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Antoni Porowski wants to take you to dinner. Well, not you (or me) specifically, but those craving a cookbook.

The Queer Eye host’s second book, Let’s Do Dinner, is on shelves now. Unlike his previous culinary memoir, Antoni in the Kitchen, this book goes light on the personal anecdotes and heavy on the practicality of creating a satisfying, simple dinner – his favourite meal of the day.

“With my first book, it was a culinary memoir,” Porowski says, Zooming from his apartment in New York. “It was a mix – it was kind of all over the place – of recipes that shaped me, my Polish heritage, recipes that didn’t make it on Queer Eye, stuff that I ate as a student.”

He has much less time to make his own meals now, but cooking remains his favourite activity. “Those moments are even more sacred, and I have more appreciation for the luxury of being in my own kitchen,” he says.

The book details a list of ingredients Porowski keeps stocked in his kitchen, including certain beans, vinegars and spices, as well as nuts, lemons, eggs and yogurt (yes, of course, peas also made the list). This way, aside from needing to hit the grocery store for a protein or other perishables, he is otherwise ready to prep.