Celebrity Kitchen

Celebrity Kitchen: just for fun.

Not everything a celebrity eats needs a Science Score. This is the fun stuff: real, sourced, and gloriously beside the point. No grades here, just good stories from famous kitchens.

Celebrity Kitchen

Matthew McConaughey

The 13-ingredient Sunday tuna salad

He called himself a tuna fish salad master and makes an over-the-top version every Sunday night to clean out the fridge. The thirteen components: olive-oil yellowfin tuna, lemon juice, vinegar, red onion, gherkins, apple, agave, corn, frozen green peas, mayo, wasabi, Italian dressing, and crispy jalapeno chips, chilled overnight.

Thirteen ingredients, one fridge cleanout, and frozen peas right in the middle of it. Alright, alright, alright.

TODAY: inside Matthew McConaughey's viral tuna salad
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Keith Richards

The shepherd's pie nobody may touch first

In his memoir Life, the Rolling Stones guitarist laid down his most famous backstage rule: nobody is allowed to break the crust of his shepherd's pie before he has had the first scoop. Legend has it a 1989 show was nearly delayed because someone broke into the pie early.

Rock's most non-negotiable rider isn't about the dressing room. It's a casserole, and you go through Keith first.

Louder: don't bust Keith Richards' shepherd's pie crust
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Snoop Dogg

Mayonnaise in the mashed potatoes

In his cookbook From Crook to Cook, Snoop reveals his secret mashed-potato ingredient is mayonnaise, which he says makes them taste whipped and fluffy. The same book gives the world his brown-sugar-and-cayenne Billion Dollar Bacon.

He put mayo in the mashed potatoes and named his bacon after a billion dollars. Drop it like it's hot, then plate it.

Mashed: the secret ingredient Snoop adds to his mashed potatoes
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Stanley Tucci

The lockdown Negroni that broke the internet

In an April 2020 Instagram video, Tucci built a Negroni with a double shot of gin, a shot of sweet vermouth, and a shot of Campari, served in a coupe, and gently warned against one vermouth brand by name. The clip became quarantine comfort-viewing for millions.

One actor, one coupe glass, three ingredients, and an entire internet suddenly very thirsty.

Refinery29: Stanley Tucci's viral Negroni
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Dolly Parton

Never met a spud she didn't like

Dolly has called herself a potato person through and through: mashed, french-fried, or baked, she says she never met a spud she didn't like. Her favorite condiment, for the record, is butter, with salt and pepper.

Working nine to five, but always making time for a potato. The philosophy: butter, salt, pepper, zero apologies.

Food Republic: Dolly Parton's love of potatoes

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