Food Network star and food journalist/critic Troy Johnson stops by to talk about making the switch from writing about music to food, majoring in poetry, growing up with a gay parent, regrets, marriage, divorce, parenthood, San Diego, Fox Rox, Guy’s Grocery Games, Crave, Adderall, aggressive heterosexuality, cooking and so much more. We also did a round of How Dare You.
On social media he says funny and unfunny things that have been featured on CNN, Washington Post, Playboy, and Funny or Die. He lives in O.B. with his wife Claire (CEO of San Diego Mag).
Food Network star and food journalist/critic Troy Johnson stops by to talk about making the switch from writing about music to food, majoring in poetry, growing up with a gay parent, regrets, marriage, divorce, parenthood, San Diego, Fox Rox, Guy’s Grocery Games, Crave, Adderall, aggressive heterosexuality, cooking and so much more. We also did a round of How Dare You.
TJ: I would probably buy a premade curry, coconut milk, chicken and two veggies — whether they be bamboo and mushrooms [or two other vegetables]. Yeah, because I love making curries. I would rather make it in a mortar and pestle, but if Ive got to use the jarred curry sauce, its not that bad; its pretty good. Usually I make a Penang curry, although I love a green curry too.
Favorite holiday: I like Christmas. The reason why I like Christmas is because everyone doesnt expect you to cook quite as much as Thanksgiving, so you know the ambitions are a bit tempered and the food is usually better.
Get to know this Triple G judge, and tune in to watch Troy on Guys Grocery Games on Sundays at 8|7c.
Troy Johnson: Never trust myself in a supermarket. Way too many options and way too little attention — actually, a deficit of attention. I walk into a supermarket and I walk out three and a half hours [later] with, like, a Super Bowl party worth of food, so I prefer a small, contained area to keep myself from myself.
TJ: Coffee! Usually, every single time I go, I have about nine bushels of kale, because kale is kind of the way I balance out my life — after eating at so many restaurants during the week (they are short on kale, usually, and heavy on pork belly). So at lunchtime and anytime that Im making my own meal throughout the week, its usually heavy on vegetables, a bunch of leaves. Ill even juice a lot. So kale, and/or shallot. Ill get shallot every single time too. I love shallot. Its just that sexy, you know, its like the onions best version of what it could become if it was a better thing.
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