Netflix will unveil its newest original cooking show,\u00a0\u201cCooking On High,\u201d\u00a0on June 22. The series is in the style of cooking competition programs such as\u00a0\u201cIron Chef,\u201d but with a particular twist \u2014 all recipes must be prepared with cannabis, and be psychoactive enough to give the celebrity judges a buzz.<\/p>\n
Hosted by\u00a0YouTube wunderkind<\/a>\u00a0Josh Leyva, the program will highlight fellow comedian, notorious cannabis enthusiast and Cannabis Now contributor<\/a> Ngaio Bealum as resident \u201cculinary weed expert.\u201d<\/p>\n Bealum promises to be quite the draw, with a personality that merges comical schtick and an activist sensibility. As the\u00a0Sacramento Bee<\/a>\u00a0reports, Bealum previously co-hosted the online TV series\u00a0\u201cCannabis Planet<\/a>\u201d\u00a0and has appeared on\u00a0\u201cThe Sarah Silverman Program<\/a>.\u201d His\u00a0bio page<\/a>\u00a0calls him \u201can American comedian, musician, writer, actor, activist, juggler and publisher,\u201d with the wry note that he \u201cwas born in San Francisco to hippie parents, leading to jokes about how he got his name.\u201d<\/p>\n In his stand-up patter, Bealum riffs on cannabis in ways that merge the topical with the personal. \u201cMy kids know I smoke weed,\u201d he says in one routine about his two children. \u201cThanks to weed, dad will take them to any animated feature ever. \u2018What, the panda knows kung-fu? Get in the car!’\u201d<\/p>\n On a more serious note, after the November 2016 passage of Prop 64, the initiative to legalize cannabis in California, Bealum\u00a0told the Sac Bee<\/a>: \u201cYou don\u2019t know how relaxing it is as a cannabis user [and] especially as a person of color. I\u2019ve been a road comic since 1990. I\u2019ve had my car searched. Now cops can\u2019t use, \u2018You smell like weed a little bit\u2019 as an excuse to search you. That\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, Bealum is well aware that he\u2019s pushing the cultural envelope. In a May\u00a0column for the Sacramento News & Review<\/a>, he wrote about the YouTube\u00a0crackdown on cannabis content<\/a>: \u201c[L]ast month, YouTube started shutting down cannabis-based channels from all over the world. YouTube hasn\u2019t offered any explanations, and there is no clear-cut pattern for who gets deleted. There is still plenty of cannabis content on YouTube, leaving many cannabis-laced content creators perplexed and perturbed. After all, many people rely on their YouTube channels, not just to reach a global audience, but to generate a little revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n Although\u00a0\u201cCooking On High<\/a>\u201d\u00a0will only be available to those 18 and over, the concept is still pretty edgy \u2014 even for the age of legalization.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As all featured recipes must get you high, the chefs will have to be adept at the skills of decarboxylation and THC\u00a0extraction as well as the more usual culinary arts. Netflix has recently\u00a0come under pressure<\/a>\u00a0to cancel their popular teen-focused show \u201c13 Reasons Why\u201d because of its depictions of violence, including suicide and rape. And Netflix\u2019s international expansion has\u00a0raised questions<\/a>\u00a0about whether edgy content will be available worldwide \u2014 even in countries with more conservative attitudes. It will be interesting to see if\u00a0\u201cCooking On High\u201d\u00a0manages to steer clear of such controversies.<\/p>\n Among the 17 celebrity judges thus far announced is Ramon Rivas II, co-founder of Cleveland-based collective and festival\u00a0Accidental Comedy<\/a>. Although now living in Los Angeles, Rivas remains something of a hometown hero, winning his participation in the show with a write-up on\u00a0Cleveland Scene<\/a>\u00a0website. It notes that he was recently featured on Viceland encouraging students to \u201cDrop Out and Move To Cleveland<\/a>,\u201d and often sports a \u201cMake America Cleveland Again<\/a>\u201d t-shirt.<\/p>\n \u201cI usually don\u2019t really do edibles because I have such a high tolerance and I am so large that they feel wasted on me,\u201d Rivas told the Scene, summing up what could be\u00a0a recipe for success for the show\u2019s competitors. \u201cIt was cool to see [cannabis] infused into actual gourmet, restaurant-quality foods by legit chefs.\u201d<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, would you watch a cannabis cooking competition?<\/p>\n The post Netflix to Debut \u2018Cooking on High,\u2019 a New Cannabis Cooking Competition<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Netflix will unveil its newest original cooking show,\u00a0\u201cCooking On High,\u201d\u00a0on June 22. The series is in the style of cooking competition programs such as\u00a0\u201cIron Chef,\u201d but with a particular twist \u2014 all recipes must be prepared with cannabis, and be psychoactive enough to give the celebrity judges a buzz. HostedContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,4509,112,99,4510,4359,127,4511,4512,669],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26753,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26752\/revisions\/26753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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