No Style Like Residence With Antoni Porowski Exhibits Celebrities’ Household Historical past By Meals

You possibly can be taught so much about somebody from what they eat. After all there’s the apparent — the meals that they like and dislike — however diving deeper into the historical past of somebody’s eating regimen can uncover much more insights, starting from core reminiscences to the way in which tradition has formed their meals preferences.

It’s this energy of culinary historical past that Queer Eye star Antoni Porowksi leverages to be taught extra about a few of your favourite celebrities in his upcoming present No Style Like Residence with Antoni Porowski. The brand new collection from Nationwide Geographic isn’t a chat present or centered round interviews, however you’ll nonetheless stroll away with a greater understanding of who its friends are. 

On this culinary journey collection, Porowski spends every episode taking one celeb — the star-studded lineup consists of Florence Pugh, Awkwafina, Justin Theroux, James Marsden, Issa Rae, and Henry Golding — on a journey to expertise and find out about what their ancestors ate. 

This isn’t the primary time a number has used meals to immediate highly effective individuals to open up. Each Sean Evans and Amelia Dimoldenberg speak to celebrities whereas snacking on hen of their respective YouTube collection, Scorching Ones and Hen Store Date. However Porowski’s new mission is a dramatic departure from these codecs, as an alternative utilizing family tree and household historical past to assist his friends be taught extra about themselves, and take audiences alongside for the experience.

Giving somebody a guided tour of what the sooner generations of their household ate just isn’t a fast and simple activity, and Porowski brings every of his friends to a number of areas. Throughout his time with James Marsden, they begin by consuming the actor’s childhood favourite, chicken-fried steak in Texas, solely to later find yourself sipping a German beer and mountain climbing by means of the Bavarian mountains. The Montreal-born Queer Eye star and Awkwafina take a journey from consuming jajangmyeon (a Korean-Chinese language noodle dish with a black bean sauce) in New York Metropolis to making ready kimchi in a yard in South Korea.

It may be troublesome to make high-profile individuals really feel protected sharing their private lives with the general public, and letting an viewers watch as they be taught new details about their very own historical past is much more susceptible. Porowksi says he labored to create an surroundings the place friends would really feel snug, telling Meals & Wine “the way in which that I leaned in is that I simply obtained private. I shared my very own tales. I requested them questions on themselves and simply leaned in. It’s a must to form of develop a way of mutual belief and know that there are not any gotcha moments right here.”

The host’s personal ardour for meals and want to create a optimistic expertise comes throughout authentically by means of No Style Like Residence. As Porowski leads every of his companions by means of totally different farm excursions, cooks tastings, and extra, he explains that “the one aim of that is so that you can have a extremely great expertise you possibly can go on to hopefully your children, or different members of your loved ones, relying in your life scenario. After which hopefully for lots of people to look at and simply be uncovered to those lovely tales and to hopefully… get inquisitive about themselves.”

The journey that Nationwide Geographic and Porowksi curate for every visitor is exclusive, and focuses on experiential moments that permit them to really feel or style the identical moments as their ancestors. Issa Rae picks and cooks with the moringa leaves that her nice nice grandmother might have used as a healer. Florence Pugh learns flip herring into kippers, the smoked fish that her nice nice nice grandfather doubtless offered whereas working as a fishmonger.

All through every journey all over the world you possibly can see what conjures up every star probably the most, and actually makes them excited. Porowski recollects one second when he and Pugh tasted a Yorkshire pudding collectively and have been each instantly enraptured, saying “We simply each began laughing hysterically out of pleasure. And it’s extremely uncommon that I’ve somebody who shares that deep ardour for meals as I do. And to have or not it’s an ideal stranger. And from that second, at the very least for me, it was like, ‘oh, we’re pals.’”

The authenticity that you just really feel from No Style Like House is grounded within the cautious planning of Nationwide Geographic. Every episode is extensively researched earlier than filming, with genealogists even going to areas months earlier than filming to confirm oral histories in locations like Borneo and Senegal.

That devotion to accuracy and element extends to the expertise that every celeb has whereas filming — Porowski notes that featured friends “usually meet a genealogist or an knowledgeable [and have] a few hours free reign to ask no matter it was that they actually wished to ask, particularly about meals or members of the family or no matter it was.”

There are few issues extra disarming than studying one thing about your self that you just didn’t already know. Think about doing that in entrance of a digital camera, and the stakes are even greater. However by making a welcoming environment that encourages questions, and creates the chance to ask them, Porowski and Nationwide Geographic are permitting celebrities to indicate a brand new, extra genuine, aspect of themselves.

No Style Like Residence with Antoni Porowski will premiere with two episodes — at 9 p.m. Japanese and 10 p.m. Japanese — on February 23 on Nationwide Geographic.