I have never met Stephanie Hansen or Kurt Johnson in real life but I feel like I know them through their work. Stephanie is a fellow food writer, television personality, and cookbook author, who I have had the privilege of interacting with on several occasions, including a Substack LIVE where she showed me how to make a true midwestern hotdish. With tater tots and everything.

Her husband Kurt is an author and storyteller with a knack for creating eccentric characters that you swear you’ve met IRL, and stories that tell the truth about human nature without abandoning hope that we’re going to maybe be ok.

They have written a book together and I can’t WAIT to get my hands on a copy. We will be traveling across the country at the end of April so I have to wait until May to order this book. But YOU, assuming you have a static address, don’t have to. Order, my friends, and thank me later.