An interview with Ron Jeremy, chef.

There's a new website dedicated to user-generated cooking videos, imcooked.com. What can you expect to find there? Among other things: Ron Jeremy, chef.

His knives are crap, but does a fair job of flipping an omelet in the pan, a skill he learned from short-order cooks when he was a waiter in the Catskills. Also discussed: Food on porn sets, his ties to Barney Greengrass and evidence that food is better than sex.

I reached Mr. Jeremy at the New York home of his 89-year-old father; Jeremy was in town to host the city's annual Halloween Parade. (Video credit: Brian Gross)

My dad taught me how to cook.

How did that happen? For your dad's generation, that wasn't a skill a lot of men had.

My dad knew how to cook from the army. And my dad did it for us because my mom had Parkinson's. So he had to cook for five people. We all learned how to cook.

What do you cook?

I love chopping up salads. I learned to cook some pretty good fish. (Dad, inaudible) Yeah, I went fishing in Florida and brought back fish. What kind of fish? Some deep-sea fish, I don't know what it was. I was on (Screw publisher) Al Goldstein's boat. We cooked it by wrapping it in aluminum foil with a little mayo and pepper. Surprising, it was really delicious.

Are you aiming to do a cooking show?

Eh, sure. Why not, if I'm asked to do that. But I'm not that knowledgeable. I'm better known for eating.

How's the food on porn sets?

It all depends. It's fairly good. It used to be pizza and sandwiches, but now people want to be healthy. This one time I was shooting with a producer who does a lot of -- I want to say this delicately -- rear entry scenes. And he'd have a lot of Mexican food! What the hell are you thinking?

In Europe, especially Italy, it doesn't matter what they're doing; they stop to eat. I was shooting on a boat off Majorca and it's about to rain and Ciccolina, the entire crew, walked: "Oh, that's-a lunch. Nice." That chef is more important than Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson combined.

You have a favorite restaurant?

I'm related to the Greengrass family. Barney and his brother Meyer -- I'm a direct descendent of Meyer -- he became the sturgeon king. My great-great grandfather is Barney's father. So out of courtesy, yeah, that's my favorite.

Favorite dish?

You. You little dish, you! I love shrimp, lobster, artichokes. I love everything except blue cheese dressing.

When are you going to get a decent set of knives?

I know. I will get a decent set.

Ron Jeremy's best-selling autobiography, The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz, comes out in paperback in February.

Comments

[Big Bomb]

He needs some Warther Knives from Mooney Warther, the master carver.