“They’re a little bit demeaning or do things that aren’t great. “I didn’t watch a lot of cooking shows prior, and here’s why: I don’t love cooking shows except for the ones with really good chefs or ‘Top Chef’ because a lot of cooking shows are kinda crazy,” Brewer says. And who gets asked to go on a cooking show? Holy mackerel!”īrewer, whose day job is in operations for a retirement plan company, was recruited for season two just before season one aired last summer, so she could watch the show’s first season to know what she was saying yes to. Now that they’re 21 and 24, she says, “I’ve got time for me. Khela Brewer of Overland Park competes in the new season of “Great American Recipe,” debuting Monday.īrewer says for years when her two sons were growing up, she didn’t really do things for herself. I just didn’t think that I would be TV material necessarily.” (Brewer says producers asked her to refrain from calling herself a “chubby bunny” on camera.) “As they’re cooking and as they’ve received different input and tricks and comments from us judging, you’ll see them adapt as they go forward.”īrewer was surprised she got picked for the show, which filmed its second season in a modern, swanky barn in Virginia last September. “We always say in the kitchen that a recipe is a blueprint,” he says. “She was wild, popping off at the mouth, like the crazy mom friend.”Īs for her lack of concrete recipes, Elliot offers some reassurance. “She was great,” says “Great American Recipe” judge Graham Elliot. Brewer uses the hashtag #HomeCook on her posts, which is how the casting company for “Great American Recipe” found Brewer. She routinely posts photos of her culinary creations to Instagram, mostly as a catalog so if a friend asks for a dish she can look back at what she made and come up with how to make it again or jot down preparation instructions. The lack of recipe experience also played into how Brewer, 52, ended up on “Great American Recipe” (8 p.m. I’m dyslexic and kind of all over the place.” “The hard part for me (about being on the show) was writing all this stuff down. “It is a foreign concept to me because my grandma and my mom never used a recipe unless they were baking, but they didn’t do much baking,” Brewer says. For Overland Park’s Khela Brewer, the biggest challenge of appearing on season two of PBS’ cooking competition series “Great American Recipe” can be found in the show’s title.īrewer doesn’t use recipes when she cooks, but “Great American Recipe” is based on home cooks working off their family recipes.
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