Antoni Porowski Cooks His Way Through His Memories

Antoni Porowski likes peas — frozen peas, specifically, which, when paired with really good cultured butter, some nice finishing salt and fresh mint, are suddenly a respectable meal. That’s a good use for frozen peas — that and mac and cheese with peas, Porowski’s “number-one favorite dish.” It’s not exactly the ingredient one would expect from a culinary professional, one who has made his fame for teaching people about food on TV. But Porowski is famously unpretentious when it comes to food, liking a bit of a high-low moment in the kitchen more and more these days. “I don’t care what anyone says,” he says, reclining on an outdoor sofa on a Midtown Manhattan terrace earlier this summer. “I can f–k with peas all day long.” It’s not just that he likes peas — he likes the history they hold for him, of growing up in a Polish household in Montreal a picky eater who hated vegetables, and later turned to them and their cheap price tag when trying to make it as an actor in New York. It’s how Porowski talks about food: everything is tied to something, everything has emotion and nostalgia and personal history. Porowski, who rose to global fame in

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