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It was so frenetic: HBO Max follows Wolfgang Puck Catering
Chef Wolfgang Puck right, and his son Byron make a pasta dish at the Governors Ball Press Preview for the 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2020. A new four-part documentary series, “The Event,” on HBO shows the intense planning and details that go into high-profile catering. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
This image released by HBO Max shows Chef Pauline in a scene from the four-part documentary series, “The Event,” which shows the intense planning and details that go into high-profile catering. (Jessica Brooks/HBO Max via AP)
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Cooking a meal for a big group is always stressful. So just imagine cooking for over 1,000 guests. Now make those guests white-hot celebrities like Brad Pitt. That’s what usually faces chef Wolfgang Puck’s catering business, tasked with preparing hundreds of plates of miso-glazed salmon or slow-braised short ribs at buzzy events. Usually cameras are trained on the celebrities at such shindigs but with the new HBO Max series “The Event,” they have captured the cooks and servers toiling behind the scenes. It started airing last Thursday.
FILE – Chef Wolfgang Puck right, and his son Byron make a pasta dish at the Governors Ball Press Preview for the 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2020. A new four-part documentary series, “The Event,” shows the intense planning and details that go into high-profile catering. The series premieres on HBO Max on Jan. 14. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)