Cookin’ With Brooklyn,” it took a team of 62 professionals to help him demonstrate how to make a sandwich — including a “culinary producer” who approves the recipes, five camera operators and nine producers.“It’s unheard of,” a senior TV executive told The Post. “It’s the sort of crewing you would expect on a big TV show.”There’s also a big TV budget: Insiders say each episode of the show, which airs on Facebook Messenger and Instagram (where Brooklyn has 13.1 million followers), costs $100,000.
The sandwich Brooklyn “makes” is a take on traditional British fish and chips, updated by putting sea bream topped with a hash brown and coleslaw into a bagel.Brooklyn, however, does not make or cook a single element of the sandwich.
He only spreads aioli mayonnaise on the bagel and lays the ingredients made by others on top. He doesn’t know how to batter or fry a piece of fish.
He has no idea how long it might take to fry a hash brown.Without irony he tells the camera, “With sandwiches, you can go so many different ways.
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