WEBVTT - I Smell Pop Culture: Sandra Lee 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.239 I Am all In. 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:19.440 As I Smell Pop Culture with Easton Allen and iHeart 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:20.640 Radio podcast. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.000 Do you smell something I do? I Smell pop Culture? Hey, everybody, 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.000 this is Easton Allen. This is the I Am all 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.760 In Podcast one eleven productions. I Heart Radio, iHeart Media, 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:34.440 iHeart podcasts. We're doing I Smell pop Culture. I'm back again. 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.640 Thank you so much for listening. Thank you. I've gotten 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:39.479 all your letters, I've gotten all your fan mail. It's 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.839 just overwhelming the amount of positive reaction we've gotten from 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.040 this show. So thank you again. Before we get started 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.640 to hear on this next episode, I just want to 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.760 thank you so much from the bottom of my heart 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.120 for giving us a chance. You know, given me the 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.360 gift of your time. I listened to a lot of podcasts, Okay, 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.319 I listen to a lot of shows, and like every 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.160 now and again, a show you'd listen to, you'll get 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.120 like the sidekick or like the third guy on the 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.720 microphone will like have his own bit or his own 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.560 he'll host the show, like some as the producer that 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:12.800 you hear from from time to time, we'll like host 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.080 their own show. But never once have I listened to 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.120 a show and heard them say, Okay, we're gonna let 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.160 the sound guy host it. I've never heard that before, 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.720 so I don't want to use the term trailblazer or 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:30.280 pioneer lightly, but I do believe that we're covering new 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.679 ground here. We are going boldly into a place that 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:37.039 has never been to before in the world podcasting. And 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.120 I'm so glad, glad that you're coming along with us, 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.400 because you know, you download a podcast about your favorite show, 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.000 it's hosted by the guy that plays your favorite character, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.200 and then you press play and you hear the sound 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:53.160 guy instead, and that's got to be a audio whiplash 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.040 on a scale hitherto undreamed of. So thank you for 0:01:56.080 --> 0:02:00.240 coming along with us. We're we have a really exciting 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.680 show for you today. So here's what we're doing this week. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.880 You know, Melissa McCarthy did not return as Suki for 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:13.000 the revival for the Year in the Life mini series, 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.000 and the fix there was to bring in a bunch 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.560 of like celebrity chefs that would fill her vacancy at 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.080 the Dragonfly in And we're going to talk to a 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.520 chef that was mentioned in A Year in the Life summer, 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.440 and I'm so excited to get into this, but first 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.400 I got to preheat the oven here, I got to 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.120 adjust my table scapes. But stick around and we'll be 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.079 right back after these words. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.800 iHeart podcasts. Listen on the iHeartRadio app. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.239 Hey, wow, those are some fantastic products, fantastic services. I 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:48.800 can't wait to spend all my money there and use 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.480 all those promo codes that we so graciously give you. 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.160 My name is Easton Allen. This is I smell pop 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.639 culture here on the IM all In podcast. So as 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.160 I was saying right before, right before we heard all 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.320 this wonderful commercials. In a Year in the Life, we 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.560 have a vacancy at the Dragonfly In. The chef position 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.320 is open, and they bring in celebrity chefs like Roy Troy, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.240 Anthony Bourdain, Rachel Ray. They all come by to try 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.200 to get the job at the Dragonfly In. They're all 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.280 chefs vying for this prestigious role. And in summer, in 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.799 a Year in Life, summer, there's a scene where Luke 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:31.080 and Loralai are arguing in Luke's diner and Luke storms off, 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.760 but first he says, I've got muffins in the oven 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.880 at the end for breakfast tomorrow, because Sandra Lee called 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.400 and canceled because she talked to Aine Garden who said, 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.640 don't go to the Dragonfly because it's awful. How was that? Scott? 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.440 Was that good? Could I be Luke in a in 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:48.440 a stage production? Maybe? But so Luke says that, And 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:53.400 we're going to talk to Sandra Lee. Yes, Sandra Lee 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.920 is going to be here on I Smell Pop Culture. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.400 We're heading into the kitchen today. We're going to head 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.640 into the kitchen. We're going to talk to this legendary 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:07.800 chef and crafting icon, Sandelie. She is a pioneer herself, 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.560 talk about trailblazing like we're doing here on this podcast. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:15.040 Sandralie is truly an innovator. She created the semi homemade 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.880 concept that was her show on the Food Network. It 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:21.800 ran for fifteen years, Semi Homemade. And what that concept 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:26.200 is is it's the fraction is like seventy percent store 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.760 bought thirty percent fresh ingredients. You're taking like a pre 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:36.040 made food, food thing and adding in something else, changing, 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:40.960 tweaking something, adding in a different ingredient and creating something new. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.080 And I think that is just such a such an 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.480 interesting and exciting idea, especially for if you're trying to 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.800 create something excellent on a budget. I think that's such 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.200 a cool idea she got. She won an Emmy Award 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.120 for Semi homide Cooking with Sandralie. It ran for fifteen seasons. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.479 She's also a best selling author. She has written twenty 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.600 seven books. Friends, I don't think I have read twenty 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.760 seven books in my lifetime. She has written twenty seven books, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.800 the cookbooks, She's written a novel. She's a breast cancer survivor, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.680 she's an advocate, she's an aspiring business woman, truly inspiring. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.640 We're going to talk about it all, and I promise 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.080 you we're going to find out what would have happened 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.039 if she hadn't bailed on the Dragonfly and if she 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.360 had taken that job, what would have happened. We're going 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.760 to find out about it all. But wait, do you hear? 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:30.880 That? 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.719 Looks like it's ready. Sandra Lee. She's here. Let's bring 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.560 her in. Sandra Lee is here with us. Thank you 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:39.760 for doing this. We're so excited. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.200 I'm so happy to be here. Thanks for including me. 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.640 You're such a legend. There's so much to get into, 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.320 but I want to go back to the beginning. I 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.240 want to start at the start. That's a great place 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:54.839 to start. How did you first fall in love with 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.160 being creative through crafts and food and things? 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:58.200 Like? 0:05:58.279 --> 0:05:59.920 When did you discover you had a passion for that? 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:06.600 Always when I was I mean I remember being when 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.680 I lived with my grandmother until I think I was 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.840 six years old. We were always in the kitchen or 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.600 I was in the sandbox and making something in the backyard, 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.280 or coming in the kitchen and decorating cakes with her. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.440 Because my grandma makeed all the cakes for the church. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:22.680 So that was kind of her donation because we didn't 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.240 have a lot of money, but she would bake all 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.679 the wedding cakes, she would bake all the shower cakes 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.520 and all the birthday cakes, and so that was her 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.160 gift because she couldn't donate money, so she did that 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.599 and she ran the community service there for her entire 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:39.440 adult life. 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.640 I think is that where did she when you were 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.720 baking cakes with her? Did she like did she get 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:48.960 super creative with how she decorated them? Is that kind 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:50.680 of where you kind of got that. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.680 Her decoration and her presentation. So my birthday cake, my 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.320 sister and I our birthdays are one year and four 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.520 days apart, so I'm July third, July seventh. So my 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.640 grandma would bake cake. She would bake them from scratch, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.960 though she's not a box girl, but she would do 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.920 things like make us an eight inch cake and bake 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.120 two of them right like you do. And then she 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.600 would take one of those silver pie tins and flip 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.400 it upside down and put the cake on top of 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:18.440 that as our pedestal. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:19.400 I love it. 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.680 It would decorate it with all the icing and all 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.760 the little fancy stuff, and we would each have our 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.119 own cake, and then she just hand us a fork. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.840 And I still do that, like I have friends. I'm 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.720 a godmother of two boys with my best friend Alexander 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.880 Stanton and her husband Sam, And before they were even married, 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.360 we would go to the store if we were like 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.440 having a week and I was just starting semi homemaid 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.640 living in New York City to do some my homemade 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:43.880 and we would go to the store and buy a 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.640 sheet cake, take it to the hotel, get forks, and 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.760 literally just sit there and eat the sheet cake and talk. 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.320 I knew I was gonna love talking to you that 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.880 I did this exact same thing. There's nothing matter in 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:56.679 just eating she cake with a fork. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.800 I know. I have this new QVC show coming it's 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.680 called Sandra Lean Now, but it's introducing it Sandy Claus 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.400 and they're like, do you want to put cakes in 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.720 your show? I'm like yes, and they go, okay, so 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.280 how are you going to slice and serve it? I go, 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.320 I'm going to stick a fork in it? And they go, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.680 I don't think you can do that. I'm like, I 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.040 think I'm gonna do that. Okay, I'll cut a slice 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:17.520 and then I'm going to stick a fork in the cake. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:19.400 Why not? 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.680 Oh my god? I love it. And speaking of QVC, 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.720 you've you've been with QVC for a long time. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.120 There is my entire adult life. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.360 It's something I was really impressed by that I didn't 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.480 know until I was doing some research for this. You 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.200 created a product in the nineties called the curtain Craft, 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.280 and I was so impressed and blown away by that, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.400 Like how how did you come up with that? For 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.160 people that don't know's, it's like it's a system to 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.200 create your own drapery and things like that and take 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.199 spare fabric and repurpose it. How did that idea come 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:55.560 to you? 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.360 Well? I needed to decorate on a budget. And I 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.920 had a bedroom that I was renting in California in 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.240 a house and I it was actually hairy Malibu. I 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.400 was a waitress at the time, but I went down 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.720 and I got fabric sharing fabric from downtown LA. It's 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.839 like a dollar twenty five a yard dollar ninety nine 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.640 maybe ninety nine cents. It was really inexpensive. And I 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.360 take coat hanger wire and I just started bending it 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.120 and like making these apparatuses where I could pull fabric 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:30.760 through and make pretty flounces and you know, swags and ruffles. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.960 And my uncle came over, my uncle Bill, who just 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.400 went to Heaven a couple of years ago, and he said, honey, 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.720 those he was he's a welder and a construction worker, 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.480 and he goes, I think that's a product people would like. 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.240 So I showed it to my aunt, who was a 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.280 huge crafter. I mean she did everything from tri kim 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:54.480 which is like painting, to jewelry making to art making. 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.480 I mean she was just a genius crafter, baking, she 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.160 did everything you could eat, all for Flora's aunt Peggy. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.280 But my uncle said, you have a gift in this 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.000 is a product line, and you have to take it 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:11.520 to a fair and exhibit it. And so his friend 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.800 was a welder and he made up all of these 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.800 for me, and I took it to the La County Fair. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.240 I won the Blue Ribbon for Product Display and Design. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.800 It's a home decorating line. It ultimately wound up being 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.000 about one hundred and twenty products. People think I always 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.680 wanted to be a personality, and maybe I did, but 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.280 I hired Florence Henderson at this time to be my spokesperson, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.720 and Gary Collins from the Homey Home Show Days, which 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.040 nobody remembers that show, but it was just this brilliant 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:42.880 how to show. And so I really started in product 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:49.280 design and manufacturing and creating packaging and ways for people 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.320 to do things that were beautiful like you saw in 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.160 all the fancy magazines, but on a budget. And so 0:10:56.280 --> 0:11:00.480 curtaincraft was born, and then floral craft was born because 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.800 my grandmother would say, Honey, don't send me flowers. They 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.600 just die. And I'm like, she's right, they just what 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:12.640 should I do? So it was this silica gel crystals 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.120 and you put a flower in them and you cover 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.160 it up completely and you leave it in there for 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.720 like a week or two and all the water is 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:26.280 absorbed and you just have this gorgeous, real flower. And 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.520 then I would take the you know, the flower wire 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.360 and the flower tape, the floral tape, and I would 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.280 make her a bouquet that lasted forever. And she loved them. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.480 But then she called me and she's like, Sandy, it 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:37.560 just collects dust. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.640 I'm like, you can't wait. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.040 Can I say that on the air? I was like, so, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.120 I'm like, she's right. So then I created a product line. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.000 I got with a chemist and I created a product 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.720 to go with that silica gel that ate the dust 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.120 so you would it wouldn't hurt the flowers, but it 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.000 ate up all the dust. I'm like, Grandma, look and 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:00.920 she's like, oh, that's really She goes you know what 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:05.640 I saw, honey. I saw these pretty Cape de Monte 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.440 flowers that are on the side of a vase. And 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.840 I used to like my first money ever, Nobody's going 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:13.640 to know what the hell I'm talking about. They're just 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.400 going to think I'm like crazy. But I drove all 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.720 the way out to Librea, California, from Santa Monica, which 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.400 is like ninety minutes, because they had a new store 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.640 called fitzen Floyd wasn't a new product, but a brand 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.320 new grand opening store, Fitzmfloyd. We was all these teapots 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.880 with like bunnies on them or bears on them, and 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.040 they're really collectible. You were talking about. This is like 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.880 the early nineties. So anyway, yes, I was born before 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:44.000 two thousand. Anyway. So I drove all the way out 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.360 there to buy this teapot and I'm like, cro call 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.360 my aunt Peggy. She's like, you don't even have an 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.120 apartment yet, honey, and I go, I know, but I 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:54.400 have to have this teapot from fitz Employd. So fast forward. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.400 Kapi de Monte was like the next level of Fitzmployd, 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:01.719 which you still can't afford. But they make these gorgeous 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:06.559 flowers out of glass. So I created a product within 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.000 the floral Craft line that if you sprayed it on 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:15.880 the flowers multiple times, they turned into this glass like thing. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.800 You spray it on the like once living flower. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.240 On the one living flower that you dried. So then 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.880 that was born. So floral Craft became a whole line. 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.000 And I really what I do is I invent products. 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.839 Nobody knows that I like invent products like I'm doing 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.520 Christmas now and I'm working on twenty twenty five Christmas 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.640 because twenty four is done and we're loaded in. But 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.840 look at this bow. This is like a double bow. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:39.960 It's stunning. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.640 It's stunning. You can't get this one yet, but I 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.560 mean I literally pulled it out this morning. I'm like, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.440 that's twenty twenty five. So when you're sitting I think 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.040 about this Christmas, I'm already decorating for next Christmas. That's 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.320 called it Sandy Clause. Like, I just love it. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.680 I love it. And that's something that I'm so impressed 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.760 by with you, Like the level of inn I mean, 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.560 how many people are when they're creating, come up with 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:04.920 an idea or a product, They're like, let's get a 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.360 chemist on the phone, and like so they can create 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.240 what I see in my head and what I want 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:10.440 to do. I love that. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.200 Thanks. Everything is chemistry. Everything is science, like every single thing. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.400 And that's how some my Homemade was born and it 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.560 was so big and everybody told me, they're like, you 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.240 can't do that. I go, why And they're like, because 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.600 you just can't tell people what name brands to use. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.440 I go, But we are shopping at grocery stores, and 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.600 every product has different ingredient bases, and every product goes 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.760 with another product differently, Like Hellman's and Best Foods are 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.480 the same thing, but that's not miracle. Miracle with is 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.280 salad dressing. These are mayonnaise. People don't realize that what 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.440 we have to share and cookie mix can be a 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.840 base for a pie. Why can't we create recipes and 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.400 tell them exactly what I use that they can be 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.240 successful at home. Because you can't tell people what brands 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.080 to use. I go, okay, well I'm doing it anyway. 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.560 No, I love it, And like I mean, at least 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.360 in my experience, I always thought it was like it 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.120 was one or the other. It's like, Okay, I'm either 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.000 going to make everything from scratch or I'm like making 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.200 it from the box and I'm only going to use 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.120 what they say on the box. I didn't like. I 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:11.800 didn't really until I watched sam My Hood Made. I 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.560 was like, oh, I didn't realize you could mix them 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.600 or change that. And it's just such a brilliant idea. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.000 Yeah, it calls for water, and if you don't want 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.840 to use water, use chocolate. Malk and a chocolate cake 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.440 recipe it just deepens the flavor. If you don't want that, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.800 use coffee. If you want something more elevated. It depends 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.480 on the audience that you're serving. Like for brownie mix, 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.680 I only get I only buy the browning mix that 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:40.800 has the chocolate pouch in it, and I only put coffee. 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.760 I don't even put cof coffee in that. I put 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:43.640 espresso in that. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:44.480 Oh. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:49.880 I underbake it by about eight minutes and it is 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.680 so gooey and delicious and fattening. 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.880 That's the best, guy, Oh my god, I absolutely love it. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.040 I I want to go back to to your blue 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.880 ribbon at the La County Fair. I'm so glad you 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.960 filled me on that because I read that you want 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.560 a blue ribbon, but I couldn't find what you want 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.520 it for, and so I was so curious. Was it 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:13.280 for something baking? 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.760 But it was booth display and design on curtain craft 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:18.600 booth display and design. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.640 We're going to talk more about the fair element here 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.720 in a bit, but I just really want to fanboy 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.520 out over the idea of fair. The fair is like 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.560 my favorite thing all year long. I live for it. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.200 I go to the La County Fair, I go to 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.520 the OC Fair. I've been to the San Diego Fair. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.200 That's the best fair this Oh my gosh, the San 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.680 Diego Fair that was my first fair really put off 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:47.160 my student loans on that fair I did. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.200 That's incredible. It's I mean, the San Diego County fair 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.120 grounds are stunning. But the thing about the fair that 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.840 I love is that, especially these days, we're so like 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.280 we're so disconnected as people. But when you go to 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:05.679 the fair, I love walking through the baking and the 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.719 crafting competitions and seeing like these are things that people 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.560 in my community are making, and these are talents that 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.720 people have, and I just feel so connected to my 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.960 community and people around me. Like brings a tear to 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.680 my eye. I always run to the city who got 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.639 those blue ribbons at the fair, and I love that 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:22.800 you had that same passion. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.520 You know what's amazing this particular year in the largest 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.840 fair in this country, which is the Texas Fair. It 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.680 takes place in Dallas. I've been to it. It is incredible. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.880 I think the child there was a child that took 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:42.159 the blue ribbon in the adult baking competition, and I 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.080 think that I think, I don't know exactly, I just 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.960 kind of like you know, heard it through the grape vine. Yeah, 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:53.280 I think that this kid was thirteen, maybe twelve, like 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.200 it was a thing that this kid won a thing. 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.200 But yeah, to look at the baking cases, and it's 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.199 also very motive. You really should go though and look 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.159 at the baking cases right after they hand out the 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.200 ribbons because that's when the baked item looks the best, 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.000 right when you go down where it's like, how did 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.000 that win a ribbon? Well for three weeks baby? And 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.680 that green stuff on there is called mold because the 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:21.320 cases are not refrigerated. But yeah, there's something like two 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.840 hundred different entries that you can place jams, jellies, you know, 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:35.040 fruit preserves, you can cookies, brownies, wandies, pies, cake pops, cupcakes, cakes, like, 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.600 and that's just the sweet part. There's a whole savory section. 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.919 I mean, there's something for everybody there. What do you 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.399 think about the Sometimes I'll walk by the cake decorating 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.520 and I see the ones that are like ninety nine 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.320 percent fondan't you know like where it's like it almost 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.560 turns into sculpting at that point, Like, what do you 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.840 think about that style of cake decorating? 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:03.080 Well, when I was first going to QBC my first 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.040 three years, and I was in my late twenties early 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:09.959 early early thirties, like maybe thirty thirty one. QBC sent 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.760 me over to launch QBC in England and Germany, so 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.960 it was UK and then I was in Dusseldorf in Germany. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.400 When I went to the UK, my sister Kimmy used 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.919 to come with me because it was you know, what 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:23.439 you did here in an hour, it took you a 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.840 week to do there, and you're sleeping on couches and 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.480 you're just like, it was such an incredible process to 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:34.320 launch this network, but it was you know, it's a grind. 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.000 You're launching something brand new, and I was in I 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.760 was launching home, garden and crafts, so I was in 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.600 that department. I hadn't gone into food yet, but I was. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.560 My sister and I would go to Herod's and Harrods 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.800 is like one of those great department stores in the world, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.680 Like you have to go to Herods and we would 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:56.320 go to the food court and we would buy my 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:00.120 nieces and nephews in Santa Claus all their stocking stuffers. 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:02.520 They had candies we didn't have here, and we would 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.000 buy them all the beanie baberries, which now are worth working. 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.199 I wish we would have kept them. Kids would have 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.680 known like we got them all. You couldn't get them here. 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:14.120 But they had a cake area, and in their cake 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.359 area was the most beautiful cakes you've ever seen. And 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.520 I was sitting there in absolute wonderment thinking of my grandmother, 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.120 and I was like, how did they get the icing 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:28.160 that smooth? Like, I don't understand, how do you do that? 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.240 And then when they shared with me the process, it 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.920 was all fonded. And then years years, years years later 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.840 you go to Michael's or Joanne's and you can buy 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:39.720 it ready You can make fond it yourself, but you 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.360 can buy it ready made. And they would also use 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.720 like almond paste and they would make these great little 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.920 like bunnies for Easter, Santa's, for Christmas or whatever it is. 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:53.560 And now it's every day here. Back in the day, 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:55.960 and when I first started some my homemaid, no one 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:57.840