Rea: Binging with Babish was sparked by Parks and Recreation burger episode
Andrew Rea · HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · Aug 18, 2022 · at 13:37
Andrew Rea, creator of the Babish Culinary Universe, explains to Guy Raz how he came up with the concept for his cooking channel.
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“As I was fiddling with that, I was watching Parks and Rec for, you know, probably the fifth or sixth time, and watched a scene that I had seen a dozen times, because it's from a great episode where there was a burger cook-off, and they were discussing some pretty exotic ingredients that I was like, I wonder what that would actually taste like, papaya chutney, black truffle aioli, Taleggio cheese crisp. How would that work? Would that work together? And turns out it's okay. But that's really where the idea came from.”
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