“Good day, Vogue. I’m Ayo Edebiri, and tonight—or in the present day, no matter time it’s if you’re watching—I’m gonna be cooking you dinner.” 

So begins a pleasant new episode of Now Serving with, sure, the Emmy-, SAG-, and Golden Globe-winning star of The Bear and Bottoms. “I’m typically sporting Valentino attire after I’m cooking issues casually in my dwelling,” Edebiri jokes, drifting across the kitchen set in an off-the-shoulder, feather-trimmed black costume that considerably restricts the motion of her arms, however she loves nonetheless. “Sydney’s going to appear like this for Season 3 of The Bear.”

On Edebiri’s menu is a really fancy-sounding however in the end fairly simple miso butter pasta with furikake breadcrumbs—a favourite dish of hers when she has folks over, although it normally isn’t greater than 4 or 5 folks, as a result of cooking in entrance of an viewers stresses her out. Nicely, you’d hardly understand it: After operating by way of the substances (pasta, olive oi—wait, no, that’s really rice vinegar, parmesan, butter, lemon zest), Edebiri will get cooking. 

Between chopping chilis (with a cleaver named Donna) and ready for the butter to brown, the actor and author recollects the prep she did for The Bear—studying knife expertise and getting over her concern of warmth had been most of it—and internet hosting Saturday Night time Stay a couple of weeks in the past, after which she watched her mother social gathering till daybreak. (Her dad, in the meantime, “was, like, absolutely falling asleep, eyes open on the membership. It was really fairly sick.”) 

Ready for the pasta water to boil offers Edebiri time to combine somewhat cocktail—specifically, an Umeshu Highball, as a result of she doesn’t actually like ingesting alcohol, however when she does, she prefers it to “style like juice.” The remainder of the video is a joyful flurry of falling gel lights, vaguely Australian-accented English, and our star realizing, for the primary time in her 28 years, simply how a lot she has in widespread with Emeril Lagasse. Get into all of it above.  

Director: Nina Ljeti
Director Of Pictures: Riccardo Mejia
Editor: Katie Wolford
Producer: Gigi Chavarria
Affiliate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Affiliate Producer, On Set: Sydney Malone
Assistant Digital camera: Jon Corum
Gaffer: Dmitry Labzin
Audio: Paul Cornett
Manufacturing Assistant: Brock Spitaels
Make-up Artist: Dana Delaney
Hair Stylist: Miles Jeffries
Wardrobe Stylist: Danielle Goldberg
Wardrobe Assistant: Gemma Valdez
Manufacturing Coordinator: Ava Kashar
Manufacturing Supervisor: Natasha Soto-Albors
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Senior Director, Manufacturing Administration: Jessica Schier
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
Put up Manufacturing Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Put up Manufacturing Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Leisure Director: Sergio Kletnoy
Director, Content material Manufacturing: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Digital Video English: Thespena Guatieri
Filmed at Historic Hudson Studios