Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me, Allison Rosen. Welcome to another episode of Allison Rosen is your new best friend.

I'm sitting here with Cookbook author and host of Potluck, did I get that right? Yeah.

Of Potluck and someone with whom I share a name, Ali Rosen. Hello and welcome. Thank you for having me.

You're a New Yorker, but not originally. You're originally from my South Carolina, right?

Yeah, I'm from Charleston and my husband is from New York so he says I can't really claim to be a New Yorker but I've been there 10 years so this is a matter of great debate.

And also interestingly, I did not know this until a little while ago. Your husband is named Daniel.

I knew that my husband was named Daniel. Yeah, I hope you knew that. Yeah, we are both, we are both, you know, Ali, Allison, Rosen's with Daniel, Husbands and small, young boys.

It's weird. We're living parallel lives. What's the opposite? I know, but we don't have the same kid's name, right? No, no, my son is guy.

Guy, yeah. Okay. Mine's not. So in that way, that, that is how we'll know who's who.

So I will know which Ali Rosen you're getting. But and this question is going to determine the direction and the rest of this interview is going to go.

Are you an Allison? No, I'm an Alexandra. Okay, that's what I was afraid of. Boom. And now everything's ruined.

I had, I just had a spidey sense that I would ruin your whole show. Yeah. Yeah.

So you're an Alexandra. Yeah. How has that impacted your life? You know, it's very difficult because when your name is Ali, everyone assumes that your name is Allison.

So I've been called Allison Rosen my whole life and everyone thinks that I am. And actually my aunt is an Allison who was never called Ali and then she got remarried to a man who decided to start calling her Ali.

And it's really like it messed with my entire internal core because you know, it was me. Yeah, like, you know, Allison is an Ali. I am. So it's, you know, yeah, Alexandra, it makes no sense.

But my mom really liked Ali McGraw. My parents really liked that. So I have, wait, is she an Alexandra? No, she's an Allison.

There are no Alexander. No, it doesn't make any sense. My parents just like liked the name Alexandra. And then they also liked Ali McGraw. It doesn't make any sense.

I think, I think part, apparently my mom knew someone named Allison and she really liked her. And my dad had had a similar positive Allison association. And they both really liked Ali McGraw.

I think that's why I'm Allison, A.O.I. Right. Yeah, I think a lot of women of our generation are named and actually like, you know, Ali McGraw, my mom saw Ali McGraw in Charleston at something. I don't know. She sells like scarves or something now. And my mom was like, you know, I went up to her. And I said that, you know, I named my daughter after her. And she just like didn't give a shit. So it was very disappointing. So she wouldn't care that either of us were named after her.

The second question, don't let me down, Alexandra. Are you rose in by marriage or by birth? Oh, by birth. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. No, actually, I legally, this is like my poor husband. My husband's last name is Gouravitch, which, you know, is fine.

I feel like that's kind of quenching because my husband's last name is quants. I feel like Gouravitch and quants like on in terms of tone. It's similar. Right. You don't want to change your name to that.

I legally, you know, I have this like, you know, multiple identity issue of I legally changed my name so that my son and I would have the same name.

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