I regard recipes as like a baseline for you to kind of like improvise off of.

So in the book, I try and provide lots of different options for like switching out proteins

for baking things in different ways, using different spices, like just mixing it up because

I think recipes are most valuable when you've

kind of made it your own.

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Okay.

Megan, before we start chatting with John today, let's dig in a little bit to this idea of

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