Stephen Colbert is the sharp and witty host of The Late Show,

who's been married to his wife Evie McGee Colbert for more than 30 years.

The two have partnered up in the kitchen for a new cookbook called,

Does This Taste Funny?

In it, they share their favorite family recipes and funniest moments cooking together.

The couples share how the idea for this book began during the COVID lockdown.

With all three of their grown children back under their roof,

cooking together became a major source of entertainment.

Writing this book transported them back to moments in time with their families and with each other. The couple even share the

story of one of their very first experiences cooking together, which led to a disagreement over a

metal spoon. The South Carolina natives open up about their famous dinner parties and why

humor has been a key ingredient in their long marriage. I'm Jenna Bush-Hager. Welcome to my

podcast, Open Book, with Jenna. Thank you guys for being here, Evie.

Thank you, Jennifer, for having us.

Thank you.

You have a great book.

Does this taste funny?

I love two things most in the world, well, three, and this does not include my three children, but laughter and food. How do you feel like the two of those intersect? Well, it's good to laugh in the kitchen. Just to be ready for anything to go wrong, because you could burn yourself or you could cut yourself or you just ruin the meal. So I like to start the bar. I think the bar is my appetizer. Yeah. It's like,

well, because it kind of lessened the pressure, right? Right. Right. I actually did and I wasn't

thinking I was going to talk about this. But yeah, do you see that some situation? That's a pretty big.

Have you all ever used a mandolin? Yes. Yes. They're very dangerous. Oh, that must have hurt. I cut myself. It was the first year I was married. It was the day before Thanksgiving. My husband said, be careful. This is really sharp. And he hadn't even reached five feet away when I heard a scream. I had to wear a cast. A cast? A cast? A cast to the emergency room? A trip to the emergency room. And then I was a teacher in Baltimore and he had to do my hair the next day. Oh my gosh. Shows you what marriage is about. That's sweet, though. Wow. I know. How did Thanksgiving dinner turn out, though? Luckily, I didn't have to cook. This was the old in times because the hand, so it was fine. You guys had a little bit of a first cooking experience with a metal spoon. Yeah. You wrote this down in the book, so I'm sorry. We wrote it down and did not include it. We said that there is a spoon story, but I always come off the bad in the spoon story. I do, though. I come off as... Why don't you tell them your version of the spoon story? In the time that we've been talking about this over the past few weeks, I've realized I have to defend myself. So when I grew up, my family always had... No one's attacking you. Yes, you are. you're tag me. Anyway, my family always had a pot of homney on this stove because we had hominy all the time.

Grits to everybody else. Charlestonia is called home. And, you know, we just had plain old pots, no fancy non-stick situation. And I don't think my mother owned a wooden spoon, so it was all metal. Yeah. I was just used to metal spoons. we got married and we're living in our tiny apartment in Chicago with the kitchen the size of a posted stamp, I was stirring a nonstick skillet with a metal spoon.

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