2 min read- Gayle King opens up about the extreme lengths she went to for a burger while visiting Oprah during a blackout.
- King dragged her friend to four or five different places, trying to get her hands on one.
- Her favorite burgers? La Tub in Miami, ABC Kitchen in New York, Black Tap, and Shake Shack.
Gayle King is a woman of strength, discipline, and routine. She sets her first alarm for 3:24 each morning, takes a full bath, and still makes it to the office by 5 a.m. without a drop of coffee (ever). She never drinks alcohol, and if you tell her she can’t have the cheeseburger she’s been dreaming about all day, she finds a way.
“I was visiting Oprah in Telluride, Colorado. The electricity went out in the whole town,” King tells Delish Editorial Director Joanna Saltz on the latest episode of SNACKS!. “Now we had been on a diet, and I had been thinking all day about the burger I was gonna have at the end of the day. I was gonna go to Fuddruckers, which is very good.”
The generator wasn’t working, and their only option at the house was cold sandwiches, but that didn’t stop King. “I’d been thinking about this frigging burger all day,” she says. “We went to three different places. Everything was closed.”
Finally, the two friends resorted to the grocery store and bought the ingredients and tools for Oprah’s chef to whip up the burger at home. “We went to four or five different places and [Oprah] said, ‘Gayle, this is not normal. You do realize that, don’t you?’”
“I go, ‘Why is it not normal? I’ve been thinking about it all day…food gives me a lot of joy.”
It’s not the only time King takes her burger seriously. It’s another element of her life she’s consistent about. “I do love a cheeseburger. I think a cheeseburger done well is a very good thing,” she says, before adding that she likes her’s with “Cheddar and pepper jack together.”
Her top five spots for one (aside from Oprah’s kitchen or Fuddruckers?): La Tub in Miami, ABC Kitchen in New York, Black Tap, and Shake Shack—which she routinely orders with a crinkle-cut fry and caramel shake.
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