in the world corrupted, you need to descend, ah, to join us in the depths all remained in the shallows. hey folks, next up on dennis miller plus one. so for chef darnell ferguson, you've seen him on guy's grocery games has a new show that he's the lead john over on discovery plus great concept, tiny food, fight all the flavors, all the cooking, all the implements, all the ingredients, small, great idea. darnell ferguson right up to this one. dennis miller plus one with a folks. welcome to dennis miller plus one. i always love to talk in the chefs, and today we've got darnell super chef ferguson on the shell. he is

a celebrity chef that has appeared on the rachel ratio. guy, fairies, a triple g guys. groceries don't confuse with the triple b. now i'm a real future fan, but this is a triple di and triple g. so don't confuse and be poppy plan. the food network, but what i'm most struck by is i, i think i saw a light up the great a g alex warner, shelly over some pork dish. and trust me that woman is a killer chefs. are good for super chef for beating her on guys, tournament of champions season one and 2. he is now the lead judge on the new food competition series. and this made me laugh out loud. tiny food fight. tiny food fight is currently available for streaming on discovery. plus, that's a long way of saying, please welcome darnell super chef ferguson. hey jeff, how you doing this thing? how much is so i've good, but i appreciate your carbon some time out for us. i know you are i i heard were earlier you were going to try to do it from the car such a a good egg,

but as he was with his kid sounds like get dad duty to day, brother. yes. and i bribed him with candy to be quite a candy in a world made me not talk that always works. and i listen. i have to say i could see it on your face because when you go up i, i saw a clip of him against the, like i said, the great alex garnish. shelly, they're both. they working with similar ingredients. and they're on the tour of the chip is rather you must have been pleased to knock her off because that is the m v p. i think no, exactly. is this you the one seed in that tournament? so it was the upset that even i was surprised when you were like, you were like sha minot and those tournaments before the season where you came in at the 8 seed and you under right, right out of the box for the last a leg to legs. you, i didn't even celebrate after i got on the list and i think it worked great for

brad. man that gave you some serious gravitas and my eyes. and i'll tell you what. on the opposite end of gravitas, it made me laugh out loud. i thought every permutation of a show about food had been done. but tiny food fight is such a great. it looks like it's the thunder dome of a moose bushes or something over there. explain. explain what we have here. dart out are, is a tiny school by which they get, this isn't as you did and i went into like what could this be about like i can go and it will blow your mind because as fun and whimsical in common, cool and laid back a series of the show is the food that these put together. we'll make say how in the world was this possible? well, i think in a long time now people are really familiar with food network,

the long time to a blank how i can't believe it. now, you know, they like how to make it to the size of a quarter, you know, because that's the basis for the size of the quarter. so easy, i make food. we're looking at 3 here. takes, you know, we're looking at your favorite food, the barbecue with, you know, we're looking at all these things 1st on the size of a quarter. and that's why everybody has yet to have paul read. come on his aunt, man, and do it. this will be of this will be the most school ranma you know what, whatever, i go to a great restaurant, chef and the, the big, the huge guys, the thomas colors of the world. the grand act catches the world. they always blow your mind right out of the box with an amused bush, something to set the pallet get the taste does percolating. i'm always impressed that they can get that much flavor into it. and it sounds from your description here. it's not about just being diminutive hair. it's

a big taste competition to write. good taste textures, the plating, you know, the same way we want big food a little bit. i want a tiny little, and i can't tell you you're want to be highly impressed. when you see what they were able to create, i mean i was standing there looking light and all of that because i thought it couldn't make it. yeah. so then it will be good. if you had a big kitchen, he's had to make food smaller. no, you got to cook a barby sized kitchen. so the flame is the candle. well, this is every, from my generation, i'm 67. we had the easy bake oven and used to put the cookie dough and a little water in the pan, and then put it up against an 800 watt light bulb. and it sounds like you're dealing with something akin to that over there in the tiny kits. it's goes maybe the others are not saying they are most in that, but they may be the all right, well give a look. it's tiny food fight folks,

and it's over on discovery. plus we're talking to darnell super chef ferguson. he's one of the host. is there another host or is it just you up and one man? no, the, the main attraction is main where your name is memory. she's the comedian, she's amazing. i mean, her personality is whimsical. she's as funny as you can ask for a host of be when the show is about chinese food was it was amazing. so she is the host and i kind of play off of her energy and it's a fun. so like the contestants or how every was having fun. who is, i mean, like even they have to make a show about what they're doing and they like, i came really doing it on tv. you know, it's a fun time. you know what you, what i called him a maybe 2 months ago. i called guy very, i knew him from years ago. i did one episode of diners drive ins and dies for a local company. i can't tell you how it help this restaurant up in santa barbara

where i live and i'm always touched by ferry. i hear people dismiss him sometimes on these. these reality shows are the food network. triple g, triple d. and i love the shows. i'm hooked. i can watch the food network all law. and i can't tell you how proud people are when they're with fairy. and i assume when you have these contestants on, that kind of find funny, but they want to do, well, i find it a lot more touching than i thought i would i, i think people are proud of their chops and they want to exhibit them and you have to be sort of delicate the way you treat them even on the things about bad shifts. i think you have to be cool about the way you handle the contestants. oh for sure. you know, a lot of times i even consent to have more so than i just say, i'll be on guy tonight. judging on a grocery game tonight was one that you gotta like, remember that i try to charity with hard out. you know, i drive, there are now, you know, i'm, or i'm and i thought

a life because in their time the song i'm ever competing on gross again or some other competing. and i, they really made me feel like i was meant to do this up. i would stop there, you know, so it's kind of cool because now i tell me the contest information. if you look up to you and i can tell you thanks for the words you say, you know? so it's a big thing like being around guy is just, you know, he's a, michael jordan, i'm or industry, you know, no matter if you think either stuff or not, i can guarantee you one being he finished. but it's kind of cool that you know for me in the summer, so it's kind of cool to see somebody who takes the shift world from a different perspective like he's, i just want show you how to go see how other people are clicking. yeah, i think guys, every man thing is beautiful that you know, not everybody's going to be at court on blue. i, you know, although guy has a great lineage, i think you and l. v becoming a chef, he's got great jobs, but he has that every man touch where you can see when

a guy showing him his corned beef hash outside of baltimore in a diner drive and dive. and he's proud of it and everybody in the neighborhood eats it and he brings it out to ferry and he gives properties and kisses. they're a little bump and he moves on. i always think your brother that that means so much them and you know what? it does the business star. now their business is never the same. again. it's not, they can't even keep up as a guy leave that you know, like that's where you have the story. nobody after dash. so comes on, can keep over there, changes everything for you. yeah, we're talking to darnell super chef ferguson and he's got a new show over there and discovery plus called tiny food fight. but i wanted to talk to him about his bonafide his chops. where do you, who do you learn to cook off of sometimes it's an older member in the family or was a your mom, your grandma are with where did you get your chops? man is a good i didn't learn from nobody. i'm a family guy because they were on the all their recipe and i can't make it

the restaurant of my moms and the rest. i always fun and my mom are in competition every time. so i learned it's always been my name ever since i would the location of school for i had a kid for cooking, but i would say like, nowadays, kind of like my inspiration who i look up to is more like i really looked up to like michael because you know, he, he's the one that likes at the bar to where i'm trying to get 2 cookie wise. i feel like michael latasha was me if i had, if he had no michelin training. i. yeah, he's got amazing jobs fan and he's very, he's like blade runner, man. he comes in fully tatted. he comes in, lean his leg visally with a spatula, but my man is ready to go and he gets in and it kills visit him. and his brother is again and yang. you know, the brothers is more accessible, good cop, bad cop. but both, you know, if i was pushing some grub across the table to end of the judge,

i'd be scared because mike, well, tadja is a beast. yeah. because that was what i look up to that, you know, it was the reason why i started looking. so a kid that made me, i never seen cooking in that kind of form. so you know what i like watching is, you know, i'm go to school for and i don't like it, me, somebody that you know, it was a win win situation for me and i got to meet emerald, spend time with him. so and just change my whole perspective even more. i'm like, man, this is the kind of guy because as much as i want to do tv, i want it to be a great shit before i ever got on. yeah. and that's well from emerald. well, you got emeralds and you got diamonds in the rough and we're talking to one darnell super chef ferguson. he's on to come over there at, at the food network. and also tiny food fight is currently available streaming on discovery plus b, u. c. m, as a judge, turns up i guys, grocery games be, bobby flay, all those things will come back. we'll talk about what a right time. it is a fittingly enough as a descriptor. what

a right time it is to be a chef in this country because you can go 2 ways now and you go down one path and market yourself. well, you're going to be, well, everything you talk to the kids is going to turn to gold. the big businesses, there are no ferguson right after this on dennis miller plus walk ah ah ah .

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so it helps them. my middle name is actually super show where people don't ever believe that. there you go. you're covered and there is a celebrity chef that it's appeared on. the rachel ratio. guy, fairies, grocery games be bobby flay. he was also in season $1.00 and $2.00 guys tournament of champions over there he is now the lead judge on new food competition. tiny food fight, which is vailable for screaming on discovery plus. boy, i'll tell you what occasionally i look at magazines when i'm on an airplane and they always have stories about food festivals. and that is a beautiful time to have some cooking chops and some personality in this country right now. isn't jeff? oh, i will say i'm leaning into the crime on the phone with this is not just the time this time is changing everything because outside of musician and now the athletes, you know, chef, they're going to be to talk to in the next couple years. you know,

because everybody loves to watch it. love to do it. it's, it's a growing growing, it's only going to keep moving forward. now the guy has kind of shape the way people see that. what did you take away from trade school? what are some of your key swing thoughts as a chef? what are you looking for? first data we talked earlier about textures? flavors, what, what are some of your will go to moves that you like and you know, everybody has something they prefer. tell me about your approach. my approach is always from the possibilities. i don't really work from what i've seen. i've seen some number for i don't want to do it again. so i always work in the realm of with possible how can i transform this into something? no one's ever heard of before, but that's a high value. you know, so 1st thing i do is always go from the creative side. and then after that i go back to the technical side. okay, there's a certain way to do everything. you know, i'm technically found even though my mind is out there and i will make some cerebral ice cream don't sandwich. but as i technically has to have the

smoke inside of it, it has to have the mason brown sugar has to have all of these nuances to make it be . so add, there are creatively. so how can i make somebody, i'm going to blow your mind when you hear this. so okay, how can i perfectly executed this? i think that refers back to one of your key decisions. i think in your fledgling days was you brought a high end dining to short or to cooking that in louisville. i love that, but you're seeing those 2, john together was a smooth move, brother telling me how it worked. and then he crum land down there in louisville. yes. so here in louisville. come mary. mecca. per capita. no more than a little bit more town. yeah. beside a small town in kentucky. no one know that, but it's so many fancy restaurant. they're not how they won number one. so we independently is so competitive here that i had to figure out like what's, what's my niche?

and i remember that i was in the, one of the best restaurants in america was like kind of mad magazine, most of the best restaurant america. and then there's cooking and no one i knew at ever been to a restaurant ever plan to go to a restaurant. and i was like, wow, like, everyday people were like so oblivious to only the critics to fool you knew how good is restaurant. now that you know what, i want to be able to cook for people like normal people, like people who will go out to eat, can only spend $15.00 for dinner or $20.00 for dinner. i want people who go into restaurants weekly or bi weekly. i want to come to my food like that. yeah. so you know where i'm going to pick the same standards that we have in these high and restaurants and you see it now. so it's the whole, the tree now, i'm doing the thing years ago. you know, so now you are, you were transferred. now you see all the how you have short order restaurants now

because that's where the money the money is out in the find any more money in the chicken places. the money's and all the type of a fast casual restaurant everyone converting over to something that asking a long time ago, which is you've got to be able to feed the masses. it's a massive, don't like your food. forget the critics, the masters have to agree to your great that the credit for teeth, you know, i like this whole narrative. good. everyday people don't agree that you're right. what you do. then i'm losing the mark somewhere, especially a 3rd brother because there's something primal about putting a smile on a human beings face by giving them sustenance. i remember my kid got out of college degree when i started baking bread for a while and he did it for a year. and i said, would you do that for it? he said, i lived in these towers of academies. i did, i dug my education i had fundraiser, but i didn't feel like i was really taken alive. i'm telling you when you pull a piece of bread out of an oven across the counter, and they're tearing it before they get out of the store and take a bite each,

i can't tell you what satisfaction i got out of that. no, it truly is in, it's like, you know, i imagined like a painter. oh, gets a painter canvas in and everybody wants the, their bidding like crazy. you know, it's a different billing to see your hands. make something in your mind. create something . and if the people just are bower it like, oh my gosh, like, you know what you are and what to do is eat, you know, my grandpa, he's still me all the time. no matter what people will have to eat. yeah. there's only so much coastal property and you should buy it if you have a chance and you get into food or coffee. i always think of that starbucks guy just said that one day that people are going to be drinking this till there's the end of time. i better get in on the surly. so yeah, there are certain things food being one of them. i. 4 listen, i was wondering who, you know earlier, i love the high low thing where you're flying high and techniques to sir regular fare for the working that i see that sort of morphed into

a cooking style that you describe as urban eclectic break that down for me. what do you mean by that? exactly chef. so i was watching the show on bravo cook and show i won't say his name. i was talking to bravo. and i remember seeing a chef i looked up to, he did molecular gas strong. a machine richer still in most of it? i think richard a couple weeks ago and he came back and he said the next thing he came back, he was a totally different chef. that what happened to me are my own identity is i was like the chef i worked for for so long. yeah. finally for my own identity. and so therefore, when i heard that at a young age at the, you know what? i'm a cook like myself from the get go when i'm learning from all these people, i'm going to create my own craft. i'm going to be known for certain telephone, and it was good and started champions last season. the here marcus samuel said, i want to my place say, hey, whoever this ship is, has his own lane,

like his food is so. so, you know, with me, because my judge and he's like, wherever this app is, has their own lane and his food rep. it looks like whoever it is, but this is not a normal looking like this. this has an identity. so early question is me saying that my food is related to everyday person? so it's, it's not the food that you wouldn't have had growing up at some point. but eclectic . i've learned a lot from being around the country because getting around the roku and so therefore it will be the future can relate to. but it will be in a way you haven't seen that's a compliment from mark a samuel center, because i view him as a, a chef. who lot of people have a chef. i'd have to figure out the pulse of their neighborhood, his neighborhoods, the world idea, this is a world chef and what a cool conflict that so mark is samuelson that such a cool vibe. this cat has a what is for door ahead on it looking good in

a risk, you know, richard, he was always great, but he used to come in dressed up in the ghost buster suit with the fries. okay. i take it easy. it's a all way ready? so what about chef? it is brick and mortar dad, do you what? open a restaurant, do you want to have your own pad? well, what do you want to do? where do you go from here? when i have a right now i have a total of $400.00 restaurants, so we're opening up a new one at the end of this month. and then i'm also that's where i've been on lately in my my, my actual culinary products will be in the grocery store and hopefully by the beginning of next year. so you'll be able to get a big matter, you'll be able to get my ranch, you get all the different products without a grocery stores. that's really where a big focus of mine is becoming a household name and synonymous with great food chef. when we look for the products

and the stores eventually will it be under the moniker super shaft for a super snow kitchen? ah, well that's beautiful everything. when you see this branding stuff. eventually, eventually i'm going to a store to get a super chef, mo mellon scoop or something. you know, that's where exactly how got and super. so products and how, who are you in the whole setup when you get home? super sure. get there. listen, i was like i said before we talk today, i heard you in the car with your kids and you still make a nice meal at home for the kids. right. you can still watch one of your favorites at home. give me a good home. this all at home, so i know some sound easy. i like to appreciate you being a lawyer. does i like valley? right? no, that's my main staple life. so i like to make a very good milky bis low, funny, or modern word of a them boozy. i absolutely like the like parisian no key. why in the

bath? at least you didn't hit me with the rabbit or a cat where you could have went back home. but yes, i listed, it's good to meet you van. and the big things come in for super chef over there. look for the products, it's donna ferguson and the new shell. sorry, i've lost my note here is called tiny food fight. i just saw the trailer to it. i haven't seen an episode yet, but it looks very funny and it is exactly as per advertised. they're trying to make great taste great textures. great look. plating the whole 9 yards. it's just the dishes are like this and some of the implement choose the supply. the dishes also like that great idea. somebody had over there at discovery plus and he is the head judge, darnell super chef ferguson. we appreciate your time. i man have a good life. oh man. yeah, the gray one as well. all right, i thought did down the road. that's darnell ferguson. this is dennis miller plus

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