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Watch Chris Cosentino’s Truly Excellent Talk on the Perils of the Celebrity-Chef Lifestyle

Last month, Incanto’s Chris Cosentino leveled with the crowd at the MAD4 symposium about the hazards of celebrity-TV stardom, and that very frank advice, “Be Careful What You Wish For,” has finally been posted online. He warns the younger generation of chefs that, yes, an Iron Chef appearance led to a speedy ascent (“Everybody wants to talk to you — ‘Oh, you’re really funny,’ ‘You say a lot of good things,’ ‘You’ve got really good sound bites.’ I f–king hate that word”), but that then beget contractual obligations and insane eating challenges. He says eventually it broke him down. His stomach in particular: “They said it looked like I swallowed a wolverine that tried to scratch itself out. Trust me, it’s not f–king funny, because I spent days on the shitter.”

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Watch Chris Cosentino’s Truly Excellent Talk on the Perils of the