Exclusive | Yes, Chef! star dishes on blood-type cooking for Ryan Seacrest, and her famous Jennifer client

Celebrity kitchens can be really cool.Private NYC chef Julia Chebotar dished on cooking for the rich and famous — and the most “life-changing” amenity she’s seen in an A-lister’s home.“Multiple ice machines with different shapes,” she told The Post this week.“So you open one little one and they’re shaped like perfect circles.You open another little one and it’s like the shaved ice cubes.
And they’re all spaced out throughout the house.I’m like, ‘This is the dream!'”Chebotar, 36, one of 12 competing on NBC’s new series “Yes, Chef!,” which premieres on April 28, was employed by Ryan Seacrest — but she never used the swanky appliances in his actual kitchen since she never cooked in it.
“Ryan Seacrest had an entire different house for me to cook in, where someone would come and pick up the food and deliver it to him.A house on his property, but it wasn’t where he stayed.”She also had to follow the “American Idol” host’s strict diet.
“That was really interesting because he ate according to his blood type.So I had to cook his food for his blood type, the girlfriend’s food for her blood type,” she said of the Blood Type Diet trend, which started in the ’90s.“For example, someone with Type O might thrive on high-protein meats with lean meats and vegetables, while a Type A might do better with a more plant-forward menu … The vitamins that I had to pack for him daily in his little lunchbox was insane.
The things that he eats to look that good … it makes a difference.” Chebotar even has to sign NDAs in order to work for some notable names, like a certain famous Jennifer.“The assistant was like, ‘Jennifer is really excited to meet you.’ And in my head, I was like, ‘I’m going to meet J.Lo.’ And it ended up being Jennifer Lawrence, which is still cool, but I was ready for J.Lo.”Another of her celeb clients is actress Jenny Mollen, wife of “American Pie” star Jason Biggs, who lives in the West V...