Queer Eye's Antoni Porowski finds there's No Taste Like Home

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Antoni Porowski

The food maven takes celebrity guests to their culinary roots on his new Nat Geo series.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.

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Queer Eye food and wine expert Antoni Porowski is delving deep into the history of cuisine with his new Nat Geo series.

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Porowski, our sister publication Out’s cover star, takes celebrity guests James Marsden, Awkwafina, Florence Pugh, Justin Theroux, Henry Golding, and Issa Rae back to the culinary roots of their ancestors as host of No Taste Like Home.

“They actually visit where their forebears lived as well — a childhood dish of Marsden’s leads from a Texas ranch to a German castle and back to an American biergarten, for example — with Porowski serving as a guide through cuisine, genealogy, human migration, space, and time,” Out reports. And Rae learns that she’s descended from Senegalese royalty.

“I’ve always loved travel,” Porowski said in his Out interview. “Queer Eye … afforded me the life beyond my wildest dreams, and I get to connect with other people and just tell human stories using food as a vehicle.”

“I kind of wanted to do that in a bit more of a global way because … to quote my therapist, diversity exposure is probably one of the most important things that we can all benefit from,” he added.

“If you really get to know someone personally … I guarantee it’s gonna make you so much harder to pass any preconceived notions or judgments or have any negative feelings or any type of negative stereotypes that may come about,” he explained. “And that’s why I think that the specificity of this kind of storytelling is so important.”