{"id":1978843,"date":"2025-08-25T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1978843"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:22:57","slug":"cooking-for-seamus-celebrities-and-chefs-clamour-to-cook-for-a-disabled-bull-in-this-irresistible-show-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cooking-for-seamus-celebrities-and-chefs-clamour-to-cook-for-a-disabled-bull-in-this-irresistible-show-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking for Seamus: celebrities and chefs clamour to cook for a disabled bull in this irresistible show | YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:700\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">T<\/span>he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/youtube\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">YouTube<\/a> comedy docu-series Cooking for Seamus has an irresistible premise: what if a huge disabled bull named Seamus was a food critic, on a cooking show that catered entirely to his sensibilities and tastes? The result is a show that\u2019s not only eccentric and funny, but an utterly delightful meditation on the importance of food and care and community, featuring a very hungry animal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Seamus is a disabled bull who lives with palsy; when he was born he was considered too sick to live, but was saved by an animal rescuer, his \u201cmum\u201d BJ, who also pops up through the show. For months Seamus couldn\u2019t even stand up or lift his head to feed, and as a result, quickly became enamoured with \u201chuman\u201d food \u2013 and in large amounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cAll the farmers around here were laughing and taking bets on how long I can keep him alive,\u201d recalls BJ.<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"youtube-embed\" class=\"dcr-13aa88h\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MScq1LSUfLY?wmode=opaque&amp;feature=oembed\" title=\"Disabled Rescue Bull Host of Own Cooking Show | Cooking for Seamus\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Cooking for Seamus was created by a laconic folk musician named Archer who now cares for Seamus and takes feeding him seriously. The pair live in a leaky caravan out near Castlemaine in Victoria, on a creek surrounded by other rescued animals, including Seamus\u2019s best friend, a goat named Lillian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI believe he has one of the most advanced palates in the history of the world,\u201d Archer says, as part of the explanation of why he\u2019s created an entire cooking show for his animal friend. Seamus, via Archer, rates his meals out of 10; after Seamus eats his meal, licking his chops with his ears flicking, Archer will watch him intently, trying to gauge whether the meal was a hit for its discerning critic. \u201cI reckon he\u2019s in the 9s, maybe a 9.2\u201d Archer decides, after Seamus chows down a bucket of pumpkin penne pasta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Each episode, ranging between five and 20 digestible minutes, typically centres on a celebrity chef coming to cook a meal for Seamus \u2013 like the American musician Martha Spencer, who not only cooks a huge helping of Appalachian cornbread and pinto beans for Seamus, but spends much of the episode singing songs to an audience of rescue animals. Other guests include comedian and YouTube chef <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/apr\/29\/nats-what-i-reckon-interview-profile-lung-illness\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Nats What I Reckon<\/a>, whose laid-back approach to cooking is a spiritual match to the docuseries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWhat do you think of food critics?\u201d asks Archer. \u201cNot much,\u201d drawls Nat.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">YouTube chef, comedian and mental health advocate Nathan Bartolo of Nat\u2019s What I Reckon cooks pasta for Seamus.<\/span> Photograph: Matthew Walker<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Probably my favourite guest was the legendary performer Kamahl, who explains that he doesn\u2019t really like cooking and instead feeds Seamus 27 bananas while wearing a golden cape and reciting counter-culture poetry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If it sounds funny, it\u2019s meant to \u2013 everyone involved has a good understanding of the humour of the entire situation. There\u2019s a recurring shot of Seamus being called for dinner and gently rolling down the hill in excitement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But it\u2019s also a love letter to a certain kind of quiet living; not a huge amount happens in most episodes apart from some nice conversations, some beautiful folk songs and a bull eating mass amounts of human food, which really bucks the trend of YouTube\u2019s more frenetic and gross offerings. It\u2019s also a beautiful snapshot of how rewarding it is to care for a rescued animal and to devote your life to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Obviously Cooking for Seamus bears little resemblance to other cooking shows on TV \u2013 for one thing, it\u2019s doubtful that anyone would be watching this hoping to learn how to cook the recipes that Seamus is eating, unless they also have a bull to cook for or perhaps a gaggle of children happy to eat out of a trough. It\u2019s not that the food looks bad (in fact, it often looks amazing) but it\u2019s not delivered in a step-by-step fashion designed to instruct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Instead, Cooking for Seamus explores the more important side of cooking. The love that Archer, BJ and everyone on the show has for Seamus is palpable. As humorous as the idea of him being a \u201cfood critic\u201d is, we often make food for those we love, to show them that we love them. And Seamus returns this love, too; my favourite shots are where he gratefully rests his giant head against Archer, a move immediately recognisable to me with my own rescue animal, a traumatised ex-racing greyhound named Basil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It is a nice reminder that good food doesn\u2019t require frills or Michelin stars \u2013 just enough care to show our love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.theguardian.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The YouTube comedy docu-series Cooking for Seamus has an irresistible premise: what if a huge disabled bull named Seamus was a food critic, on a cooking show that catered entirely to his sensibilities and tastes? 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