The food and wine expert on Netflix’s “Queer Eye” took T’s challenge to make something in under an hour, and paid tribute to the late Anthony Bourdain.
The “Queer Eye” star pays homage to a fellow street-food aficionado – with delicious results.Published OnCreditCreditImage by United Labor
Each participant in our video series “Make T Something” — in which familiar faces make something in under an hour using a few select items — is required to bring one mystery ingredient to the shoot. Antoni Porowski, the food and wine expert on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” showed up with the most delicious one yet: a plate of fried sardines. He’d picked them up from Taverna Kyclades in New York’s East Village neighborhood, a favorite of Porowski’s, but this classic Greek street food is easy enough to make at home. The restaurant’s owner and head chef Ardian Skenderi recommends using fresh sardines (he chooses the ones from Portugal at the Hunts Point market in the Bronx). They should be lightly dusted with flour, sea salt and a little garlic powder, then fried and finished with a squeeze of lemon.
For this challenge, Porowski was inspired by another champion of global street fare — the late chef and food writer Anthony Bourdain. “What’s most interesting to me is why he had such a profound impact on so many of us,” Porowski says. “Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends. It is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work. Food can offer a moment of pure emotional pleasure in an otherwise hard and difficult world.” Watch Porowski’s homage to Bourdain in our latest episode.
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