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And I think I did one for you. I know you did. I love it. Because you always like to have a nice cookbook coming out, right? Keeping up the tradition, you've also released Simply Stephen. To go with the prettiest bestseller, cooking for Stephen. I'm a lucky man. I'm a lucky man. Okay, so what does Simply Ina mean, though? You know, Simply is different for each person. Some people want like a recipe with four ingredients, and some people want something you can make ahead. But I love when you can take a store-bought ingredient and just make it like mashed potatoes. So you can buy mashed potatoes in the grocery store and add roasted garlic, and you can add sour cream and seasoning. Nobody knows you haven't even peeled a potato. Wow. So that's a lot of the recipes I like out there. Well, you have a catchphrase that people just love, which is store-bought is fine. Right. Okay. Yes or no, if store-bought is fine on the following items. Are you ready to do a little lightning round here? I'm so ready. Okay, let's see how if these are Simply Ina. Can you read, though? What? Are you having trouble reading after that? Uh... You're talking about Billy Crystal. I'll read by echolocation. Here we go. That's the exact exact. Marinara sauce. Star-bought. Just fine as long as it's good marinara sauce. Okay. Sourdough bread. Sourdough bread is always good. You don't have to make it at home. Okay. Oh, totally don't have to make it. Chicken stock. Like collagen or something like that. If you have to. But only chicken stock. I have to have my own chicken stock at home? It's just great, but collagen is perfectly fine. Well, this one I think I know the answer to. Lime juice. Fresh lime juice only. You can't buy it anywhere. No, you can't do a little squeeze thing. No, that's s***. That's terrible. You're torturing yourself. Okay, this is interesting. Stuffing. So, you know what I use stuffing for? Actually, I have it in the book. I don't use stuffing for stuffing, but what I do is make bread pudding out of it. So, you know... So you like get the bag of stuffing. Bag of stuffing. It's already seasoned. It's already cubed. It's toasted. Yeah. All that's done. You put it in. And then you make it like a custard. Yeah. And you pour it over the stuffing, and you put in mushrooms and gruyere, put it in the oven. Nobody even knows there's a bag of stuffing in there. Wow. It's just a savory bread pudding. And I want to ask you something. Do you stuff your bird with your stuffing? No. Well, then it's not stuffing. It's dressing. What? So what's the difference between stuffing and dressing? Stuffing is stuffed. Did you just say stuff it to me? Yeah, I was going to say like, I believe in stuffing. The bird, dressing is just something on the side. That's it. Then you later dress your plate with it. You bake it in a little tray on the side, and it's not nearly as good as the stuffing, because you can't taste the salmonella. If it doesn't, if it doesn't drip off the bird right in there. And it's so much better on the side, because it's crispy and it's creamy. It's great. I agree with you on most things. OK. Store-bought birthday cake. I wouldn't get one at the 7-Eleven, but you can go to a really good bakery. In fact, there's a recipe in there for a cheesecake, where you go to the bakery and buy a cheesecake, and then you make a fresh raspberry sauce with fresh raspberries. Nobody even knows you didn't make the cheesecake. Oh, that's nice. Now that you're memoir, your lovely memoir, which came out last year, Be Ready When the Luck Happens, has been out in the world for a while, what responses from the book have surprised you the most? What amazes me is the number of people say, I wanted to take a chance to do something, and I was afraid. And I was sitting next to, and I read your book, and I thought, I'm just going to do it. Well, to tell the people why that resonates for them, what did you do? You had this great job at the White House. I did a job at the White House working on nuclear energy policy, doesn't everybody? And I just, I wanted to be in the food business, and so I bought a specialty food store in a place I'd never been before. And everybody goes, weren't you scared? Yeah, I was scared, but I did it anyway, and it was the making of my life. I would have just been sitting here with you. I would have just been here with you. Talking about nuclear energy policy? Exactly. We'll get into that later. Just another apology. So people have said, you know, that inspired me to go do these things. Yeah, I was sitting next to a woman the other day who said she bought a hotel in Lenox, Massachusetts, and everybody said, you're crazy. It's never going to work. And while they were renovating, she read the book and thought, I'm going to do it anyway. And it's wildly successful. That's lovely. Wonderful. Now, you are known, no surprise. You are known as the host with the most, and I know this because I've been lucky enough to attend some of your dinner parties. I love when you do your dinner parties. What's changed about the way you throw a party over the years? You know, one of the things I started doing, you know this, is it used to be people would come and have orders and drinks in the living room, then we'd sit down at the table and we'd have dinner, and everybody would kind of wait for the party to be over. But I've started having a third part where we go into the library, we have a little sweet dessert wine, maybe a little subterne, some chocolates. That's when the party really happens. That's when everybody kind of, they relax into the sofa and chairs. Yes, yes. Do we have something that we might? At the danger of actually mixing our... I was going to say, Steven has a... And I have you to thank. We provided the old fashions, but you provided the Shepard de Cam. The last time you were there, I saw you looking at the bottle, I thought, oh, I know exactly what he likes. Oh, yes, yes. Just a little. Oh, yeah, just a little. This is the best. You can just rub this on my gums. It's just so fantastic. Isn't it incredible? That is great. And then a little... And this is older than the one you had. A little chocolate? And salted camels from France. Fantastic. I don't even care if they turn the cameras off. Let's just... Let's do this. Well, we have a little wine and chocolate. I have a proposal. Yes, ma'am. If you have some extra time coming up, I think you and I should do a cooking show together. Done. Come on, my daddy. Seriously. Absolutely. But then we would only cook with two ingredients. Only two ingredients? Bourbon. Every recipe would either have bourbon or butter in it. Oh, wow. How's that? Oh, bourbon-soaked butter sounds good. Okay, can we... Can you answer a couple of party etiquette questions while we enjoy the salted cam? Okay, what is the appropriate time to arrive at dinner party? 15 minutes after the appointed time. If you're invited for seven, show up at 7.15. So the hostess isn't in the shower. Exactly. What should a guest bring to a dinner party? You know, the two things I never bring are something that they can serve at the dinner party or flowers without a vase. Because you're running around trying to figure out what am I going to do with these flowers and what am I going to do with this Jell-O-Mole that somebody just brought. So I always bring... Stick the flowers in it is what I always bring. That's a good option. I always bring something that they can have for breakfast the next day, like coffee and granola, maybe some croissant. So they don't feel like they have to deal with it right now. Done. What's the perfect size for a dinner party? Well, you know, I like six people around a small round table. And that's when everybody really has a good time. And this is a very important one because there's a lot of polite tension toward the end of a meal. Should guests offer to clean up? They should offer, but you should never let them. I like people to help. Then I promise the next time I'm there, I will offer. You don't have to offer. And you're never allowed to do it. Thank you. Be ready when the luck happens. It's available now in paperback. And get ready for this very soon. Simply Aina. Aina Garten, everybody.
