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ONE OF YOU IS WINNING A TRIP TO CARMEL!!!! I promise I’ll stop yapping about pre-orders soon, because the book will BE IN YOUR HANDS IN LESS THAN A MONTH! But until pub day on August 13th, it’s pre-order city, baby. And to show you just how SERIOUSLY, UNENDINGLY GRATEFUL I am to all of you for pre-ordering, I’ve been working really hard on a truly massive giveaway… CARO’S PERFECT WEEKEND IN CARMEL GIVEAWAY!!!!! **TWO NIGHT STAY AT CARMEL VALLEY RANCH ** **$100 GIFT CARD TO STATIONAERY ** **A PIC...
Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/author-annabel-monaghan-on-getting It’s summertime, and that means it’s Annabel Monaghan time! Annabel’s one of my favorite authors, and lucky for us she cranks out a delightful new book seemingly every June. This year is no different, so today we talk about Summer Romance and a whole lot more: from kids and smartphones (she’s also mom of 3 boys/young men), to sneaking away from her family to write her first adu...
Get this week's full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/the-idea-of-you-author-robinne-lee The Idea of You was a book that changed the way I read. I absolutely loved it. I recommend it all the time. And it was my gateway drug into the romance genre… although, as its author Robinne Lee shares in this episode, she never intended to write a romance novel (nor does she consider it to be one). The Idea of You really is about much more than meets the eye. As Robinne wrote ...
Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rich-af-with-vivian-tu Vivian Tu ( Your Rich BFF ) is here, and she’s here to make us smarter about personal finance like we’re out for margaritas. No condescension. No jargon. Just tons of actionable tips, no matter your income or family situation. You might know Vivian from Instagram , where her personal finance videos go viral on the reg. But not everything can fit into a 60-second clip… so she’s w...
Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/so-into-that-ask-me-anything If you follow me on Instagram, you know I do the occasional “question box” style Ask Me Anything there. Well, today I’m bringing that format to the pod – and you sent in some juicy ones. This Q&A gets into: • Workout motivation with young kids • How do I deal with “mom guilt” as a working mom? • Toddler tantrums • Deciding whether to have another child?! • Will we stay in Califor...
Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/angela-santomero-the-creator-of-blues As the creator of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood on PBS, Angela Santomero may be the person most responsible for getting my family through the pandemic with our sanity intact. The show was (and still is) a lifesaver in moments when George or I needed a break from hands-on parenting, and its musical life lessons have become part of our toddlers’ lexicon. Today, I get the chance ...
Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/carly-duguid-on-building-the-brand Carly Phillips Duguid is my former college classmate, a What to Cook subscriber, and… oh yeah, the co-founder of the sports agency Evolve, along with her husband and 4-time grand slam winner Naomi Osaka. Today, Carly shares how she’s “embracing the pure chaos” of parenting a 4-year-old and a 4-month-old while serving as Naomi’s right hand woman – from helping design her Nike ap...
Get this week’s full So Into That newsletter here! https://whattocook.substack.com/p/i-found-the-perfect-reading-for-a Today I share what I’ve been so into lately: entertaining versus having people over, a great new lipstick, etc. Plus, the insane story of how I heard a beautiful poem read at a wedding and immediately knew who the author was (it's not someone famous, and I'd never heard the poem before!). I also get into: PMS getting way worse with age, kids, or both (my “so out on”) Traveling t...
Dinner party tips. Healthy meals with Trader Joe’s ingredients. Stories involving Martha Stewart, Sufjan Stevens, and Sia? This conversation with Jess Damuck has all of the above and more, and I’m bringing it to you a day after the launch of her gorgeous new book, Health Nut: A Feel-Good Cookbook . If you’ve seen Salad Freak , you know how beautiful Jess’ work is. Which makes sense considering she spent years working directly with – and learning from – Martha Stewart. Amazingly, Jess wrote not o...
I love each and every guest we’ve had on this show, but I’m just gonna say it: for me at least, this episode is probably the most important and relevant one we’ve done yet. Today we have Eve Rodsky , the Harvard-trained author of Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) . I personally credit Eve’s ideas – and the playing cards that help you implement them – with making the “invisible work” of running my own household visible , and equitably div...
I am a longtime Gaby Dalkin lover, and you will soon be, too! She is charming, hard-working, smart, and just a good, kind human. Trigger warning: like the title says, Gaby has experienced 9 miscarriages. She copes with this with humor and levity, so if that's not something you wish to hear right now, skip this one. We also get into: * How Gaby structures her typical day * Dividing responsibilities with her husband * Her IVF journey and miscarriages * Why grilling is seen as a man’s game and why ...
OMFG — Jessa freaking Hastings is on So Into That this week!!!!! Jessa is the brilliant author of the Magnolia Parks book series , and whether or not you’ve read them, I know you’ll love getting to know her and hearing about her path to mega-book-fame. I can’t stop thinking about the unwavering faith that Jessa had in herself that these books would someday be a success, despite so many people telling her no along the way. If you’ve ever wanted to put something out into the world but hit speed bu...
Today’s show kicks off with a BIG announcement… something that’s been in the works for years. I know you’re going to love it! I’ll fill you in on all the details, plus – why I'm relating so hardcore to the show One Day (spoiler: you get to hear all about me and George's FINAL breakup before we got engaged). And an update on what I’m calling “The Year of Me”. Why I’m taking time to reignite old passions and discover new ones this year… and what to keep in mind if you decide to pursue a Year of Yo...
My husband and I have been following the amazing Dr. Aditi Nerurkar for months now, and putting her tips to work in our sometimes-stressful lives. Now that she’s put all her wisdom together in a book and started her own Substack , it seemed like the time to ask her to share science-backed strategies for managing and mastering stress – beyond unhelpful and annoying clichés (“just relax?!”). So in this episode, we talk about the personal stress crisis that inspired Aditi to become a world expert o...
Every time I mention I went to boarding school, people are like "WOAH WOAH WOAH, please explain!" So here's a primer on boarding school, why we loved it, what was hard, and why we think our friendship is still so strong despite not having lived in the same place for more than 15 years. We also get into: * A basic, 101-level intro to boarding school * Different “houses” on campus and their reputations * A typical day * Sneaking out, making out, and navigating the “strike” (disciplinary) system * ...
Cameron Rogers is a longtime friend and OG food/mom content creator who played a crucial role in helping me open up about my life online. True to her Freckled Foodie roots, she still develops recipes but these days you’re more likely to find her talking about motherhood, overall physical and mental health, and how they’re intertwined. So in this episode, we catch up about how to divide the labor of running a household and raising kids; our thoughts on the transition from one child to two; identi...
The response to Sohla’s episode , where we both shared a few things that our husbands have done to make us feel supported postpartum, and shared several elements of postpartum recovery that we wish we’d had a heads up on, was insane . Countless older moms, brand new moms, soon-to-be-moms, all the moms, wrote me to thank me for sharing the real deal about postpartum. But the #1 thing I heard was “I wish my husband had done that” or “I wish my husband had known to help with that" kinds of comments...
If you’re on Instagram, I can almost guarantee you’ve seen Caitlin Murray . She has a way of expressing exactly how many moms feel in the day-to-day grind while making you laugh out loud in the process. After I barely get through today’s intro (happy birthday, Mattis!), Caitlin and I talk about why we’re both out on extreme diets and restrictions and prefer a “damp” approach to alcohol these days… with the occasional full send. Plus, we talk about decisions about whether to have more kids, and h...
I first discovered Sohla El-Waylly in the early days of the pandemic, when Bon Appétit Test Kitchen videos were all the rage. She was by far my favorite contributor to that series, and now that she’s promoting her own cookbook and recently became a mom, this was the perfect time to catch up with her. So today, we talk a bit about “ Start Here ,” the A to Z guide that took Sohla 3 years to write. She also shares her go-to meal when she doesn’t feel like cooking – a surprisingly common feeling for...
I recently asked you for your questions, feedback, and topics you want to hear more about and you gave me a ton of great ideas. One of the most common questions was a version of, “So what’s your deal? What’s your background, and what exactly do you do now?” Good question. How did I wind up as a recipe developer/cookbook author/whatever-I-decide-to-call-myself-that-day? You’re about to find out. In this first solo episode, I share my “villain origin story” along with, of course, a few of the thin...
Peloton classes have made me a much happier and less anxious person. As you’ll hear in this episode, I wish there was a government grant that gave all new mothers Peloton bikes upon the birth of their first child. Being able to exercise and boost those endorphins while the baby is sleeping has been a total game changer for me. And of their many great instructors, is my absolute favorite. Emma’s teaching style is exactly what I look for: encouraging, but not too over-the-top. Her mantra is “progr...
Amanda Hesser founded one of my favorite food and lifestyle brands, Food52 . It’s one of my go-to sources for recipe and gift inspiration… and what’s crazy is that building that hugely successful company is just a small part of Amanda’s life story. She was also a food writer and editor at the New York Times for many years, and she’s written cookbooks and a memoir called Cooking for Mr. Latte which I just love. Today Amanda and I talk about what she’s into right now (padel, anyone?), what she’s o...
The day I announced this podcast, the DM’s started rolling in. “You have to get Katie from Beach Reads and Bubbly on the podcast!” I was already all over it, I love Katie as much as all of you! I get a ton of my book recs from Katie’s page, @beachreadsandbubbly , but more than that, I’ve fallen in love with her down-to-earth, bubbly personality. We had so much fun chatting, after we stopped recording we kept chatting for hours. So today, we get into all things reading, romance books, working / p...
Anela Malik is one of my favorite internet (and real-life) friends. There’s no one who I respect more when it comes to telling beautiful stories with video, and as you’ll see in this episode… she’s so much fun and hilarious, too. Today, we laugh a lot talking about our shared love of smutty books, and Anela opens up about the past year in which she went through a divorce and wound up doing a lot of therapy, self-love, and intention-setting as she re-enters the dating world and a new phase of lif...
Deb Perelman is the OG queen of food blogging — she started Smitten Kitchen in 2006 and has grown it to the absolute behemoth that it is today. In this episode, Deb made me giggle my pants off talking about our husbands’ cooking styles, the cheeky comment her 14-year-old son makes when she orders a drink, the food video trend that she wants to end in 2024, and much, much more. We also get into: * Deb’s current dirty gin martini kick * How her content has evolved since starting Smitten Kitchen in...
Emily Oster is my motherhood messiah. I consider myself to be a pretty relaxed mom, but I certainly didn’t start out that way. Emily’s data-based parenting approach is to thank for that. Anytime I’m starting to bug out about whether sleep training is going to mess up my baby for life, or if my kid is going to go to college only eating chicken fingers, or whether letting my kids watch an extra hour of TV is going to turn them into ding dongs — there’s Emily, giving me the data-backed reasons why ...
It’s official y’all… I’m joining the podcast game. Above, you’ll find a quick rundown of what this show’s going to be all about. My first episode with special guest Emily Oster drops today at 12p Eastern Time. I’ll send out an email around then with all the links where you can watch/listen! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit whattocook.substack.com/subscribe...
