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  • - Tyra Banks here, and this is everything I eat in a day.

  • (relaxed music)

  • The first thing I do when I wake up, sadly,

  • is I check my phone.

  • I can't help it, I run a lot of businesses.

  • I have a huge one that I'm launching and I gotta start

  • as soon as those eyes open.

  • I love me some coffee, and I like my coffee

  • with a little bit of flavor in it.

  • And I'm not talking about those syrups and those powders,

  • I just mean the beans have been soaked in some vanilla

  • or some caramel infusation.

  • Is that a word?

  • And so I make my coffee black, no sugar no cream,

  • just my infused flavor.

  • And then, lately, I've been doing a bagel.

  • But let me tell you how I do my bagels.

  • I take my bagel, plain bagel on a day that I'm not

  • gonna be in front of somebody's face,

  • onion bagel if I'm gonna be speaking closely to people.

  • Wait, I said that opposite.

  • Funky breath if I'm gonna be close to people!

  • Okay, flop that, you know what I mean.

  • I cut the bagel in half and then I scoop out

  • all that extra bagelization and put that on the side.

  • Then I take my whipped cream cheese and I dig deep

  • into that pot of it and I fill up the entire scooped-out

  • bagel rounds like a moat.

  • But I'm not finished yet.

  • Then I take that plate of that moated cream cheesed bagel

  • and I put it inside of the microwave,

  • and I shut the door and then I set it for 20 seconds.

  • And then what starts to happen is the molecular makeup

  • of that cream cheese starts to change.

  • It's like a science project.

  • And when you take it out of the microwave,

  • it's not just heated, oh no.

  • It's creamy and it has a slightly tart flavor

  • that it didn't have pre-microwave.

  • I blow on it, because if I take a big bite,

  • it's gonna burn my lips, so I have to blow,

  • and then I slowly bring it to my mouth and I bite...

  • And I try to get the cleanest bite,

  • but there's whipped cream, cream cheese, whatever cream,

  • all over my lips, and then I lick it and I lick it

  • until it is all gone.

  • (laughing)

  • At work at ModelLand, the team is working nonstop,

  • and we often don't have time to take a break for lunch.

  • So I go into our snack box and I just go, hmm,

  • do I want corn chip, or do I want sesame bar?

  • Which sounds weird, but it is so good.

  • Or do I want some kinda like natural licorice,

  • or do I want some bean chips, or do I want some,

  • like, cauliflower puffs?

  • And sometimes I want every single one of those.

  • And so for the rest of the afternoon, I open bag after bag

  • and eat them one by one until there's like,

  • nine bags in front of me and I feel disgusting.

  • I have a very interesting relationship with food.

  • I have to say that it is one of the most

  • important things in my life.

  • A lot of my personal life and the things that I like to do

  • and my hobby is food.

  • Finding new restaurants, doing a challenge where I can't go

  • to the same restaurant again for six months,

  • finding food festivals.

  • I love a supper club.

  • It is a true, very important thing to me.

  • So much so that right now, you can't tell because I have on

  • a men's blazer, I am 25 pounds heavier than I was

  • on the cover on a very famous swimsuit magazine

  • that came out last year.

  • So it's like, you're tired and you're working hard,

  • you just go to this fast food and this fast food

  • and this fast food and you compare the burgers.

  • So I'm 30 pounds heavier, and it'll come off one day.

  • But not today.

  • For dinner, I love doing something that's a little special,

  • and it's a little bit indulgent.

  • I go to a delivery app and I choose two different

  • restaurants with the same cuisine.

  • Let's say Mexican.

  • Let's call this place La Rancha,

  • and let's call this place La Burrito Titi.

  • La Rancha, I will order nachos,

  • I will order nachos from La Burrito Titi.

  • I'll order enchiladas con carne, I'll order one here.

  • And then they come almost at the same time,

  • and then there's the taste test.

  • I do it with my son, I do it with my man,

  • we line it up and then we score the different restaurants

  • with the same items, and what happens is,

  • the next time you order, you know where to order from,

  • 'cause one of 'em is always nasty.

  • I cook a couple of different things.

  • One thing that I recently cooked,

  • that I have to say that I perfected,

  • at the Culinary Institute near Napa, California,

  • is my sriracha maple bacon jerky candied yum.

  • I take bacon, it must be cured, and it must be very smoky,

  • and I create a sauce on the side that is maple syrup,

  • but it has to be fake maple syrup, not that fancy

  • Canadian stuff, and some sriracha.

  • I mix it into this, like, wonderful elixir,

  • then I dip the bacon in that, dip dip dip, dip dip dip,

  • dip dip dip, and then I lay the bacon out,

  • and then I like, actually grind pepper all over it

  • into big chunks, I place it in the oven,

  • and I have to watch it so it doesn't burn,

  • but it starts to almost crystallize and caramelize

  • and then it starts to jerky-ize.

  • That is a word.

  • It starts to jerky-ize, and then it comes out of the oven

  • and it is almost like candy.

  • It is so good.

  • And that's everything I eat in a day.

- Tyra Banks here, and this is everything I eat in a day.

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