Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee-Colbert announce their upcoming cookbook.Photo:Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
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Stephen Colbertis moving from late-night television to your kitchen shelf.
On Wednesday’s episode ofThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert,the comedian revealed that he and his wife,Evelyn McGee-Colbert, will be releasing a cookbook this fall.
Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves, out Sept. 17, took two years to create and is “made with love — and an enormous amount of butter,” saidThe Daily Showalum in a statement.
Evelyn “Evie” came out for a special Valentine’s Day segment on her husband’s show to break the big news. “We have a gift for each other tonight. Evie and I have written a cookbook,” Colbert said.
His wife then joked: “I think this cookbook should be an example of all couples for hope because I can’t even chop celery without you telling me I doing it wrong."
“It was an act of love and she made it ugly!” the late-night host joked as they both expressed their excitement.
On top of getting a taste for what the family likes to eat, readers will also get an inside look into the pair’s 30-year marriage and family dynamics with “informal at-home pictures.”
The couple first met at a showing of a musical in South Carolina and Colbert later revealed thathe knew Evie was the oneimmediately, telling himself, “Her. That’s your wife. You’re going to marry her.”
After seeing each other at the event, Evie and Colbert realized they had grown up together, he told his audience. That night, they “talked for two hours,” Colbert said during a 2016 episode of his show, “and I was completely taken.”
“I thought, ‘She’s just being nice to me,'” Colbert admitted. “‘She’s too beautiful, she’s too perfect.'”
The late night host turned away for a minute while Evie was talking to someone else at the event, and was thrilled to find that “she was still there when I turned around,” he told the audience. They wed in October 1993, before the talk show host became a household name.
While raising their three children — Madeleine, Peter and John — Colbert and Evie have also collaborated on a production company,Spartina Productions. Plus, in recent years, Evie has worked onThe Late Show.When receiving an Emmy in 2021, Colbert said thatEvie was his “rock"and a “huge part” of creating his show during Covid.
Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loveswill publish on Sept. 17.
source: people.com
