So I feel like there are more celebrity foodies in this world than ever before.

Everyone seems to be a foodie in Hollywood right now.

You said the F word.

Today on the eater upsell, we're going to be talking to Mike Solomon of one of the

kings of the Philly restaurant scene. You might know him from his restaurant

Sahav which is getting all sorts of national accolades.

He also has the federal donuts restaurants, which are beloved inexpensive eats.

Yeah, donuts and fried chicken.

But before we talk to him, Greg, there's something I want to talk to you about.

There are a lot of celebrities who are really into food.

Foodies.

I have a problem with that word in a non-dogmatic way.

Yeah. Like, I don't automatically recoil when someone says it, but I do think it implies a degree of being a jerk that I don't want to be. I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying.

Who do you think kind of started this thing? I have a few ideas. I feel like the kind of

of King of Celebrity Foodie Mountain is as he's on sorry that's exactly who I was going to say yeah

From early on in his career like when he was just sort of doing stand-up in New York and then when he started kind of entering liminally the realms of national celebrity he always has been

kind of hanging out with chefs and being very much aware of that kind of chef as

celebrity phenomenon. I don't know how much of this is calculated and how much of this is just a byproduct

with the fact that he went to NYU and in New York it's impossible to get away

from chef as celebrity. And I think that he was also I think he's always been a part of

stand-up talking about food and chick-fly and stuff. Then there was a thing on food and

wreck didn't he have that thing about funny food words? Oh yeah where he like

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