The lifestyle icon recalled being served raccoon meat during an appearance on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ Monday
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You’re not likely to find raccoon meat on Martha Stewart’s dinner table.
The lifestyle maven, 83, visited Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday, April 28, to chat about working with José Andrés, 55, on their new NBC show, Yes, Chef!
“José is so charming,” Stewart said, as host Seth Meyers agreed, praising Andrés as “one of the most sweet human beings in the world.”
“And he’s also very funny,” Stewart added. “And he’s also very annoying.”
Stewart went on to recall that Andrés noticed that there were raccoons “around” while they were shooting the show.
“They were on the roof,” she explained. “You can hear them walking on the roof.”
According to Stewart, security cameras captured images of raccoons in the pantry of the show’s set prior to when they began filming.
“They finally saw them on the security cameras and got rid of them,” she continued. “So everything’s about raccoons. And you’ll hear it on the show. It’s very, very funny.”
Meyers wanted to make sure she wasn’t referring to the ingredients in the dishes made by the 12 chefs competing on the series, but Stewart assured him she wasn’t.
However, the conversation prompted her to look back on a memorable dinner party she attended, where the animal was one of the main courses.
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The event was a “raccoon and chicken supper.”
“You really went?” Meyers asked. “Did you try the raccoon?”
“No,” she told the talk show host. “But everybody else did.”
When Meyers asked if the other guests seemed happy with the meal, she replied, “Yeah, they loved it.”
“And you still wouldn’t try it?” Meyers asked.
“No, I don’t like to eat rare things,” she noted. “They’re rare on the table,” she clarified, when Meyers pointed out that the animal isn’t “that rare.”
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Stewart revealed something else she avoids during an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show Monday: food delivery.
“Do you want to know a secret? I have never ordered in,” she told a shocked Clarkson.
“My daughter will vouch for me,” Stewart insisted, referring to Alexis Stewart, 59.
“You have never been like, ‘It’s a Taco Bell night, we’re just doing it’?” Clarkson asked.
Andrés even asked for evidence of the surprising claim.
“Prove it!” he urged her. “People of America, if you have a photo of Martha Stewart ordering in, phone now. We want to see it! We demand an investigation.”
