Listen to Grown, a new podcast from the Moth, for true stories that deal with the challenges and the joys of growing up.

Co-hosts Alisa Kazmi and Alfonzo Lacayo are on the cusp of adulthood and bringing you Moth's stories about first crushers, culture, identity, secrets, and more.

In each episode they'll dissect these stories, talk to the storytellers themselves, and feature on the street interviews and audio diaries from young voices.

Grown is a podcast that reminds us that no matter how old we are, we're never fully grown.

New episodes draw by weekly on Fridays. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Please welcome Anthony Purobsky.

Hi.

Welcome, my friend.

Thank you for having me.

So good to finally have you on the show as a fan of what you do on Queer Eye, as a fan of your cooking.

I've been lucky enough to taste your cooking, and then when I heard you were coming out with a cookbook, I was like, this is, it's a match made in heaven.

Are you ready to give away your secrets, though?

I am. It was a long time coming. It's still just seeing my face on a book and thinking how much time went into it and just knowing that it's there is like, you know what?

Everything is surreal right now, sitting here with you, looking at the book, just life has been surreal for the past year and a half.

I feel like you're in the business of making people's lives surreal, though. That's what you do on Queer.

That's what makes it such a fun show. You go around America, you just like getting people's lives.

One thing I enjoyed about what you do specifically on the show is you connect people with their food.

Something that I feel like has been a disconnect in America for especially for a long time where people just go like, oh, it's just food.

And you go like, no, food is more special than we think it is. Why?

I think it's so much more than that. I mean, it's how you say, I love you. It's how you say I'm sorry to someone who connects you to your roots where you came from.

It's how you meet new friends. Like when you came over, it's the medium for me for everything. It's my love language.

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