my backstory and how i became a creator

So Into That

Caro Chambers

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

I recently asked you for your questions, feedback, and topics you want to hear more about and you gave me a ton of great ideas.

One of the most common questions was a version of, “So what’s your deal? What’s your background, and what exactly do you do now?” Good question. How did I wind up as a recipe developer/cookbook author/whatever-I-decide-to-call-myself-that-day? You’re about to find out.

In this first solo episode, I share my “villain origin story” along with, of course, a few of the things I’m into right now.

I talk about where I come from, how I met my husband George, my crazy idea to start a catering company in San Diego, working in a test kitchen, and how that evolved into what I do today.

Next solo episode, I’ll get into the nitty gritty of what my day-to-day looks like as a full-time creator, including how I make money, what I love about my job, what I don’t love as much, and my goals for 2024 and beyond.

I also get into:

* Is a few days apart occasionally a good thing for married couples? (yes)

* The small but *wonderful* change I think you should make to your kitchen (possibly my favorite part of the renovation…?!)

* How I learned to write recipes that people can clearly read, understand, and cook from

* The story behind my “Just Married” cookbook

* How COVID lockdowns inspired What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking

* My weather-related So Out On and my IRL LOL of the week

* How to make an egg quesadilla with chili crisp

* My cookbook… coming soon!

Links:

* Kate Hutchison, the interior designer who designed our home

* Red Clay Chili Crisp (code CARO15 should work)

* Book Lovers by Emily Henry

* Food writer and cookbook author Melissa Clark

* My fave former boss, Ben Pote, has a restaurant in Greenwich, CT called Wildacre Rotisserie. Go visit him!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, and welcome back to So Into That, the podcast where I get to chat with really
0:06.0	awesome people about the things that we are really into right now.
0:10.4	This is a special episode because it is our first solo episode.
0:14.6	So this is something I plan on doing.
0:16.0	I don't know, maybe once a month or so.
0:18.6	I'll just come on by myself and chat about things that I'm up to right now.
0:23.0	I don't know, answer listener questions,
0:26.0	maybe have some listeners on,
0:29.0	and we can like chat about things that we're into right now.
0:32.0	I think that would be really fun. There are so many fun things that we're into right now. I think that would be really fun
0:33.8	things that we can do by just having me. I'm loving all of the guests and like
0:39.5	getting to meet all these cool new people get to chat more with people who I'm already
0:43.2	friends with who have been guests. It has been so so so much fun but I'm also
0:47.5	really excited about these solo episodes so we can just like chit chat just you and
0:51.4	me so that'll be fun.
0:53.0	I submitted a question box or I did like a question box thing on Instagram
0:58.0	last night asking you guys like what do you want to hear more of
1:01.0	when I do solo episodes what should we chat about and I got a great list a few of those things I'm actually going to have guests help me with so some of them were like marriage, parenting with your partner, like how do you get it done and not want to kill each other?
1:18.0	Sex after babies, like a lot of questions about different marriage related topics and I'm gonna have George on.
1:28.2	I think A I'd love to have like some marriage and like maybe this cool sex therapist I follow on
1:34.3	Instagram have them onto the podcast that would be a separate thing but I also want to
1:38.2	have George on to answer some of the specific questions because I think we are
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