Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was outside City Hall Friday afternoon taking direction from a Food Network film crew.
But no one will say exactly what the lame duck Democrat was filming.
A crew member said the four-person team was from "the Food Network" when asked by a reporter. But the mayor said nothing when asked what she was filming. Deputy spokeswoman Allison Parker-Abromitis accompanied the mayor outside but said they could not comment.
Spokesman Anthony McCarthy said the same thing, but added that the filming was related to mayor's "official duties."
A search of Food Network casting calls do not indicate that any of its shows have been recruiting mayors for future episodes. Only one, a competition show called Chopped, indicated that it was looking for "civil servants" for one of the many possible "specials" it is "cooking up," according to its website, choppedcasting.com.
A representative from the Food Network could not be reached for comment.
When one of the crew members said "action" the mayor strode from City Hall's front door toward the camera positioned just south of the entrance. Rawlings-Blake — dressed in black pants, heels and a pink sweater — stopped directly in front of the lens and crossed her arms, looking mayoral.
She then walked back toward the entrance and put on a white apron that read "Baltimore Girl." She ascended the left set of steps that flank City Hall's entrance for a shot of her surrounded by the majesty of the building's French Renaissance Revival style.
If it's a mayor vs. mayor episode, perhaps we will see Rawlings-Blake steaming crabs and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney frying up a cheesesteak.