Today on the eater upsell we're talking to Hugh Atchison, the super cool,

super funny, super smart Georgia-based chef of five restaurants and author of like three cookbooks

including the recent the broad fork which is all about vegetables. He's smart and

I cannot wait to talk with him but But before we chat with you, you know, Helen, there's something I wanted to mention to you,

just kind of touch base.

I don't know what your morning routine is, but for me it's usually reading page six.

And there's something I find very fascinating.

It's a continuing storyline about how Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the great actors, I think, of our generation, huge box office

Titan, environmentalist, X, Y, he does a lot, he's a big guy, he loves going to the doucheous clubs around when he's in New York like every single night and being flanked by models and getting bottle service

I guess I wouldn't expect anything less from him.

I mean...

I just like it's like a phase he never outgrew and I find that so fascinating.

It is weird, I mean like he has really good taste in movie projects and environmentally friendly

automobiles and then just has the worst taste possible in how to spend the

hours of 11 p.m. to 4 a.m.

yeah and as I understand it it's kind of like well this is how I imagine it is that he

rolls into Tao or one oak or one of those places at like 10 and then just kind of gets a booth and he just holds

court for like seven hours and celebrities pop in and say there's his buddy

Jonah Hill hey there's Jamie Fox, they're going to come say,

yeah sure, let's get another bottle. And then by the end of the night he's like flanked with all these

models and then, you know, he leaves at last call and that's just kind of his nightly ritual.

That's a beautiful picture you know I mean it's terrible but it's also like I

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