Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach bring Ayo the Bear back into view in a new NYT Cooking video, this time over vegetarian borscht and Massachusetts talk. The Emmy-winning The Bear stars use the kitchen to extend the show’s reach just after its final season wrapped up last month.
NYT Cooking and Massachusetts
The video centers on a batch of vegetarian borscht built from a recipe from Moss-Bachrach’s mother-in-law. That gives the segment more than a celebrity-cooking hook: it is a recipe-driven piece with a family source, which keeps it closer to home cooking than to a publicity demo.
Edebiri, who hails from Dorchester, and Moss-Bachrach, who grew up in Amherst, quickly turn the conversation toward Massachusetts identity. “You and me are both from Massachusetts. We’re used to a certain kind of suffering,” Edebiri says. She adds, “It becomes us.” Moss-Bachrach answers, “Yeah, couple townies,” and Edebiri closes the exchange with, “Just a couple townies, you and I.”
Eastern Massachusetts movies
From there, the talk moves into Massachusetts-set films, including Manchester by the Sea, The Town, Gone Baby Gone and The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Moss-Bachrach calls them “very Eastern Massachusetts movies,” while also bringing up Dead Poets Society as part of the New England mix. Edebiri jumps in with The Holdovers and then misses the title of Paul Newman’s The Verdict, a small stumble that makes the exchange feel offhand rather than staged.
That mix of cooking and regional banter matters because The Bear has already ended its final season, yet its stars are still being paired in new media that keeps the show’s audience engaged between screen projects. Edebiri recently made her Broadway debut in Proof opposite Don Cheadle, and Moss-Bachrach appeared on Broadway alongside Jon Bernthal in Dog Day Afternoon, so the video also functions as a bridge between their TV identity and everything they are doing around it.
Clarissa and Ally, Avengers: Doomsday
The immediate business for viewers is simple: the new video gives fans of The Bear a fresh appearance from Edebiri and Moss-Bachrach now, not months from now. Edebiri is set to star in Clarissa and Ally, and Moss-Bachrach will appear later this year in Avengers: Doomsday as the Thing, with Chris Evans also in that film.
For anyone tracking where these two go after The Bear, this is the useful takeaway. The kitchen video is not a detour from their careers; it is part of how their screen profile stays active while the next round of projects moves into view.
