Chef John Mike, who was the guest of honor in the kitchen MasterChef Sunday Night is currently working on a new album and will headline a new cooking show this winter.
He already has two EPs to his credit, I'm here now (2020) and others. To the core (2024), conductor Jean-Michel Leblond would one day like to live his music entirely, but also wants to take the time to study and gain experience before taking the plunge.
“If I didn’t have a permanent profession, for example, a chef, I would definitely plunge into the world of music. At the moment it’s really a passion, a wonderful lateral line“, he told the QMI agency during an interview.
“I put myself out there and get experience, playing bars, restaurants, to gain experience. I record albums when I have time, when I feel like the product is complete, final,” he added.
“I'm lucky to have a few passions. Having a fairly hectic career in a couple of different market segments is forcing me to slow down as well. I don't want to get burned,” he said, adding that his priority at the moment is growing his sandwich shop Renzo, which he opened with his partners in Mile End last June.
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Located on the corner of Fairmount and St. Laurent streets, the small neighborhood restaurant could eventually expand elsewhere in the city.
“The idea is to try to make it as standardized and standardized as possible,” the chef stressed.
The latter will become a co-organizer of a new culinary competition. Main teapots with Arnaud Soli, next winter on Nuovo.
The cast, which was unveiled on Thursday, includes Catherine Levac, Jo Cormier, Genevieve Schmidt, Mélanie Maynard, Pascal Renault-Hébert, Reale Belan and Anne-Elisabeth Bosset.
“It's like a parody of MasterChefwhere we take comedians, actors, famous personalities who don’t know how to cook at all. And with the cooking classes that I give them, they have 40, 50, 60 minutes to recreate exactly what I showed them,” the chef explained, noting that he had a lot of fun watching some of the disasters in the kitchen.
“They're really not very good. So it's a very colorful show,” he continued with a laugh, saying he sees the project as a “good springboard” that takes him out of his comfort zone.
Looking back on my time in MasterChef
The heartbreaking destruction of Lydiana shocked the brigade MasterChefSunday night, which now forms the top eight in this third season.
After having a tough week, Levisoise failed to impress the judges with her soft-shell crab tacos from celebrity auctions. MasterChef. Unfortunately, his dish contained several errors.
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Chef John Mike, in turn, was pleasantly surprised by the overall level of the candidates.
“They still have a lot of equipment. To be honest, I didn’t think that Mister and M.to me Anyone could have such knowledge in cooking. I was stunned,” he said.
“Given that I was only a judge for one day, it put me in a much easier position in the sense that I could actually tell them what I thought,” he added.
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After Lidiana is eliminated, the only thing left in the kitchen is MasterChef Quebec as Valerie, Charlotte, Corinne, Jean-Sebastian, Alexandre, Frédéric, Anne-Catherine and Samuel.
