Tennesse has had some elite talent rise from the soil in Penny Hardaway, Bailey Howell, and others, but they can't compare to the basketball icon that is Oscar Robertson. Hailing from Charlotte, Tennesee, Robertson relocated to Ohio where he would play collegiate basketball at the University of Cincinnati. Throughout his three-year college career (1957-60), Robertson would go on to average a total of 33.8 points per game, the third-highest in United States college basketball history.
This trend would continue well into his professional NBA career where he became known as the original Mr. Triple-Double. In the 1960 NBA Draft, Robertson was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals where just two years later he would become the first NBA player ever to average a triple-double. Throughout his fourteen-year NBA career, the 6'5 point guard would be selected for the NBA All-Star game a total of twelve times, selected All-NBA First Team nine times, receive one MVP Award (1964), and become a contributing member to the Milwaukee Bucks one-and-only NBA Championship.
Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.
Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.
Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.