Just ahead of Season 21 of 'Top Chef,' culinary trailblazer Gail Simmons chats with Scary Mommy about the intersection of food and parenting.
Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Courtesy of Gail SimmonsIn "real life" , Simmons comes off much the same. She's direct but thoughtful, always measured but never guarded. She's the type of person I'd imagine would be in my mom circle if we existed in the same orbit.leaving the Emmy-winning series to the mom-of-two's favorite tips for picky eaters and more.
GS: You'll see a lot of changes this season to how people are used to seeing the game played. Specifically, we always used to give out immunity in quick fires so that you'd have immunity going into the elimination challenge every episode … we're no longer doing that. You only now get immunity in the elimination challenges for the following episode.
GS: It is conflicting. I always say that the travel component of our show — because we never shoot in the same place, and we're almost never shooting in the city where I live — is the best and the hardest part of the job in equal measure. We get to live, not just stay for a few days, but hunker down for six or eight weeks, in different cities all over the country or all over the world.
I think that's an expectation that moms put a lot of pressure on themselves about. Everyone wants their kid to eat nutritionally, to eat well, to eat a diverse diet, to get all their vegetables. “At the end of the day, kids don't care what I do for my job. I'm their mom, and they don't want to eat what I want to force them to eat.”
I find I have much more success with them trying new foods — or eating things that you want them to eat but they've been resistant to — if you just put it on the table and then pay no attention to it. Normalize those foods in your house. The more they see you eating it, the more they see that it's in the fridge or on the table, but you're not focusing on it and obsessing over it; the more I see my children, then just take it in their own time and on their own terms.
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