Cooking Secrets with Luna Star

Podcast Vibe

Cooking Secrets with Luna Star  Luna Star, Luna Star Interview, Luna Star Podcast  #Luna Star

Transcript

00:00So tell me how the competition works.

00:02So the competition is like they have like eight different chefs and they put you one against each other.

00:07And it's like a football.

00:08You get selected.

00:10Whoever wins go against each other.

00:12And it's just a process of a couple of days.

00:15Do they like tell you what you have to make or they get you like certain ingredients?

00:18No, we don't even know who we go against and we don't know what we're cooking.

00:22And I think that's the most scary thing.

00:24You just show up.

00:25It's like a fire kitchen or health kitchens.

00:28Okay.

00:28I think it's the same producers that produce that show.

00:30So it's a very high TV show.

00:32It's very like when I saw the cinematography, like you can tell it's incredibly.

00:37Oh, they did so good.

00:38They have such a huge talent behind the cameras and the set is amazing.

00:44And so, yeah, it was it was so impressive.

00:46Like, even when I remember my first episode, I was like, I want this kitchen for me.

00:51It was good.

00:52It was an impressive thing.

00:53And I was so happy to be a part of it.

00:55And, you know, so you get to set and they say, OK, you need to make this because I don't

01:00honestly watch reality cooking shows and I know they are all a little different.

01:04Like some of them give you certain ingredients.

01:06You have to like make something up and other ones give you a main ingredient.

01:09So they do like basically it's like a regular TV show.

01:12You go get in the seat.

01:14You talk about it before and then you go to the kitchen and they just give you a basket.

01:18And it's a surprise.

01:19They tell you what the plate is supposed to be like.

01:22You can switch it up with the main ingredients.

01:24But the winning part is to have every ingredient I give you to be used in the plate.

01:29OK.

01:29And I think that's why many episodes like I couldn't have lost.

01:32But because I use all the ingredients, I want that one.

01:35So if you don't put all the ingredients in, are you automatically disqualified or you just

01:39dock points?

01:40No, I just kind of dock points.

01:42Meaning like if it's like a tie and you have one extra ingredient that you're supposed to

01:45and the other one didn't, then you win.

01:47Gotcha.

01:48Like, for example, when I went against Sherry Devine, like our plates were both good, but

01:52she forgot a cream inside her French stove.

01:55Sherry forgot the cream?

01:56I know.

01:57That doesn't sound like her.

01:59But it was just like both of us messed up and we had to do everything for scratch again.

02:03And the only thing that I know how to make is really good cream.

02:05So my cream was delicious.

02:07And that's what made me want that episode.

02:09If not, it would have been super tight in that one.

02:10Because I played it was so pretty.

02:12What do you think was the best dish you made?

02:14I think it was the last one, the one that just came out with Riley.

02:16It was her Brancino.

02:18I think from all my plays, I think that was my A-1.

02:21Okay, so you won OFTV and then you went up against Riley, who was the winner from last

02:27year.

02:27Yeah, because every year you go against the winner of the other year.

02:31Okay.

02:32So I went against Riley that she won last year and I won that one.

02:35So you went like $20,000 to win the show and you get extra $10,000 if we won the super

02:40finals.

02:40Oh, wow.

02:41So that was a little extra.

02:42I was like, oh my goodness, what is going on?

02:44And I watched every single episode and I saw Riley cook and I was scared.

02:49I was so scared because she cooks really good, but I brought my flavor in it, so she

02:53couldn't beat that.

02:55I'm sorry, Riley.

02:55I love you.

02:56So Brancino, that's something that I usually avoid ordering because it's like, it's the

03:01whole fish.

03:02Yeah.

03:02And it's generally like, it's a lot of work to eat.

03:05Well, I never cooked that in my life.

03:07Anything that I cook in this show, I never cooked it.

03:09Okay.

03:09But I'm really good at like inventing.

03:11Okay.

03:11So I just cooked it like I would cook just a regular fillet fish.

03:15I just put the same ingredients and it'll make the whole thing.

03:17And it looks really nice.

03:19How long, when did you start cooking?

03:20Like, when did you learn how to cook?

03:21I think like all my life, like I'm from Cuba and my family, I never going to forget this.

03:28We used to get a beach house in the summer and then all the family would go and stay for

03:32a couple of weeks in the beach and my parents and my, all the people would get drunk since

03:38like 10 o'clock in the morning.

03:40So like, you know, they would cook on the main scene, like big pots for everybody.

03:44But it got to the point that it would tell us like, if you guys are hungry, you need

03:48to figure out how to cook when you're very young and you're like in the kitchen, you're

03:51like, what am I going to do?

03:52So like, kind of you, you, you see how they cook and then you just start cooking yourself

03:56because it was like, they're drunk.

03:58We want to eat.

03:58So it's our cooking.

04:00And I think I learned it like that.

04:02And my grandma, they all cook so good.

04:04So I think just washing them and being poor and basically like having three ingredients

04:08in the fridge and figure out how to make that at dinner.

04:11Yeah.

04:11And I think that's why I was always been good at it.

04:13Not to know the plate, just figure it out how to make something that is a potato, make

04:18that potato taste the best.

04:19What do you think is like the one thing that people don't know about cooking or like, is

04:25there like a secret trick that a lot of people aren't clued into?

04:28I think for me, it's like people follow too much recipes and we all come from different

04:32backgrounds.

04:33So we all have different spices that we like.

04:35I think diversity of spices is what makes a really good cooking.

04:39Like, for example, like, I don't know how to mix this spice with this spice.

04:42Well, what I do and I did in this show, you can see it clearly crazy.

04:45I put everything in my mouth because I don't know the name of the spices.

04:48So I will cook like a basic thing and then I will get a spoon and I'll try a little

04:52spice and I try and I'm like, this doesn't go well.

04:54And then I get another spoon and I put a different spice and I would be adding and adding until

04:58I could combine a good flavor.

04:59Okay.

05:00So that's kind of like the best thing and mostly like the top chef that I ever like

05:04call Michelin star.

05:05That's what they will do.

05:06They just experiment with different flavors.

05:08Right, right.

05:09So what do you think is like your best dish just overall, like outside of the TV show?

05:14Just what's like the Luna star specialty?

05:16Before all of this, before I was vegan, before I'm not vegan anymore fully, but it was seafood

05:22pasta.

05:23Okay.

05:23Because same thing, like, you know, when you go and get a seafood pasta at any restaurant,

05:28they just cook all the seafood together and they throw it in the pasta.

05:31What I used to do, I would cook every seafood separate and then I'll cook the pasta and

05:35then I bring all those flavors together.

05:36So when you eat it, the squid doesn't taste the same as the fish or the shrimp.

05:41Everything good thing in the plate tastes different.

05:43So when you just get one bite, you're like so many flavors and your mother, I always think

05:48about Ratatouille, the movie, like he gets a little piece of cheese in the thing and

05:51like, the colors comes out.

05:54So I'm always being into the flavors and mix it a lot together.

05:57So that used to be my favorite dish to cook.

05:59Yeah.

06:00And that's what I make many guys fall in love with me.

06:02I feel like it's more than just your seafood pasta.

06:04I know, I know.

06:05But it doesn't hurt.

06:06It doesn't hurt.

06:07My mom always told me if you can make a guy loves you cooking, they're probably because

06:11I love you.

06:12Yeah.

06:13Yeah.

06:13If you go crazy on them, at least she cooks good.

06:16Yeah.

06:16I got to set my game up.

06:17My husband is the cook in the family and not me.

06:20So that's why you marry him.

06:21Yes.

06:22That, that among many other reasons.

06:24But yes, the cooking definitely helps.

06:26It helps.

06:26You go home and the food is ready over here.

06:28It's amazing.

06:28No, it's great.

06:29I mean, he's making dinner tonight.

06:30So you obviously, you mentioned your family.

06:33So you grew up in Cuba.

06:34You moved to Miami when you were 15.

06:37What was your upbringing in Havana like?

06:39You know, I was always in sport.

06:41So I'm very grateful for all the sacrifice that my parents did for me to be in a better

06:46school.

06:46Because if you go to a regular school, it's like, it's not bad because the education is

06:50good, but it's very poor.

06:51So if you want to have a higher education, like a better school, better places, like I

06:56live in my school, you want to be in sports because the government helps a lot.

07:01The people are in the sport.

07:01So they sacrificed so much for me to be into sport and have the best equipment and stuff.

07:06I used to be a professional swimmer, so I used to live in the school and I have really

07:12good upcoming when it comes to educations and like lifestyle, thanks to that.

07:18But I always told my mom and I always told everybody I wasn't born to live in Cuba because

07:22not many people have the possibility to know what is outside Cuba and that's why they get

07:26so stuck in the country.

07:28But I always have the vision and my parents and my family always like live outside the

07:33Cuba.

07:33So I was like, this country is not for me.

07:35I can do so much better than this.

07:37There was so much life out there than that little island.

07:41Yeah.

07:41So I was just, I couldn't wait to get out.

07:43Yeah.

07:44It was, it was like one of those things that I appreciate, but I don't like.

07:48Yeah.

07:48Do you ever go back?

07:49I went back a few times.

07:50I went back after I won the show.

07:52I donated a lot of money.

07:53I wanted to donate it to the, to the people because people are very poor.

07:56But Cuba is like, you have the government and the people.

07:59You don't have a middle thing.

08:00You don't have a place that you can just go and donate and help people.

08:02Yeah.

08:03My family is in the medical and my uncle would tell me like, they will use one pair of gloves

08:08for the whole day in the hospital.

08:10Wow.

08:10Like, there's no like, you change it and put it up.

08:12No, it was one rip off.

08:13Like, so I wanted to help them and I couldn't because there's no one that you can help to.

08:18So all you can do is buy stuff and bring them.

08:20So what I did, I ended up finding a small personal company to help animals.

08:25There's not a company.

08:26It's like people, they just make their house a sanctuary for animals.

08:30And I just like bought a bunch of bags of food.

08:33And I still do it, even though I already wasted money in it.

08:35But I helped them and bring them cat food, dog food for the baby dogs and stuff like that

08:40that they don't have over there.

08:41And that's what I did.

08:43That's the only reason I went back to Cuba because I never wanted to go back.

08:47And I have my family and stuff.

08:48And every time that I go there, I feel so sad and so depressed.

08:51Yeah.

08:51It's just like, it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can never help everybody.

08:55And it's just, I literally come depressed everything that I come from Cuba.

08:59I'm sorry.

09:00Like I did the family.

09:02I helped them as much as I came.

09:04And then I went once as a tourist and I loved it in 2019.

09:07And I was like, oh, I can come back here without having to feel guilty.

09:09Just go to the beaches.

09:10And then the pandemic hits and I just kill it.

09:14Whatever left they had in the country that was beautiful, it was done.

09:17Oh, really?

09:17No, not even with money, you can enjoy it over there.

09:19Yeah.

09:19I think so.

09:20I think it's still a beautiful country, but for me, it's now.

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended