This show was packed with audience questions
for our guests and I thought it would be a perfect show
to end the show with what we call 'Q and Ray'.
We have about five minutes,
let's see how many we can get in there.
Who's first?
(audience clapping) Hello,
what's your name?
My name is Logan.
Hi Logan, how are you?
I'm good.
So I was just wondering, I know like your schedule
is probably like really busy,
what's your favorite way to like, relax
and just kind of unwind?
The absolute truth?
I go home, I put on my pajamas and my slippers,
of which I have like, a large slipper collection.
And I pour a glass of wine
and I go in the kitchen and I cook.
(audience laughing)
(audience clapping)
I also love photography, I love to travel,
I like to read actual books.
So I mean, if it's super quiet and I'm done cooking,
I will read or, and I also like art,
I like to draw and paint and things.
But generally you'll find me in the kitchen
if you came to my home.
Which people find freaky but I'm like,
why do you think I do this for a living, duh!
(audience laughing)
Hi.
Hello Rachael. What's your name?
My name is Susan. Hi Susan.
Hi. What can I do ya for?
I was wondering, now that you're 50 years young,
what did you cook to celebrate your birthday?
On my actual birthday my mom and my sister
threw me a pizza party but my friends gifted me
a surprise party, three months later,
in which I ate nothing and drank a lot.
(audience chuckling)
And my super close-- My kind of party.
Girlfriends also gave me a lovely Mexican dinner.
So, I'm an equal opportunity eater
and at any age, I will pretty much eat anything.
Thank you. Thank you.
Happy birthday. Thank you.
(audience clapping)
Okay, one more, let's keep going.
Hi, what's your name? Hi Rachael.
Daniella.
Hi Daniella, beautiful name.
Thank you.
I wanted to know what are your top three
favorite restaurants in Manhattan
and what would you order in each of them?
I don't like lists, so in no particular order,
like I love giving people recommendations
but I don't like rating things
because I don't like to be rated as a human.
But if-- Calories have to count
so it has to be something that, you know, good.
What are your favorite types of food?
I like everything, I just want something
that it's like an explosion in your mouth
and you say yum, I've never had this before.
In Manhattan, in all of New York City,
it gets a little more complicated 'cause Brooklyn
has so many homes of my favorite restaurants.
In New York City, for Italian food I love, Via, V-I-A,
Carota, C-A-R-O-T-A, on Grove Street.
And across the street they have beautiful little bar
that serves perfect Negronis.
So you can kind of make an evening of that,
it's very romantic and sweet, very vegetable driven.
Two brilliant female chefs and to me,
it's the most authentic experience outside of Italy.
It's like literally being in a trattoria you know,
in a beautiful Italian city.
Let's see, I also love Union Square Cafe,
it's a classic and Danny Meyer is such a great man
and he re-gentrified a lot of Manhattan,
including the neighborhood I live in.
So that's a classic for me.
I love a restaurant called Nick's.
It's called Nick's because it's based on an old court case
that reclassified tomatoes, which are a fruit,
as a vegetable, so that people would buy more of them.
The court case is titled, Nick's versus whatever
and I would imagine, The United States,
and Nick's is right in my 'hood and it's all vegetarian
and Vegan, it has an amazing cocktail menu.
But I have taken men that are serious meat and potato people
there and they absolutely love it,
so, Nick's, Union Square for classic New York experience
and Via Carota if you want a nice romantic Italian dinner.
Thank you!
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