Ashley Benson and Brandon Davis are enjoying a low-key night out.
20.12.2023 - 20:25 / variety.com
Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Annie Starke doesn’t want to talk about last Christmas. The host of the freshly minted Magnolia Network show, “The Mountain Kitchen,” admits her family dinner was a disaster. “I probably had too many drinks in the morning,” Starke tells me, laughing.
“I don’t know what happened, but I messed up. I burned the absolute hell out of the ham and it was terrible. I screamed so loud that even my deaf aunt heard me.
She can’t hear the giant freight train that goes by her house but she heard me scream. But we were like, ‘Let’s just wolf this down and move on with it.’” “The Mountain Kitchen” is shot in Bozeman, Montana, on Starke’s mom Glenn Close’s ranch. “When I was a little kid, I was always fascinated by cooking and food culture.
I was a weird kid,” says Starke, an actor who appeared on Ryan Murphy’s “Ratched.” “If you’ve been to my house you know I’m kind of like this old grandma – I have to feed you.” When you’re launching a show like “The Mountain Kitchen,” do you get in touch with people like Martha Stewart and Rachel Ray and ask them for advice? No. I mean, I would love to have them on speed dial. But I’m working with Pacific Productions and they’ve done Ina Garten stuff for like 25 years.
They’ve also done Nigella Lawson and “The Pioneer Woman.” I walked into an incredibly well-oiled machine. A lot of them are British and they had never been to Montana and they were obsessed and overwhelmed by it. Can we talk about your mom on Instagram making an Oreo chocolate pie and looking like she’s getting sloshed while drinking tequila? She’s a funny bird.
Everbody was surprised by that, but I was like, “I’m not.” The chick has fun. She let her hair down. On one episode, you talk
.Ashley Benson and Brandon Davis are enjoying a low-key night out.
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