Cooking was never so twisted or spicy until Nadia G stepped on the scene.

Nadia G, once a sketch comedy star from Montreal, is producing a new cooking show and wrote cookbook full of fun, kinky dishes for every occasion.

“I can make fun of my cake and eat it too,” Nadia said.

An only child who grew up around an Italian family catering company, Nadia, didn’t follow her parents into the family business right away.

“My family having a catering service was feeding me in one way, but I didn’t feel the totality of the art,” she said.

Nadia began her career as an online sketch comic online in 2001. After a few years, however, she began to miss cooking.

“I watched the Food Network at 2 in the morning, and it was like food porn,” she said.

Rather than taking the traditional, Rachel Ray route through the Food Network, Nadia began to build her cooking empire through the Internet, starting her own cooking show called “Bitchin’ Kitchen,” found on her website www.bitchinkitchen.tv and hosted on YouTube.

Television networks weren’t too sure about a humorous cooking show, but Nadia quickly got attention from a younger audience.

“The younger generation doesn’t want napkin folding or Martha Stewart,” she said.

The Bitchin Kitchen show is set in a kitchen like any ordinary cooking show, but Nadia adds eye catching color schemes, delicious and different dishes and intricate outfits to match the theme of the show. The recipes themselves are a mix of old family recipes with her own creative additives.

Also featured on the show are comedians Sugar Sammy, Derek Seguin and Steve Patterson, the always-topless assistant Bart Rochon and spice agent Ben Shaouli. The team is also featured heavily in her new cookbook, The Bitchin’ Kitchen Cookbook. “It’s a lot of fun working with [the all-male team],” she said. “It’s reverse sexism, which is something I take pride in,” says Nadia.

The Bitchin’ Kitchen Cookbook is now available online. The dishes and design of the book are designed to reflect the punk rock aesthetic celebrated on the show. The book is divided into chapters, each with separate themes such as a chapter dedicated to dishes one might enjoy on an “Italian Christmas Eve.” Dishes in this chapter include “Seafood Spaghetti” and “Panettone Bread Pudding.”

Other dishes found throughout the book include “One Night Stand Breakfast” and “Snag-a-lover Chicken Soup.”

“Snag-a-lover Chicken Soup is game over,” Nadia said. “Who’s going to leave someone who makes homemade chicken soup?”

There is also an entire chapter dedicated to “Anxiety Blasters,” or carbohydrate-heavy recipes designed to help relaxation.
Most of the dishes found in her cookbook are Italian-based.
“Experiences I’ve had being Italian is that everything had to do with food,” Nadia said.

Nadia writes all of the skits and jokes found in the book and on her show herself.

Visit www.bitchinkitchen.tv to purchase Nadia G’s The Bitchin’ Kitchen Cookbook. You can also view her cooking shows and order aprons and gloves from the Bitchin’ store. The site also features Nadia’s personal blogs, recipes and the “bitchorama,” where fans can “bitch” or vent to anyone willing to read it online.