Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves by Stephen Colbert

Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves Reviews

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  Mrs.

  I read good cookbooks from cover to cover like novels. This cookbook is so good and has so many fun stories that I won’t be the only one. I have so many new recipes to try or update. Already went shopping for three recipes to make tomorrow. Thank you Evie and Stephen for sharing your love for sharing food with all of us.
  Happy cooking everyone!
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  Joyce Driggers

  Funny and wonderful and delicious!! I loved it and the receipts or recipes and fantastic!
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  Linda

  I have gotten cookbooks through Libby which since I read through my Kindle app on my iPad automatically shows up on my GoodReads list because of the relationship between GoodReads and Amazon. I've always removed the cookbooks from showing up here because I didn't feel that I actually read the book - just looked at the pictures and saw which recipes were included.
  Since I'm a Stephen Colbert loyalist, I was aware that he and his wife had written a cookbook. Nice, but I had no plans to search it out. But, I was in my library every day for more than 2 months preparing for our library book sale. Last week, for two days, this cookbook was staring at me on the 'new' shelf.
  No one checked this out?!
  After two days of its forlorn gazes, I rescued it from the shelf and checked it out.
  Segue to a trip from central Ohio to western Michigan and I decided to give my usual cookbook treatment. But wait. There were "conversations" in the book between Colbert and his wife. I read them, many out loud so my husband could hear them. I read the entire book. Including the 'Thank you' section where (surprise! Suprise!) he thanked my friend Will Schwalbe.
  I also learned a lot about Charleston and its heavy reliance on seafood.
  For all this, I recommend this delight as a book to read.
  And, I intend to try a couple of the recipes when I get home, back to my kitchen.
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  Julia L.

  I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway.
  
  Stephen and Evie Colbert’s “Does This Taste Funny?” was charming and quirky and everything I love about them. They let their personalities shine through and gave an intimate glance into their Southern roots. Though I haven’t tried cooking any of the recipes yet, I have several bookmarked and can’t wait to try them!
• 
  Debora

  This Tastes Lovely
  
  The conversation is a delight and the recipes or "receipts" are inviting and easy to follow for most basic cooks. A very nice range of courses.
  
  I read it like a love story in two days because the writing style and lighthearted banter brought me right into the kitchen with Stephen and Evie.
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  Kathy

  One of the funniest books I've ever read is a...COOK BOOK??? This book is a total delight. The receipts (recipes) are reader-friendly. The side notes from Stephen and Evie Colbert made me laugh out loud.
  
  I would love to meet them and talk about some of the receipts. They just seem like such good people. oh, and yes! I'm going to be making some of those delicious entries ASAP.
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  Tamara

  delightful stories and looks like delicious recipes that i may or may not ever get around to making...
  too much meat for my vegan heart but the stories and photographs of their family were overwhelmingly joyful and made me forget about what uncooked shrimp looks like.
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  Melki

  STEPHEN : "Oh, no. Are you gonna tell the spoon story?'
  
  Colbert, comedian, talk show host, and bespectacled wise guy, also, it seems, likes to dabble in the culinary arts, frequently in the company of his lovely wife, Evie. (Let me just say here that if my husband and I attempted to share the kitchen, it would be a recipe for certain disaster, and possibly grounds for divorce. Or a murder investigation. Maybe both.) The witty repartee between these long-married spouses who can, of course, finish each others' sentences, is the real reason to settle in a comfy chair with a copy of this book. (Go ahead - have a cup of tea, or maybe one of the yummy-sounding cocktails featured in the book.)
  
  It's a delightful read, with plenty of photos, and tasty looking recipes. There are probably better Low Country cookbooks on the market, but they won't have pix of Stephen preparing a fancy-schmancy Beef Wellington, or a lesson in sour dough bread making from Colbert's youngest son. The comedian's many fans should enjoy perusing this one, and I'm sure anyone will be able to find a recipe to their liking. One they'd appreciate having their own spouse prepare, perhaps, while the better other half of that couple stays far, far from the kitchen where the really big knives are kept.
• 
  Pink

  Well written, funny and delicious!
  
  There aren't a TON of recipes (one can't expect a non-chef celebrity to write a compendium of their family's entire repetoire) however everything is laid out well, recipes are easy to follow and all begin with a chat from Stephen and Evie, and occasionally other contributors (Evie's mom, friends, etc).
  
  I'm about halfway through (yes, I'm one of "those:" I read cookbooks 😁) and loving every minute. Haven't tried any 'receipts' yet, but I'm confidant they'll come out perfectly.
  
  One caveat for those at high altitude (former Denverite now living in South Carolina. Went from 5,280 ft above sea level to actual sea level): there are a few baked items, so you'll have to adjust flour, fat, eggs, leavening, temperature and time so they'll come out right.
  
  Highly recommend.
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  Laura

  I read this mainly for a chance to get to know the Colbert family better, and the book did not disappoint! This is a warm glimpse inside the lives of a very funny man and his family. I love lowcountry food, and those recipes are woven throughout. Evie is very practical and a great foil to Steve. The backstories and photos are warm and these are people I would love to spend time with.
  
  The recipes are sound, but some are pretty involved. For example, I don't think I'll be making the beef wellington anytime soon. The shrimp paste and teriyaki pork tenderloin are amazing. The strongest chapter for me by far was the snacks, and like Steve and Evie that is often where our dinner starts and stops.
  
  This is a really fun book and I encourage you all to read it and cook at least one recipe from it.
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  Lisa

  3.5 rounded up
  
  Recipes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  
  But for the over the top schmaltziness and about 50 too many photos that had nothing to do with food, had to knock at least one star off the review. I have piles of celebrity cookbooks and haven't ever seen one with THIS many corny photos of said celebrities.
  
  Also? First flip through the book and I spotted at least a dozen typos in the intros to each recipe, which makes me wonder if there are typos in the actual recipes as well which would be problematic.
  
  But the recipes look fantastic
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  Karen Hayes

  Such a fun book, I loved each recipe's snippets. Due to not eating much seafood and never hosting dinner parties the odds of me ever cooking anything from this are low but I still enjoyed reading it, which I think is impressive.
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  Jessica

  Lots of seafood recipes which are not my fave but I digress. Well written and accessible to terrible cooks like myself.