The thing I like most about traveling is the randomness of it all. You know, finding yourself in strange situations that lead you to inquire, “How is this my life?” Thursday night definitely qualified as one of travel’s strange incidences, as I found myself cooking dinner in the Middle East with Brazilian supermodels. I’m not even kidding.
After hiking through the seriously breathtaking hidden city of Petra, our group headed out to the Petra Kitchen for dinner. Petra Kitchen is a restaurant that gives you the chance to cook Middle Eastern cuisine, and subsequently enjoy the fruit of your culinary efforts. I made tabbouleh, a popular Middle Eastern salad that seems to be consumed at all Jordanian meals. Although it’s relatively tasty, I’m glad to be back in America and exchange it for Chipotle for a while….
Anyway, at the Petra Kitchen, you cook in groups, each group making a different part of the meal. Besides our group, one other group was scheduled to help out with dinner that night—and they were annoyingly late.
We waited for more than an hour after chopping and dicing our part, for the other group to show up. I kept myself busy by sampling Jordanian red wine, but was getting hungrier by the minute. Finally, the group showed up. They were equipped with cameras, lights and really good-looking people. One woman with the group came up to apologize for their lateness, and I began inquiring about their presence in Jordan. They were Brazilians; here to shoot a soap opera in Petra, and tonight they were filming a little “things to do in Jordan,” promo with the soap stars. Apparently, the three really good-looking people talking on camera were big stars in Brazil – actors and supermodels. To us however, they were simply really tardy dinner-mates. Eating dinner with supermodels makes a good story though, plus, I didn’t really mind their lateness because the restaurant gave us a free drink as an apology.
An additional plus is they interviewed one member of our group, and filmed the rest of us in the background. So, if you happen to be in Brazil and find yourself viewing some soap opera named “Viver la Vida (hmm…sounds close to a popular song I know…) with an actor named Thiago cooking up a mad lamb/rice storm; look for a few American faces in the background. From what I heard of the soap opera’s plot, it seems like we may be the most exciting part of the show.
1 comment:
Oh colleen, i bet some brazillian just wrote a blog about how they showed up late to their cooking show and to their surprise, they got to cook with a bunch of american supermodels
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