HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea

Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Raz. So you know the scenes in movies and TV shows where the characters are eating an incredible meal, or maybe eating something really disgusting? Have you ever thought, I wonder how that would really taste, or even could I actually make that? Well, that's the kind of thinking that inspired Andrew Ray to start a YouTube channel in 2016. He called it binging with Babish, and whether it's the burger cook-off from Parks and Recreation, or the Prison Pasta Sauce from Goodfellas, or Remy the Rat's cooking from Ratatouille, Andrew has made them all, and many, many more. And along the way, he's built binging with Babish into one of the most popular cooking channels on YouTube.

with nearly 10 million subscribers. He's also published two cookbooks and helped to create his own line of cookware. Now Andrew is not a professional chef. In fact, his videos often feature his failures as well as his successes. And in the past couple of years, his channel has expanded to include videos on cooking techniques, simpler recipes, and even guest chefs. The channel is now known as the Babish Culinary Universe, and as you will hear, It's become a very big business. Alright, so you

Uh you grew up in upstate New York, right? Yes, uh outside Rochester, uh home of uh Xerox, Kodak, and Bashulam. When did you first start getting into cooking? Oh when I was very young, uh my

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