I don’t know how I came across this website, or really how long its been around to be honest, but Cooking With Rockstars is great. It’s one of the more original music-related features I have seen in awhile.
The premise is pretty durn simple… talk to musicians or indie bands about what they like to eat or cook. Why go through the motions, asking the same tired questions to artists who’ve long grown bored waxing on about their influences or defending stylistic changes, when you can ask Jenny Lewis about her near-vegan dietary restrictions and what cities you can get great ‘fake meat?’ Or Jack Black about his famous ‘Dorito Burrito.’
Despite the lacking video quality — seemingly shot handheld with a cellphone or shitty digital camcorder (do we still call them camcorders? I’m out of touch) — it scores some points in having a great line up of interviews with the likes of Ben Gibbard, John Vanderslice, and Sam Beam of Iron & Wine (among quite a few more).
These days, since I’ve been co-producing a food show for NPR (Kitchen Window), I am becoming more drawn to food, food journalism and how and what people like to eat… So combining that with my love and obsession with music, this is a great little concept… I hope they keep it up.
Check out a past interview with Jack Black…
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