{"id":209918,"date":"2024-03-14T07:15:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T11:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=209918"},"modified":"2024-02-20T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T15:40:05","slug":"uconn-magazine-its-not-about-the-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/03\/uconn-magazine-its-not-about-the-food\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: &#8220;It&#8217;s Not About the Food&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best meals TV chef\u00a0Joel Gamoran \u201907 (CLAS)\u00a0recalls eating was at UConn \u2014 sort of. He was studying abroad in Italy and biked to a trattoria with a friend. \u201cThey plucked the fish out of the ocean and just grilled it right there, squeezed lemon on it, and it was the best thing I ever had. Now was it the fish? Was it the lemon? No, it was the bike, it was the 20-year-old me, it was the Italy, that seasoned that fish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gamoran\u2019s latest cooking show, PBS\u2019s \u201cHomemade Live,\u201d sees the chef and friends recreating such food memories. Gamoran took up cooking at age 14 to battle anxiety and has been \u201cspreading the gospel\u201d ever since. \u201cCooking\u2019s like giving someone a hug.\u201d He\u2019s a serial TV guest as well as host, who seeks to counter the cooking intimidation factor by maximizing the fun. \u201cI\u2019m not getting too sciencey, I\u2019m not getting too foody \u2014 it\u2019s not about the food, it\u2019s about empowering people. And having fun. Because ultimately that\u2019s what cooking\u2019s all about \u2014 the joy of living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2024\/02\/20\/its-not-about-the-food\/?utm_campaign=magazine_spring_2024&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=uconn_today_readmore\">Read on for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chef Joel Gamoran \u201907 counts down his top 10 TV cooking appearances \u2014 from preparing ice cream sandwiches for Elmo to making fried chicken for Katie Couric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":209922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,2226,2235,102,2227],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2027],"class_list":["post-209918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-clas","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","category-uconn-edu-homepage"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 17:05:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211091,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209918\/revisions\/211091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/209922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209918"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=209918"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=209918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}