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The debut cookbook from benny blanco-pop music super-producer, artist, actor on FXX''s Dave, and consummate food freak-teaches you everything you need to know about cooking, enjoying life, and throwing the greatest dinner party of all time.

Hi, I''m benny blanco. I''m in a television show with my best friend Dave and I probably produced most of the songs you have heard on the radio from 2008 until now. When I was thirteen, I got a George Foreman Grill and it changed my life forever. I would invite friends over and we would get stoned and gather around the grill and make the most elaborate sandwiches our prepubescent minds could fathom. I became obsessed with food and cooking for friends.

I know what you are going to say,and I get it. Cooking is scary. But I promise you, once you get into it, it will be your new addiction. Slicing an onion is like taking a Xanax to me. I made this cookbook to teach you everything I know about food, cooking, and throwing the greatestdinner party of all time. There are the basics to get your kitchen ready, a little advice from my expert friends, then all of the dinner party menus I love to make, like:

5 Dishes to Get You Laid and One for the Morning After
I Wish I Were an Italian Grandma
Take Me to the Cheesy Rodeo
F*ck Morton''s Steakhouse

Which are filled with insane recipes like:

Lose Your Mind Lobster Rolls
"I Might Go Vegetarian" Veggie Sandwich
Chicken Cutlets with Honey, Peppers, and Parm
"I Hope We Didn''t Make a Baby" Breakfast Burrito.

I''ve been told some of the finest stories over meals. I''ve laughed so hard I thought I was going to actually die. I''ve fallen in love-sometimes with the food, sometimes with the person across the table. I''ve cried in good ways, and I''ve cried in bad ways. I hope you''ve been lucky enough to have all these same memories and then some. But if you haven''t, I can make you a promise. If you follow these threesimple steps, it will all become a reality: Open this book. Open your heart. And open wide, baby.