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Podcast One presents Starving for Attention with Richard Blaze, an entertaining behind-the-scenes look at the world of food,

where you'll hear from anyone and everyone from the culinary industry,

including restaurateurs, TV hosts, celebrity chefs, producers of your favorite cooking shows,

and many more. Now here's your host, Richard Blaze.

Hey, everyone, welcome to Starving for attention. Richard Blaze is here. Jasmine Blazes here. And soon, walking in the door, Nikki Nakayama will be here. You might know her from her amazing restaurants and Naka in Los Angeles or from season one of Chef's Table. Only the second chef, I think, that we've had in here from chef's table.

Grand Acitz was one.

Right, right, right.

She is just like, to me, super serious, like, fine dining chefs.

One of these chefs who does only tasting menus, right?

I mean, what you've watched for on chef table or...

Right, which is almost like, i guess that's really interesting i want to yeah i can't wait to

meet her because it is one of those things where like chef's table paints the chefs as like these

very sort of quiet souls and artists yeah like very precious and very like serious almost in an

intimidating in a good way certainly but almost in an intimidating way yeah where. Where on the Food Network side, it's almost the same.

I just want to smack that guy on his back.

Want to hang out and drink a lot beer with that guy.

Totally different.

But Nikki Nakayama stepping up in here as we...

That reminds me of you.

We just were talking about that serial podcast.

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