?uestlove on The Chew (VIDEO)

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by Mariella Mosthof

MasterChef Season 4 kicked off last night with a two-hour premiere, and, as we look forward to every summer, the kooks came out of the woodwork for the open audition rounds. Of course, those are way more entertaining than the tear-filled, moving stories of overcoming adversity or whatever, so we conveniently compiled all the Crazies Montages in one convenient space for your perusal. You're welcome.

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Lady Chef Stampede: Here's Why Amy Scherber Is The One Baker Ever To Be Profiled In This Column

by Tina Nguyen

This week, on the Lady Chef Stampede, we get baked with Amy Scherber, the woman behind Amy’s Bread. Normally I am deeply suspicious of bakers, regarding them as a mutant offshoot of pastry cooks (if you want to know about pastry cooks, I suggest trying reading some H.P. Lovecraft, who wrote about them in great detail).

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Amy Bouzgalo Served Time In Federal Prison For Social Security Fraud

by Tina Nguyen

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The Braiser Is Hiring Summer Interns!

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WATCH: ?uestlove And Mario Batali Smoke Out The Chew Studio

by Mariella Mosthof 4:34 pm, September 12th

The Roots drummer and Jimmy Fallon sidekick ?uestlove stopped by The Chew today to show off a kimchi short rib sandwich with Mario Batali while hand-delivering his Love’s Drumsticks to the hosts. You may remember ?uest from such fried chicken challenges as The Great David Chang vs ?uestlove Fried Chicken Battle of 2012. He’s now kicking off his own catering company called Quest Loves Food.

He chatted with The Chew about the new venture and how the late-night musician lifestyle got him interested in food in the first place. Mario clearly demonstrated a lack of faith in his guest, asking him both if he knew how to use a microplane and a mandolin. Uh, not rocket science, Batali. We know you’re the smarty-pants and all.

Michael Symon benevolently offered to teach ?uestlove how to operate the microplane, if he promised to show Michael how to use the pick tucked into his ‘fro.

“I brought that for Carla,” he replied. Snap.

Check out the clip of him cooking (and subsequently smoking out the studio to the point where Michael had to evacuate his seat) below.

When they came back from break, The Chew crew revealed a specially crafted drum set made out of pots and pans (with wooden spoon sticks, of course) just for ?uest to play. He obliged.