With sympathy and candor, award-winning chef David George speaks openly of himself, the environment and the kitchen. “I’m very grateful because, oddly enough, thanks to television I’ve lost 130 kilos,” says the presentation of Robin Food: binge at gunpoint , a cooking show that Telecinco broadcast from Monday Monday to Friday at 14.30 and in the words of chef has saved his life.
It all started in 2010 with the release of the format in ETB2. Basque television opted for this feral chef with almost 270 kilos not hesitate to call himself sarcastically “whale” or “rhino” while cooking in front of cameras. But though his physical did not meet the standards of the average, two-time champion Spain kitchen became the audience favorite, surpassing the 850 programs and two million YouTube videos played on thanks to its proximity and spontaneity.
“I started with many questions, but people saw the thought.. ‘If I keep this weight can not keep doing tele’ And will shake ,” says the chef , with the help of his family and under medical supervision has risen from 267 to 136 kilos in the last two years in the eyes of viewers. Because every Monday De Jorge is weighed “the bitch of the scale” and commented on its progress while cooking.
“Many people told us that he has been able to go to the dentist or go to the doctor after to see me, “adds excited chef, in addition to dieting, first used a gastric balloon to have surgery after stomach reduction.
This phenomenon of communication and kitchen moves Now their recipes and their “good vibes” on national television from his set of over 300 square meters located on Lasarte restaurant Gipuzkoa his teacher and partner, the renowned chef Martin Berasategui.
“The novelty is recorded digitally and will have technical means that we did not and this is very important to us: our pornography is always forged in the ass of the pans, “says the chef, who also notes that Robin Food : binge at gunpoint presented a different theme each day.
Thus, Monday De Jorge continue its process of thinning presenting healthy and appetizing recipes, while continuing to weigh yourself in the program . “I have no feeling that I diet, which is what I try to convey Mondays.’m Eating better than ever and enjoy everything,” he says. Tuesdays present historical recipes, while Wednesdays quick dishes are the protagonists.
Thursdays holder seven Michelin stars, Martin Berasategui, will be placed in front of the stove preparing dishes for everyone. “Chefs are carriers of happiness We make cooking a feast and not a bitch because you think you have no hand will do everything:.. Soups, rice, cereals, fish, meat, seafood, snacks or sandwiches,” explains Laureate cook.
Friday comes the turn of the culinary perversions with Guarrindongadas . In this section, which led to curious De Jorge to submit their own space in Buenafuente – viewers send their creations to cook shameful, that plays in the program to test them. “I try all, usually the most disgusting. The most common are sausage with chocolate and condensed milk with anchovies, but there is everything,” he explains.
Because if anything characterizes this cook is that, despite to accumulate books, fans and national and international awards, when the apron gets its maximum is cooking without nonsense. “I made omelets, breaded steak, fried potatoes, I started the program taking a plastic box in the fridge with something that is half-pocho … And that’s what happens to everyone,” he says. Hence, the current crisis seems the right time to deliver its program. “Years ago we asked for a loan to go to Thailand at Easter, did strange things. And now we are all very tight. People make their home entertainment and home cooking. Recipes are hungry” sentence. And his fans give him right.
This SUV kitchen, whom Martin Berasategui forged identity card could be presented to the first championship of Spain who won , because I was still too young to participate-has published recipes, among other books, in In the kitchen is not played, which received the Best Book Award of the World in 2010 Gourmand World Cookbooks Awards; Over 999 recipes without nonsense; and Over 100 tasty recipes slimming but , published in 2012 and 2014 and co-written with Berasategui. “Joseph Conrad said that the purpose of cookbooks is the good of humanity. Cooking programs also have a purpose, that people enjoy,” he concludes.
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