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Chef's Games: "During the program I abused myself, I was on edge. Maybe that's what broke me" - Voila! Food

2023-02-07T05:44:17.465Z


Chef's Games: Chef Tamar Cohen was right and contestant Barbara Tslilim Avi conclude a season alongside chef Moshek Roth, and prepare for the final and the day after the cameras. All the details in Walla's article! Food >>>


Barbara Tslilim Avi and Moshik Roth, from "Chef's Games" ("Chef's Games", Network 13)

Energies and drive and passion for kitchens and a constant cooking fire aside, if Tamar Cohen Tzedek and Barbara Tslivi Avi had a few more hours in this day, they would probably choose to spend them just like this, around the small wooden table at "Cucina Hess 4".



The two recreate complex meals and no less complex dramas, long filming days and everyday events that just happened to be photographed, edited and sat on the sofa in quite a few homes in Israel as the sixth season of "The Chef's Games".

Anyone who knows and knows, understands that there is a big gap between what happened and the edited episode.

They are aware of this, and are not trying to tell a story of non-existent primetime authenticity here.

Instead, they choose to surprise and say simply that sometimes the cameras, and the production, know how to refine, soften, mediate.



Yes, the extreme moments were put together in a pressure cooker, but what came out of it was balanced, and delicious.

None of them would be here otherwise.

"Surprised us too."

Cohen Tzedek and Tzalil Avi (Photo: Ilan Lorenzi)

"The senses sharpened, and I went into the amok that I had to have it. It created in me a crazy longing and a crazy desire"

"I've always been on the fringes, never in the mainstream," Tslivi Avi began, "and when I got to the show, one of the things that bothered me the most was that I wouldn't get a part in the audience's throat, with all the tattoos and opinions and everything. Since I was sure that it would happen, and that they wouldn't pass me, I just I went for my most natural, I said I had nothing to lose, and it worked."



This thought pattern helped her in the first stages, but the rest was a little more challenging.

"I didn't think I would make it to the finals, and the more I progressed, the more I wanted it. My senses sharpened, and I realized that I had to do it. It created a crazy longing and a crazy desire in me."



This process is also well expressed from Cohen Tzedek's point of view.

"Just as she surprised herself, she surprised us too," she repeated, "we saw her potential at the beginning of course, but we knew she was inexperienced, only when we saw that every dish she brought out was wow, we realized and told each other that we have to stop being surprised by her" .

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"I went for the most natural."

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"I went into the pantry alone, and I just cried hysterically. Suddenly, I raise my head and see two cameras on me"

The morning of the final catches them very calm, with the luxury of televisions in the form of rolling laughter over what, until a few weeks ago, was a crisis, or simply with one of the most pleasant feelings for the human soul - the proportional hindsight.



So, in real time, it was different of course.

"In some episodes, what was broadcast even refined the reality," described Tslivi Abi, "When I served locusts, for example, and I thought it wasn't cooked enough, I can say that the production was even gentle with me.



"Wow, I cried there.

I don't even know what brought me to this state, long minutes of tears, like a baby whose toy was stolen.

I went into the pantry alone, and just cried hysterically.

Suddenly, I look up and see two cameras on me.

So yes, there were more dramatic moments than how it was edited and broadcast, they were nice."

"I was on edge."

Tslivi Avi (Photo: Ilan Lorenzi)

"I was exhausted, slept four hours a night and yet ran for a 13-hour shift in the morning. I wanted my mind to think all the time only about food, not about friends and not about anything else"

What was described here, it turns out - the intensity and extreme prime time - was an almost integral part of her life during the weeks (the long ones, this season started even before the World Cup and the holidays, mind you) leading up to the final.

She faced it with bare honesty, and tells about it with even more bare honesty.



"During the program, I simply abused myself. I have no other way to describe it. I decided that I wanted to be focused on this, so every time I got home, even after a long day in the studios there, I took another shift at work," she described, "I was done, I slept four hours at night and yet ran for a 13-hour shift in the morning. I wanted my mind to think all the time only about food, not about friends and not about anything else. Maybe that's also what caused me to fall apart like that, because I was on edge."

The food is in the center.

On the set of "Chef Games" (Photo: Ilan Lorenzi)

"I'm terribly stressed from talking and letting out. I'm not like that, I'm a very guarded and very private person, and suddenly I'm revealing"

Her initial fear of "not going over well" dissipated, therefore, both internally ("In the end it turned out upside down, I get crazy love from the audience") and according to the test result.

Like her, Cohen Tzedek went through a similar process in its characteristics, and it seems that it is also similar in its conclusions.



"Somewhere I surprised myself," she said about her decision to go to the auditions and put herself in front of the camera after years of constant, but low, restaurant fire. Somehow, I was convinced, and I don't regret it."



The "Chef Games" itself helped her, as a format that prefers to highlight food over folklore.

"We speak very professionally, and not so much as surfers, yes, but I was still speechless the first time I had to speak to the camera, and even young contestants found themselves cheering me on. I'm terribly stressed from speaking and speaking. I'm not like that, I'm a very reserved and very private person, and suddenly I reveal. To this day I see what is not good, and where I am weak. The process is not over."

"Somehow, I was convinced."

Cohen Tzedek (Photo: Ilan Lorenzi)

"I'm not opening another restaurant, but only interested in doing what I do, the best I can - as a chef, as a mother, as a human being"

Some of the things she talks about are of course also her hidden secret.

"I feel that I'm very authentic. Very much me, but it's not always televised. I'm working on it," she admitted, "some say that's what's charming, but I know I can still improve."



According to her, "I'm a little different from my colleagues in my approach to the profession and my ambitions, and I realized that I'm very much at peace with that, and it's okay that I'm like this and they're like that, and that it doesn't mean I'm less professional or less good. I'm not opening another restaurant, but just interested in doing what I I do, the best I can - as a chef, as a mother, as a human being. And that's fine."

A career- and life-changing move.

my father's voice

We close an hour in the fresh space of "Cucina", which is at the same time the newest and the one that has always been here.

Not surprisingly, this achievement did not include external design work and did not land here architects and contractors, but mostly loving hands at work, including Cohen Tzedek herself of course.



"When it's me, it's easy," she will say later while describing the hypocrisy and makeup and logistics of Tel Aviv restaurants that have to wait anxiously for the decision of an old tattooist neighbor if he really moves to the north, "I'm not trying to do anything else."



She finishes just as Tzlili Avi enters, makes a short turn, is impressed by what she experienced not long ago as a "construction site", and concludes with a quite precise and quite moving compliment - "In my opinion, this is the closest you can get to Italy in Israel".

Ready for the sharp turn.

Tslivi Avi (Photo: Dolev Marciano)

"I'm scared to death. There's an almost paralyzing desire, and I have to breathe"

Despite the years and the status, the experiences and the insights, both of them stand today at the same crossroads, the essence of which, in a simple human essence, is what I want to do versus what people want me to do.



Tslivi Avi is still juggling between Tel Aviv and her partner in Berlin, but knows that she "must be here as much as possible now. With the exposure and attention and opportunities that will come. I wanted a career boost, I was ready for a sharp turn, so go ahead."



She looks at the reality show, and reality, with clear and open eyes, and "doesn't want to block anything", but says in the same breath what any inexperienced television graduate should say.

"I'm scared to death. There is an almost paralyzing desire, and I have to breathe. This world of reality TV can give you a gift or a tool, but it can also blind you, blurring between a momentary television fantasy and reality. For me, this could be a career-changing, life-changing move."



Cohen Tzedek listens, agrees and makes it possible to understand that the path is important, and that it is possible to reach the destination through all kinds of paths, even those that include mistakes.

"I didn't expect to feel so enveloped," says Tslivi Avi Shania before the farewell hug, "Tamar made me feel special, there is a natural connection between us."

The "Chef Games" finale will be broadcast tonight (Tuesday, February 7, 9:15 p.m.) on Network 13

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