Does This Taste Funny?

Recipes Our Family Loves

By Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee Colbert
cover of stephen and evie's new cookbook, with evie pouring sauce all over stephen's hands
Title: Does This Taste Funny?
Author: Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee Colbert
ISBN: 9781250859990
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ISBN: 9781250859990
cover of stephen and evie's new cookbook, with evie pouring sauce all over stephen's hands

Stephen and Evie Colbert invite you to pull up a chair as they share their favorite recipes from family and friends and offer a glimpse of food and fun in their South Carolina home.

“Hopefully reading this book and cooking these recipes will feel like hanging out with us at home. We basically live in the kitchen anyway.” —Evie and Stephen Colbert

As Evie and Stephen explain it, Does This Taste Funny? had its beginnings in the Covid lockdown. “We were all stuck together and couldn’t go out, so we cooked. We had all three kids back under one roof for the first time in a long time, and we had dinner each night as a family. Cooking together became a major source of entertainment.”

Now, the Colberts invite us into their kitchen and around their dining room table. Sharing Stephen and Evie’s favorite recipes, as well as those of their family and friends, this book offers everything from Party Food (called “party food” because “appetizers” implies something to follow when we all know that, often, this is the only course), to Seafood, to Poultry and Meat (“Evie and I have different relationships to meat. I like it. Evie can take it or leave it, and mostly she leaves it.”), to Desserts (“This is one of the largest sections of the book. Evie always reminds me that desserts are a great way to postpone clearing up.”), to Drinks (“I love cocktail hour. It feels like a reward for having gone so long without a cocktail”), all tied together with playful dialogue between Stephen and Evie and gorgeous shots of their food, family, and home.

ISBN: 9781250380715
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Stephen and Evie Colbert invite you to pull up a chair as they share their favorite recipes from family and friends and offer a glimpse of food and fun in their South Carolina home.

“Hopefully reading this book and cooking these recipes will feel like hanging out with us at home. We basically live in the kitchen anyway.” —Evie and Stephen Colbert

As Evie and Stephen explain it, Does This Taste Funny? had its beginnings in the Covid lockdown. “We were all stuck together and couldn’t go out, so we cooked. We had all three kids back under one roof for the first time in a long time, and we had dinner each night as a family. Cooking together became a major source of entertainment.”

Now, the Colberts invite us into their kitchen and around their dining room table. Sharing Stephen and Evie’s favorite recipes, as well as those of their family and friends, this book offers everything from Party Food (called “party food” because “appetizers” implies something to follow when we all know that, often, this is the only course), to Seafood, to Poultry and Meat (“Evie and I have different relationships to meat. I like it. Evie can take it or leave it, and mostly she leaves it.”), to Desserts (“This is one of the largest sections of the book. Evie always reminds me that desserts are a great way to postpone clearing up.”), to Drinks (“I love cocktail hour. It feels like a reward for having gone so long without a cocktail”), all tied together with playful dialogue between Stephen and Evie and gorgeous shots of their food, family, and home.

Photo of Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert
Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee both grew up in Charleston, South Carolina but somehow didn’t meet until their mid-twenties and decided to get married and have a family.

They are the founders of Spartina Industries, a production company with a first-look deal at CBS Studios. Spartina has produced a number of projects including Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself on Hulu, and most recently debuted After Midnight, starring Taylor Tomlinson, on CBS. Spartina is also currently developing several projects, most notably a series adaptation of The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny.

Praise for Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee Colbert

“A bighearted collection of family recipes…Fans will eat this up.”

Publishers Weekly

"This joyful cookbook filled with delicious Southern family recipes and gorgeous photographs is also the story of two wonderful people who deeply love and admire each other.  You’ll love this book!"

Ina Garten
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