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The Sporkful

After A Lifetime Of Eating, Gail Simmons Is Still Hungry

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Top Chef judge Gail Simmons never thought she’d have a career in food. Sure, her mom ran a cooking school in their home growing up. Yes, she worked in the kitchen on a kibbutz in Israel.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Quick heads up. This episode contains one bit of profanity a few minutes in.

0:05.6

Just like British Halloween here.

0:09.0

Arrow.

0:10.8

I'm not a fan of chocolate.

0:13.3

I watched the video of you and Tom Collicchio sampling a range of chocolate bars while

0:18.3

you were filming together for Top Chef in London.

0:21.5

And you did something, Gail, that really caught my eye, went by in a second. Most people probably

0:26.0

even noticed it. You were eating a candy bar called a whisper.

0:28.9

The whisper.

0:29.9

It's just a whisper.

0:30.9

Which is a chocolate with a big caramel ribbon in the middle and you broke it in half

0:35.3

and you pulled the two halves apart which created a long stretchy caramel thread.

0:40.1

Yes.

0:41.1

And you did this very deft maneuver where you just twisted your wrist a few times quickly

0:48.1

to wrap the thread of caramel around the outside of the candy bar. It was almost like

0:53.5

the candy equivalent of Torland's spaghetti on a fork.

0:55.7

Yes.

0:56.7

And you did it so effortlessly that I thought this is not the first time Gail has done this

1:01.0

move.

1:02.0

Let me tell you something, Dan.

1:04.0

I am a professional number one. It's not my first rodeo. And I'm not going to waste

1:08.8

good caramel.

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