorable mention.
His name is Max Polio and he makes these knives
and this is actually an oyster shucker that he gave me
that I use on cheese boards cause I don't shuck oysters
that often, but I do make cheese boards very often.
And then these are brass, Indian brass cups
that I got at a place called RW Guild,
which is basically one of my favorite duos
of interior designers.
They have an awesome restaurant on Mercer street.
I have vitamix, which is probably my single most used tool
because I just make smoothies all the freaking time.
And then here I have a whole bunch of supplements
that I use, muscle big into bee pollen and kind of learning
about that and sun potion is actually a really good brand
and they make a lot of really cool stuff
and fish oil.
Fish oil is very important.
It's actually really good for your joints if you're working
out so you can have less pain than if you're torturous
yourself during the week the way I am with workouts,
fish oils, really good to keep your joints all lubed up
so you're good to go.
So I have scented candles all throughout my apartment,
but the one place where I don't put them is in my kitchen
because I don't like scented candles kind of interfering
with the food.
But one thing I do after like a day of cooking, if I kind
of want to like neutralize Papier d'Armenie is really nice.
Lydia Aldridge, she sent over these really nice incense
that I've been burning and so these were nice to use.
When I was touring for Antony in the kitchen,
I had the honor of being interviewed by Alice Waters
in San Francisco and she actually gave me this little fruit
dish from Shape Pennies that she brought.
And she brought...
There were some plums, there were two pairs
and there were some fresh figs.
One of them broke.
So I only have three left, but the 39th anniversary
of Shape Pennies.
And she brought me a little glasses as well she's so sweet.
Well I think that's it.
We can finish with a piece of art just to switch things up.
It's no secret.
My favorite band are The Strokes, I've been listening
to them forever since before they were signed, which leads
me to this piece.
One of my very favorite photographers, Ryan McGinley
was following The Strokes around right when their first
album came out "Is This it."
And they weren't signed yet.
And they performed a sold out show radio city music hall.
And he was there to document this photo.
So I've met every single one of The Strokes
except Nikolai Fraiture.
And this is a photo of Nikolai Fraiture's back,
As he's looking in, there's something about the warmth
and the energy of like everyone just so excited for them.
And there are this like untapped superpower of rock
that are just like on the verge of exploding.
But I just think there's like such a great energy
to this image.
I love looking at it every time I walked into the kitchen.
Maybe one day I'll meet Nikolai Fraiture.
So Delish thank you so much for following me around
my kitchen as we literally walked in circles.
Thanks for watching.
I'll see you soon, bye
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