In autumn, the TV Center channel launched a new consumer talk show, Natural Selection. One of the hosts of the program is a famous showman, journalist Otar Kushanashvili. Four times a week, Otar, together with co-host Zinaida Rudenko, teaches viewers how to choose products, appliances, household chemicals, etc. Interestingly, what do we prefer Otar himself? And does she go shopping in the store?
About “Natural Selection”
– This is the first time I run a program of this kind. This is despite the fact that at home they jokingly call me “defender of the oppressed.” But until now I was in demand as, let’s call it mildly, an intellectual clown, a buffoon, an ironist-catastrophist (one of the daughters awarded me such a title). This is entirely the merit of the producers – they saw in me a suitable guy, having scanned me, “they made out the taste of apples.” Of course, it’s hard for me, the difficulties are darkness, but this is a job that I adore. And what difficulties can be frightening if you love your job? I would rather speak here about fear. Fear of not living up to the hopes of good people who believe in me and me. But this fear does not bother me, but inspires, mobilizes and disciplines.
About colleague Zinaida Rudenko
Since December 5, Zinaida Rudenko, an expert food technologist, has hosted the talk show with Otar.
– Zinaida Rudenko is a true find for the program: she looks like an aonida, knows how and what to say, a record holder in adaptation (the debut was stunning!), Moderately sentimental, not afraid of antiphase. She is also a bundle of energy, but energy, in contrast to me, controlled. Craftswoman to achieve perfect tension. She works honestly, gets very tired, but here she was incredibly lucky with me, an intellectual jester.
About your preferences and cooking
– The paradox – let’s call it the “Kushanashvili incident” – is that, being a natural, one hundred percent, full-blooded Georgian, I have never been a gourmet. Food for me is first an indicator of self-esteem, and then pleasure. You see, I am responsible for a huge number of people, and I must be not just in shape, but in excellent shape, excluding the neatly regular devouring of my favorite khachapuri and khinkali. It would be good for all of you to know that for the sake of “Natural Selection” I lost 12 kilograms! Above all, it is also respect for the viewer, that same work ethic.
As for cooking. “I am a nightingale, and, apart from songs, there is no other benefit from me.” I don’t know how to cook. But I am a very, very, very grateful consumer.
About shopping
“I can also go to the grocery store for my family. As Leonid Parfyonov would put it, “I’m not that kind of an anxious prince of ether” (to avoid buying kefir). But going to the store is an art and a science at the same time, and I am impatient and overly sociable. The store, as you understood from the program, presupposes a certain concentration with concentration.
About vegetarianism and proper nutrition
– In my family I do not observe vegetarians, but I observe that everyone without exception wants to look good. So, everything is on the ointment!
About children
– The father of seven children, the most beautiful and intelligent children (of course!), Whom I teach by my example the main thing: in matters of morality, it is not a shame to be a retrograde. It’s very, very, very hard for me, but I’m very, very, very happy – I’m 46, I’m just warming up.
Blicopros
– What do you like to eat for breakfast?
– First-class coffee and thoughts only about the good.
– What is your favorite food?
– Mom’s lobio.
– What is the most disgusting dish you have ever tried?
– Property of memory: I forget all bad things in a second. So I don’t remember.
– Favorite dessert?
– I’m not a sweet tooth.
– Favourite drink?
– Borjomi.