Is this a cookbook or a memoir?

Well, the first one's a memoir, and the second one, well, the first one's a memoir and has recipes that you would go to that are in my home recipe book.

We have a little red book that has all of the pancakes, the waffles, the biscuits, the kind of stuff that you make at home.

No one's making a Thomas Keller smoked salmon ice cream cone at their house.

That is a coffee table book.

And it's beautiful, and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that.

But for me, I'm most likely grabbing a joy of cooking, a better homes and gardens, a silver palette for the recipes that you want to do every day.

How do you get ideas? How do you formulate a menu item or a new dish?