Mario Batali’s New Web Series On Vice’s Munchies Channel Is Total Food Porn

Munchies subscribers, take note: Mario Batali is coming. The food channel run by digital media company Vice will be the home of Moltissimo, an upcoming web series that will star Batali as he hosts celebrity guests for a delicious home-cooked meal.

Each of Moltissimo’s seven 20-minute episodes will feature a pair of well-known diners and a collection of sumptuous recipes prepared in Vice’s kitchen. Batali, long known as one of America’s most talented purveyors of Italian cuisine, will source some of his ingredients from a garden located on the roof of Vice’s Brooklyn office. As seen in a trailer on the Munchies YouTube channel, those ingredients will turn into some dishes that can only be described as food porn. The guests, who will range from Rosie Perez to Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett, will undoubtedly walk away full and happy.

Many of the shows on Munchies fit into the edgy and rule-breaking brand Vice has created for itself over the past two decades, but Moltissimo will be a simple and straightforward cooking show in the vein of Batali’s Molto Mario TV show, which ran for eight years on Food Network. “I don’t want to travel around the world like Action Bronson,” Batali told The Hollywood Reporter, in reference to the Munchies web series F**k, That’s Delicious (on which he once made a guest appearance). “I don’t want to be the crazy Canadian guy. What people liked about my original show is that I cooked.”

The first episode of Moltissimo will arrive on October 4th, will additional installments following every other week. The recipes Batali cooks up will be available from the Munchies website.