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October 18, 2024 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Its Quinny Cantara Picks one O six, Al Roker and

(00:03):
Courtney Roker Laga. They've got a new book out, Al
Roker's Recipes to Live By, and we're going to talk
about that. But first things first, Al, wasn't it sad?
Wasn't it sad when the Blue Plate and Chatham closed?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
We love that. It's such a great place.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I know, we've been going there literally for years. We
we have a house in Columbia County and I think Courtney,
you were eight, I think when we first got started
going there, and uh, you know it's changed over it,
but it was such a staple in Chatham, New York.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Thirty one years, thirty one years in business. It was
sad to see go.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, just just not not the same, you know. You
know we would come around that little traffic circle. I
mean we went there before there was even a circle.
You know. It's it was tough.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Al Allen his daughter Courtney on the show to talk
about the new Recipes to Live By book that you
guys wrote together.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
I presume you helped Al, right, you helped her?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh, I put.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
It minimal help card to your pro chef. You clearly
like Michelin can't Terry tells me the Michelin think big.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
You worked for Michelin Star Restaurants, right, Courtney.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Yeah, when I was a little bit younger, thirty seven now,
maybe about like when I was just starting out thinking
that I knew everything. Yeah, I worked at a couple
of Michelin Star restaurants, which was great, but I got
burnt out a little bit and decided to go in
a different direction.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
So you're a recipe developer, what is that?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
So? Yeah, I recipe.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Developed on the side, which is like, you know, creating
recipes from scratch ideas. Different companies can hire me for freelancing.
I worked for a kitchen appliance company for five years
as the recipe developer for that company. And I'm actually
a personal chef now. I work for a company called
Tiny Spoon Chef. So I have about eight clients that
I cook for on a regular basis.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
But the guys the thing that made this perfect for her,
you know, we wanted to do this, this family recipe book.
My family, my wife, Deborah's family, are friends, Courtney's family
and and but I don't know about your family. But
my mom never wrote anything down. My grandmother never wrote
anything down, So Courtney as a recipe developer was basically

(02:32):
like this recipe detective, like interrogating us about about what
the food tasted, like what were the flavors we remembered,
and then she had to develop the recipe for it.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
So, aw, what's what recipe is closest to your heart?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Then?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
If these are family recipes, oh.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Gosh, I would say, especially as we're coming into winter,
my mother's oxtail stew and dumplings, and and for dessert
the pineapple upside down cake, which is a kind of
an old school thing but is making a big comeback.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
What what were you guys cooking on the on the
TV when Sky started to cry this week?

Speaker 5 (03:13):
I know, Oh my god, that was crazy. We were
cooking I think salmon Berger's and short bread bread pudding,
but the kitchen aid was going wonky. So I think
that scared her a little bit.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, so, how you're kind of a foodie. Do you
still do your food podcast?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Uh? You know, we did that, like I think it
was two years ago for Thanksgiving. We haven't revived it,
but I'm hoping we do. To be perfectly honest, I
was kind of skeptical about it because I said, are
people going to listen to people cook food? But as
a terms of you know, you're talking, you're telling stories.

(03:49):
But people loved it. It did really well.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Is there any cannabis and any of these recipes, Courtney?

Speaker 5 (03:58):
No, but you could. I mean I guess you could
add it like cinnamon buns or pinside down cookies. Yeah,
but you guys got to figure that out on your own.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Because I say that because I just saw your dad
giving a forecast with Snoop and all these weed cities.
It is hilarious.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
That was awesome.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
It was you know what, nobody's having a better year?
Yeah than Snoop Dogg. Yeah, and you know what, the
guy comes to play. There are some folks who phone
it in. Not this guy. You know, he is all in.
And you know it's almost like Snoop has been snooped

(04:40):
for all this time. It's just we've just caught up
to him.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Well, he said, right, he's held it together, which is
so impressive. Hey, Al, talk to me about the future
of as starts technology and bringing us the weather. Uh,
you gonna be able to literally transport yourself into a
hurricane at some point.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
I know you've kind of done.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
I hope not. But I will tell you this that
that I think there are really real advances uh with
with AI that that helps crunch numbers even though we
use these supercomputers. The AI is and it's in the
early stages, is showing that it could even speed up

(05:20):
those those forecasts that we're getting and make them a
little more accurate. There's still a lot of work to
be done, but you know, it's a it's an interesting
there's interesting technology out there.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
America's most trusted whether rn Al Roker. And we're talking
to his daughter as well, Courtney Roker Laga, promoting the
new book Al Roker's Recipes to Live By. Let's say,
Al Roker, you're a Patriot fan and you're going to
watch the Patriots Jaguars nine to thirty Sunday morning. Oh,
I guess, Courtney, what what what should we serve for
a football breakfast?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (05:50):
Football breakfast? Well, we have these breakfast burritos that are
really good, like Terriso. I think that would be great,
Bacon Waffell, which is great. Also, you could do an
Operol sprits blood of Orange Aperol sprits. If you really
want what I.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Do want today.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
I don't even know what. I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
That is.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Great, you're gonna love it.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's a great suggestion. Thank you for that.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
We get that, guys, we get there. We get the
food delivered in a box. And so when you know,
at the end of the month, we actually have some
pieces of food left over, So, uh what what did?
What do you call yourself? Courtney a recipe developer? Developer?
I kind of we become recipe developers with the extra
stuff from the box at the end of the month.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Alan Courtney Quinn is a dink. He's double income, no kids.
He door dashes more things than he should. When's the
last time Al Roker or Courtney Broker's door dashed anything.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
I Uber eats and I do it all the time. Yes, yes,
you mean where to order from?

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah? Like you like you know, and you're not getting
on like a corn don from seven to eleven. You're
going to a nice restaurant.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
I ordered from what are you talking about it?

Speaker 1 (07:05):
A Big Mac the other day.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
I know, I know, I refuse to do it. I
just don't do it.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Say when you me we're old school? I mean, yeah,
I go back to the Smucker's birthdays from your predecessor.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
I mean that you go, there, you go. That's what
I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
I love it you guys.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Good luck with the new book, and thanks for making
the time and maybe we'll run India in Columbia County. Oh,
I love it.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
You know. We were just in the Have you ever
been to the Hilltop orchards just on the other side
in Richmond, Mass?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I had not.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
It's well, you know, it's a great you know, pick
your own apples. But you talk about recipe development. So
we always order the hot cider apple donuts, like like
four dozen of them, and it's just over and I
finally a couple of years ago, I said to Courtney,
what could you make out of this? And what did
you come up?

Speaker 5 (07:53):
Well, we did a bread pudding recipe out.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Of it donuts.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's a great idea that.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
That's in the book. Baby Awesome on.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Al Rokers Recipes to Live By, written by Al's daughter,
Courtney roker Laga. Thanks again, thanks you too, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
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