Never underestimate a badass basic bitch.

I'm Courtney.

I'm done fitting into what everybody else needs me to fit into.

And I'm Brianna.

You are the only one that can make this change.

We're here to bring you the badass basic bitch podcast.

We're going to share the untold stories and dive deep into the shit nobody talks about.

Buckle up, we're totally unfiltered, about to get very sassy and inviting you into some of our most intimate conversations.

Welcome to the Baddy B Club.

Everyone was like, you're not going to succeed, you're crazy, like, who does that, who waste their education to do that?

And so for me, I always told them like, no, I'm going to be like one of these like 1% successful people, but then it happens.

And in a way, I think success happens faster than you think and also slower than you think. Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch. On today's show, we have with us, Tara

Katar, who is a two-time chopped winner, future chopped judge, and author of a cookbook, Le Bonn,

which I'm sure I butchered that. So Tara, what is the name? She's smiling. She's like, yeah. She's smiling. She's like, you totally did. If it was Spanish, I would have nailed it. But clearly French, I am not there. So how do I pronounce the name of your book? And tell us a little bit about it and yourself. Hi. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited. So my book is called Liban.

So it's Lebanon and French, Liban.

And it's a history of cuisine familial,

of a partage.

So basically a story of family cooking, of love and of like sharing.

Because if you've ever been to a Lebanese restaurant,

you know that you share everything, you know, it's very like a convivial way of sharing a meal. And so, yeah, it's my family's recipes. It's basically the legacy of both my grandmas in a book. I love that. I need to get this for Liz. So if you guys have been following me for a while, then you know, and Tara and I were

actually talking about this before we started the podcast, but I'm 75% Lebanese. My mom's half. My dad is full. And I grew up eating so much Lebanese food. I have vivid memories. My mom mostly cooking at all. But occasionally we would try to go to a restaurant and my brother would just be terrified because there would always be a belly dancer or someone coming up to him and he's like seven just like scouring in the corner.

But I love Lebanese food. So I need to find your book. Where is it going to be available?

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