Hugh Hefner’s Strict Food Rules Were As Unique As His Lifestyle

Hugh Hefner, writer of the grownup way of life journal Playboy, nonetheless lives on as an icon even after he died in 2017. In addition to extravagant events and delightful ladies, Hefner loved the meals he ate, although in his particular method. 

Hugh Hefner was personal when it got here to his enjoyment of meals. JJ Reinhart, Hefner’s chef for eight years, recalled him ducking away for his meals slightly than consuming out with company, Playmates, or girlfriends. Thanksgiving dinner was the one time Hefner would come out and eat with these round him. Even each time Hefner would head out to a restaurant, he would have his cooks prep a meal at dwelling to have the restaurant employees prepare dinner. The prepped meals would come with particular directions for the restaurant’s cooks in order that his meals was made and introduced as he preferred, which some might take into account as going past the quantity you need to customise a dinner order earlier than it is thought of impolite.

Though if Hefner had been to truly eat out at a restaurant, it could have been at his favourite, The Melting Pot. Hefner even cherished this nationwide chain of fondue eating places a lot that the Playboy-centric actuality sequence “The Girls Next Door,” devoted a whole episode to it. In the episode, the manufacturing turned the Playboy Mansion right into a Melting Pot (which was plotting a comeback in 2024) for his and his spouse’s fifth anniversary.

In phrases of meals on the Playboy Mansion, Hefner might select from 31 gadgets on its menu, regardless of the time of day. Each meal correlated to a quantity in order that Hefner might shortly name in his order. Some of the meals had been easy consolation meals, equivalent to grilled cheese and potato chips or hen strips and baked potato. Many of the gadgets associated to Hefner’s Midwestern background and love for the area’s meals, like fried hen and mashed potatoes. For dinner, Hefner was identified to dine on lamb chops, a lot in order that his chef William Bloxsom-Carter even shared the recipe for Hugh Hefner’s Lamb Chop Dinner with Gourmet. 

Possibly the quirkiest of Hefner’s meals habits, although, was his every day grapefruit. Every single day, Hefner would eat half a grapefruit. which weighs round 4 ounces.  Eating half a grapefruit for one year would equate to consuming greater than 91 kilos of the citrus fruit per yr. By method of comparability, the common American solely eats round 1 ½ kilos of grapefruit in a yr (or, at the very least they did, till folks stopped consuming grapefruit for breakfast). So, it goes with out saying that when it got here to meals, Hefner had his quirks.