The Tennessee-based Kings of Leon have gone and grown up on us. Fresh on the heels of their brand new album, Come Around Sundown, the roots of their sound lie in slap-happy, vaguely druggy takes on Southern rock and the blues, but sonically, they’ve blossomed into arena-ready alterna-boys.
Never ones to sit on their royal laurels, the Kings have officially cleared the summit of our post-post-modern, post-ironic, quasi-authentic age: A member of their entourage has appeared, without making a fool of himself, on everyone’s favorite foodie reality TV show–The Iron Chef.
Caleb Followill is often snapped by the stalkerazzi at hot spots like Tao in NYC and Petrossian in LA, so it’s no surprise that his foodie chops are well-seasoned and trim.
Marc Vetri and Michael Symon battled it out over an entire side of humanely raised black angus veal and all of its offal goodies–quite a secret ingredient for a first-time judge.
No worries though. Not only did Followill not make a fool of himself, he embraced the ingredient with a borderline alarming degree of passion, saying of one dish featuring marrow, he wanted to “smear it in my beard and take it home.”
Check Followill breaking his foodie cherry, below:
TOPICS: Eat to the Beat, Kathleen Willcox