You both have a nearly identical sentence in your respective cookbooks.

Oh, yeah.

Eddie, you write, just remember, I'm not your Lebanese grandmother.

So don't be surprised when you see fresh spins

on Middle Eastern classics.

Yes.

Cushboo, you wrote, The Grandma disclaimer.

Please remember that these are not your moms or grandma's recipes.

Thank you. So Kushbu first, why did you feel it was important to have that disclaimer?

I just want to get in front of all the haters, you know, before they could like really come for me.

Yeah, it's annoying, I don't know like you write down your

mom's recipes.

People come into the store all the time and they're like well that's not how my

grandmother makes it or this is not how I grew up with it.

I'm like, well, your grandmother's name is not outside.

Right.

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