Controversy surrounding yesterday's episode of the cooking show Mezzogiorno in famiglia, hosted by Antonella Clerici on Rai1, in which a chef, while preparing a recipe, explained that you can “numb booty” with wine, referring to women.
Chef Sergio Barzetti, along with sommelier and TV writer Andrea Amadei, were preparing a risotto with radicchio. Half a glass of Prosecco was used to prepare it and – as the presenter emphasized – “we drink the other half and from then on one thing leads to another. That's why Andrea Amadei became a sommelier.” “When you cook at home, break the ice immediately and then cook better with a glass next to you,” he replied. Here's the offensive joke, which the audience received with laughter: “And then you go and do something important: stun the prey,” Barzetti said. To which Clerici tried to remedy the situation: “Put like that, it’s not nice.”
However, the chef continued and also spoke of “baiting” instead of wooing (a verb suggested by the presenter herself because it was “more elegant”) and described the first meeting with his wife: “When I baited Laura, we were “were at a cooking class,” she said. “I immediately saw her among the many. Damn, guys, not all of my students are usually this young. I saw a boy and started walking. I tried to pursue her and gave her a drink to numb her, but I didn't know she was a teetotaler.
“The exchange of words in the morning show of Rai1, hosted by Antonella Clerici, is unbearable,” comments Barbara Floridia, president of Rai Supervision Culture of Rape in the Public Service: Is it possible to say certain sentences amid general laughter? We cannot tolerate the use of phrases like “stunning the prey” in reference to women. I hope that professionals like Antonella Clerici are always ready to intervene forcefully to stigmatize expressions of the type”.
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