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Throughout the episode, both Gruel and Kennedy employ dog whistles of varying overtness: Gruel assures viewers that he\u2019ll be using \u201ca couple chef tricks, but nothing overly intellectual\u201d (none of that namby-pamby liberal glasses-polishing here) to pack in flavor, while Kennedy knocked old nutritional guidelines, claiming that \u201cthe government had been lying to us and telling us that protein caused heart attacks. There was no science that supported that.\u201d Source, please?<\/p>\n
The siren song of MAHA\u2019s love affair with protein-maxxing<\/a> is also well-represented in this first episode, with noted animal-lover<\/a> Kennedy grimly intoning, \u201cone of the things we found when we started looking at the real science was that when you don\u2019t eat protein, you eat something else<\/a>, and it was ultra-processed foods.\u201d<\/p>\n As for Gruel, he doesn\u2019t seem too worried about viewers cooking well.<\/em> \u201cNow don\u2019t worry if you overcook this,\u201d he says of his dish. He also focuses on the cost of ingredients without noting the trade-offs that might come with choices that will lower the grocery bill, such as nutritional differences between a fish fillet and canned fish, or the difference between different types of eggs. He recommends using panko as a binder in the cakes, assuring the audience that it\u2019s \u201creally just a lightened breadcrumb.\u201d Is it any wonder that multiple commenters on the video suggested using pork rinds, which are high in fat and sodium and not a good source of vitamins<\/a>, in the place of panko?<\/p>\n The Department of Health and Human Services had not responded to Vanity Fair<\/em>\u2019s request for comment at publication time, and has not shared plans for the frequency of new episodes.<\/p>\n Gruel, throughout the episode, stands alongside recovering-addict Kennedy and claims to be addicted to many things: Seafood (positive), salad dressing (negative), condiments (negative), and seed oils (negative). Another stab at humor falls similarly awkwardly: Gruel mentions involving his four children in food prep, claiming that if they help cook the food, they\u2019re more likely to eat it, common enough advice in parenting articles about picky eating, but then adds, \u201cwe\u2019ve got restaurants and labor cost is high, so I keep having more kids so we have free labor.\u201d<\/p>\n Kennedy, who positioned his food-pyramid overhaul as finding top nutritionists and then \u201clock[ing] them into a room for 11 months,\u201d replied: \u201cGood plan.\u201d And, hey, the pronatalism<\/a> comes free of charge.<\/p>\n Another upside from Gruel: \u201cI\u2019ve also learned in California, kids can\u2019t sue you, so that\u2019s helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n Lifestyle guru, indeed. Whatever Kennedy\u2019s future as a celebrity chef holds, he\u2019ll be able to choke it down, he assured USA Today<\/em>, saying, \u201cI will literally eat anything because I don\u2019t have a gag reflex.\u201d<\/p>\n Bon app\u00e9tit, America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n