I do plenty of workouts - HIIT, spinning classes, Pilates, yoga.
— Antoni Porowski
I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.
Part of the intro to life in the public eye is, you get a bit of attention from fashion designers.
I don't cook around heat in my underwear.
I would want to do a cooking show. But I want to honor the opportunity that's been given to me with 'Queer Eye.' I feel like my work is cut out for me with the show alone. If it ever goes bust, then I'll explore that possibility.
I get really manic on set, and then to just get myself to a place where I'm alone in my apartment again, it's like this recalibrating thing that happens.
I could not be more thrilled to be writing about the recipes I love and think are essential to any novice home cook, professional, and somewhere in between.
Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.
When I was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, I would overdraft my bank account and not have enough money to buy groceries. But I also discovered how to cook with very limited resources.
Blue cheese and dates are really good if you wrap it in prosciutto. Roast it at about 400 degrees. I love having it with Fullman's mustard.
I love fantasizing about what my next meal is going to be; it's probably my favorite topic of conversation.
For the most part, it was never assumed that I was gay, and I've had people be sort of surprised that I was gay or act apologetic like they didn't know, which would just make me really uncomfortable. And I never had shame for it, but I never felt like introducing myself as, 'I'm Antoni. I'm gay. How are you?'
I was a busboy, a waiter, a manager, a sommelier... like... all of it from a family-run Polish restaurant, with, like, grandmas in the basement hand-making pierogies, to working at Bond Street for a while. I've done it all.
I don't listen to music that I won't like in a month.
The truth is that it has not been my pipe dream to have a restaurant. I know restaurateurs, and the amount of work that goes into a restaurant is nothing short of insanity. It's a real commitment, and most restaurants don't make it, so the odds are really against you.
My sexuality's something that's intimate. It's not anything that I'm ashamed of.
I am not as knowledgeable about the struggle for gay rights, for our history, the way some of my castmates or other gay men I know are.
I consider myself a hyperactive person.
My T-shirts wrinkle because I sweat a lot.
My father is Polish, and at 68, he still wears a Speedo to the beach, and he wears regular briefs - so did his father. That was my upbringing.
My problem with boxer briefs is sometimes they are a little too short, and they ride up your leg.
If the person needs avocados, then I'm not going to deny them avocados because some troll decided I use avocados too much.
I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.
There's not a lot of things that I'm confident about in life, but the way I feel about food is my one thing that I really feel such a strong connection to.
There's a deodorant I wear called Baux, from L'Occitane, that is super nostalgic because it reminds me of being in Greece in the summer. When I put it on, I'm immediately taken back to that feeling of having salty skin and hair from the ocean and the taste of fresh fish.
When I was around 18, I got kicked out of my parents' house, and I wasn't allowed to take anything with me. I slept on YMCA towels for a whole semester in university before my father found out and bought me a mattress. I felt really free because I was finally living on my own, but I was also really depressed because I had nothing.
I have a very non-existent, dysfunctional relationship with my biological mother.
My favorite book growing up was 'The Little Prince.'
I will forever be touched by anybody who has a choice to love someone, and they make a decision to.
My biggest nightmare is that something doesn't have enough salt.
I fell in love with The Strokes when I was 20, and I'm 34 now and still listen to them religiously.
On 'Queer Eye' I come in with what I know, and I try to parlay that into lessons for our 'heroes.' But that's really listening to what they need. Sometimes it's a little more ambitious. Sometimes it's very simplistic. But it's got to be something that's condensed into a short amount of time.
I was raised in Montreal, which is very multicultural, very liberal. Then I moved to New York.
I make the same noise after I eat too much as I do after I work out.
I'm definitely more of an extreme eater. I'm decadent on weekends and try to go plant-based during the week with a bit of fish - pescatarian thrown in.
I'm all about tucking in T-shirts.
I usually like loud T-shirts and band shirts, so I just try to keep it as simple as possible with jeans and white kicks that are worn in and, like, a simple jacket.
I have experience more on the front-of-house side of things, but I've always had a strong reverence and a respect for chefs... they've always been sort of like my rock stars.
I always take a shower now before I go to bed. It's so important just to cleanse everything off.
I love a good yoga class. I like to switch it up.
Food can offer a moment of pure emotional pleasure in an otherwise hard and difficult world.
After the passing of my personal hero, Anthony Bourdain, I've been reflecting a lot on his influence on food culture. He made street food from around the world, that most of us have never heard of, accessible.
Salt is so, so, so important. If that's the one thing everyone remembers, every step of the way, whenever I cook, I try to incorporate salt.
I love all dogs; I really do.
I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.
I was a pretty damn good waiter.
I still think it's weird that people are interested in what I like and what I represent.
I love fishy anchovies and sardines and that kind of stuff.
I don't have the biggest sweet tooth, but I do have one in the morning.
I'd lived in West Virginia on and off for four to five years growing up. I'm familiar with Bible Belt, with Appalachia, 'Hillbilly Elegy.'
