Cookbooks We Love
September 26, 2024
Stephen Colbert Shares His Favorite Family Recipes
Late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert and his wife, Evie, have released their first cookbook, Does This Taste Funny? Recipes Our Family Loves. With nods to the Southern dishes they loved as kids in Charleston, S.C., and meals cooked together during Covid lockdowns, the book features recipes such as Popovers (eaten on family vacations in Maine), Stephen’s Salt-And-Pepper Wings, nodding to NYC restaurant Poulette, and classic Southern dessert Chess Pie, inspired by Evie’s grandmother’s 100-year-old recipe.
Scroll down for three delicious Colbert family recipes!
Popovers
“Popovers are puffy, warm, and crisp on the outside, and moist inside. They are a good for any meal, because pretty much anything is good on them—butter, jam, honey, maple syrup, gravy, pan juices from roast chicken or beef . . . go nuts.” – Stephen Colbert
Get Stephen Colbert’s recipe for Popovers here.
Salt-and-Pepper Wings
“These are my attempt to re-create the fantastic salt-and-pepper wings from a local NYC kitchen called La Poulette. I order them when I need something to pick up my spirits. They are very simple to make, and as my version is baked, not fried, I tell myself they are healthy.” – Stephen Colbert
Get Stephen Colbert’s Wings recipe here.
Chess Pie
“This is my grandmother McGee’s recipe and one of the ones that my mom and I discovered when we found my grandmother’s long-lost recipe box. Chess pie is a classic Southern pie and this receipt is probably well over a hundred years old, but it certainly holds up.” – Evie McGee Colbert
Get the recipe for Chess Pie here.
Recipes from Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves by Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert. (c) 2024 by the authors and reprinted with permission of Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC