Open Wide A Cookbook for Friends: Fun and Easy Recipes for Food Freaks

Benny's most recent project is his first cookbook, Open Wide. You can get it right now. We'll be diving into that as well.

I'm obsessed with all that one of my friends uh the person who I wrote my book with her name is Jess she has like a she's predominantly like a plant based chef and she worked for Martha Stewart for years and and she's incredible and I uh it's funny like my books are always crazy for I eat very healthy unless I'm being like a naughty boy

I was like okay you know some people they might not know what to do like you're nervous in the kitchen this book is gonna make it so like sure fire away you want something easy that looks good great you want to have a dinner party like do you know what type of wine to serve I don't know do you want to smoke weed with your people does weed make you anxious who knows is it midnight and you want everyone to leave because you got to wake up at 5 30 the next day but you still want them to love you I'm going to teach you how to kick them out you know and it's just like I love that yeah it's that whole thing and it's just like that moment of just like getting a bunch of people together and I love getting the people together that don't necessarily go together and it's like someone is like a musician and they're sitting next to a man who wrote a book and I mean one time we were at my house and I remember I was uh my mother was sitting here and SZA was sitting here and a man on the other side actually makes rocket chips that go to space and to me it was just so cool to see them all talking and not caring about you know what was going on and there was no egos and there was everyone's just having a good time and food is like the best social lubricant in the world because it's like you can immediately talk about something you're like oh you like food it's just like the automatic conversation starter yeah yeah next time you come over we're gonna have to do food for sure because yeah that's it's a big love language for my wife she loves she was so that's her love language I want to cook with her yeah you guys would have you guys would have a blast she loves cooking creating recipes and also same as you create community and it's actually funny to say that I'm trying to think of a book that you just reminded me of that was based on a restaurant that did that and they recently converted it became 11 Madison Park in New York and it was a restaurant that tried to give that level of care that's so cool that you feel in a home yeah and so open wide your book I love I love that it's not just a cookbook I love that it's no it's all about how to build community and it's all of that because I think that's what people miss out on right we think that hosting is about all the fancy stuff and it's like it isn't it's

I want everyone to know open wide is available right now so make sure you go grab it we'll put the link in the caption in the comments and wherever you're viewing of course if you don't follow Benny on social media already please go and follow him across platforms and Benny thank you so much for showing up for on purpose today is so grateful and deeply appreciate man thank you man yeah thank you