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Playing with their food
Alissa Bigelow and Deran Sarafian tape a pilot episode of a TV cooking show at Rustic Kitchen in Park Square. (bill brett for the boston globe) |
By Carol Beggy & Mark Shanahan
Globe Staff / February 19, 2008
Early yesterday morning Rustic Kitchen, Jim Cafarelli´s Park Square restaurant, was already bustling with plates of food being sent out to happy diners. But the several dozen people gathered weren´t just any patrons - they had already been through the makeshift hair and makeup department and were ready to begin filming a pilot episode of a TV cooking show "In the Kitchen With Alissa Bigelow." The eatery´s in-house studio has been used for special demonstration dinners and to film a previous version of the show -with Bigelow as host - that ran on the Internet. Cafarelli got nibbles from national outlets, but that required a slicker and bigger show. (And that meant hiring a full crew to film three shows over the weekend.) Bigelow, a former actress who worked for NESN for two years, called upon her friend "House, MD" director Deran Sarafian to work as a consultant and co-producer for the pilot. "Alissa´s a natural. She´s the kind of presence in the kitchen people can relate to," said Sarafian, who signed on before the writers´ strike was settled. When Bigelow flubbed a bit about wine with her onscreen sidekick, Carlos "Pepe" Flores, and Rustic Kitchen´s chef, Tom Holloway, which on any other cooking show would have meant the director yelled cut, Cafarelli just stood back and smiled. The restaurateur said: "That´s it. That´s our gold right there. That´s what this show is all about. Fun in the kitchen with regular people."
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