Magician Penn Jillette teased listeners across several podcast episodes of his Penn’s Sunday School. He told listeners he was learning to cook for television in connection with a cooking competition show but that was about it. He would not divulge the network, the type of competition or even whether there was big money at stake.
Penn did share, however, that cooking is to cooking on television as music is to military music.
At home, you may carefully open packages, measure quantities and cook appropriate quantities for the number of intended guests. On TV, boxes are sliced open, careful measuring is for the birds and you always cook more than enough so that you can choose the best version of the dish and toss the rest.
The press embargo has apparently been lifted and Penn was able to speak with The Las Vegas Sun columnist Robin Leach.
Penn is competing on behalf of his favorite charity Opportunity Village on the third season of the celebrity competition “Rachael vs. Guy.” He is on Team Rachel Ray with Jake Pavelka, comedy actress Judy Gold and Florence Henderson.
Penn would not disclose whether he was successful.
“You have to watch to see how far I go,” Penn told Robin Leach. “I feel pretty good, but it is top secret. One of the things I did to prepare for the show is I went around to different chefs in Las Vegas and was taught a lot about how to cook on television.
“I like the Opportunity Village project because the idea is so important. I’m hoping that it will grow even more and in other areas of the country. People who saw Opportunity Village when I competed on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ have thought about doing it in other cities.
“That was really my reason for doing Donald Trump’s show and now on Rachael Ray’s team. Besides raising money for Opportunity Village, we get to show there are other ideas for how to assist people with disabilities.
Read more about Penn’s on-going projects in Robin Leach’s full article in The Las Vegas Sun here.
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