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Good For You with Whitney Cummings

Grant Achatz

Good For You with Whitney Cummings

Whitney Cummings & Studio71

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.2 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

World renowned chef and restaurateur Grant Achatz is our guest today talking to Whitney about losing his taste for a year after battling cancer, cricket croissants, and the time he was served pig vagina.  Achatz has won numerous  accolades from prominent culinary institutions and publications, including the Food and Wine's "best new chefs" award in 1998, "Rising Star Chef of the Year Award" for 1999, "Best Chef in the United States" for 1998 and a 2003 "Who's Who Inductee" from the James Beard Foundation.  His restaurants ALINEA and NEXT are located in Chicago along with his cocktail bar THE AVIARY. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

doop a doop, boop boop boop, grahantasha is on the show today. He's the best chef, the

0:07.9

bop boop best. Before we get to him, life can be overwhelming. Super overwhelming, many

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I know your bum doesn't stop singing, but it was just staring to hurt my left boob.

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have to be like, I know with this face, how could he not text me back? I mean, every now and then

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sponsored by BetterHelp. You told me to say that four times and I didn't because I have good

1:10.5

boundaries and I don't need anyone to like me because I use BetterHelp onto the show.

1:15.5

Look, I don't know how I keep conning legendary people into doing this podcast. I have no idea,

1:28.6

but today we have... Am I allowed to just call you the best chef in the world?

1:33.2

Yeah. Haven't you gotten that? Those are the kind of awards you get. They're just like best chef

1:38.5

ever. Like you looked at your list of awards and it's just like the greatest chef

1:44.9

who ever lived. Like, you know, how else... I'm in very lucky. I'm in very lucky.

1:54.0

When I listen to you on another podcast and if someone that has followed your career

2:00.3

and you know is a dork, I'm a... The way that a lot of people fan out when they meet a comedian

2:06.4

or a musician or I geek out with chefs like people at the top and at the top of their field.

2:12.0

So like I get star struck when I meet you know and around some like you. So I'm going to be like

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