When Chabad Rabbi Hanoch Hecht announced that he would compete in an upcoming Chopped episode, his congregation thought it was a joke.
And yet Hecht, who lives in the town of Rhinebeck in the Hudson Valley, will face off for the title of best chef against a priest, a pastor and a nun-in-training in a June 21 Chopped episode.
“Everybody thought that it was a joke that the rabbi was making on the Saturday sermon,” said Hecht. “They really didn’t think it was coming true.”
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