Surprise is coming up with Quest and the book is fantastic so we'll get into that in just a minute but 1st we start with Stevie Wonder Don't you worry about a thing it's world. Like I have. Carried through you know I'm a rock. Raiser you know I speak very very fluent Spanish. For the. Home is big. Game for them. But don't you we're. Going to do Ok Happy Thanksgiving it's an encore edition of The World Cafe I'm Calais out today a true renaissance man Amir Quest Love Thompson he's the co-founder of the hip hop icons the roots and the bandleader for The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon he's also an author 5 times over his latest book is called mixtape pot luck inspired by the food salon dinner parties he throws it's a collection of recipes from his friends friends like Martha Stewart Fred Armisen Amy Poehler and dozens more alongside each recipe Quest Love has selected a song to inspire each guest to cook Quest will take us through some of his musical selections and we will try to figure out which of his friends a recipe is his favorite will have a lot of laughs and a giant surprise you don't want to miss Let's get started though with the song Quest chose firm self it's Cab Calloway So everybody eats when they come to my many songs highlighted in our guest's new book mixtape pot luck we're joined by the author of the book co-founder and bandleader of the roots and musical director of The Tonight Show on n.b.c. It's Quest Quest it's a pleasure to me welcome to World Cafe thank you for having that was a really great introduction and I feel important Thank you it's worth a Minute Man it's worth a very I forgot there's one other big word author author of 4 books now your 5th book mixtape pot luck is not your traditional cookbook though you know this is born out of your food salons but there are a lot of really interesting people celebrity some some people that you've heard of some people that you haven't heard of that all contributed a recipe for this book and it's broken broken up into several sections and for each person that contributed a recipe you contributed a song not based on for them not based on the dish but the person themselves correct exactly this this is probably the most fun project ahead. We all a food about like it's easy to use that as an excuse to eat well like. That's it would saying to him yes eating good so I was I was doing too much require and eating good. Less less mac and cheese Q tips are. Mixed a potluck the name of the new book it is available now. Yeah the book is broken up into sections arrival snacks started up small plates stupes and soups and stews sides and salads vegetarian dishes cartoons meat eaters bittersweet ending racing class etc It's pretty well covered but I wanted to the 1st person I wanted to talk about was with the person who wrote the foreword and the song you picked for the person who wrote it John can you please a little bit of this because it's a fun reveal. What celebrity might be worthy of Snoop Dog life of the heart and it's Martha asked her to do before it's in my book I thought her story was incredibly sweet I thought it was a very a lovely forward and you know you really couldn't ask a better person you know who like middle life had a life for a very long time on television as someone who's like here's how you entertain so yeah it's like think of this is the 21st century version of that which she she is no one Stepford wife or you know that sort of thing whatever idea that you would think of like she's very down there and you know I couldn't think of a better person to do this for so hopefully now she's forgiven me for. Liking a sandwich with cole slaw innit. Yeah man dude that's a hard thing to believe you almost feel weird if there's a grudge being held over. Over. She won't hesitate to remind me of you know the world here with Quest Love In The World Cafe So in addition to ino getting recipes that that you know can connect people you know this is under the guise of like you said a salon party or a potluck and you've got playlists steps in and out now you've also have some setting the mood with music and you say when people arrive you should start with instrumental music so that conversations can grow without competition I love that line what's a good what's a good instrumental like what's a go to no fail this is on my mix every single instrumental playlist just because you can count on it. Ok so my probably my go to record is in the story behind it is weird Miles Davis' last quote unquote traditional jazz album which is. His effort to t.v. So I mean the story behind it was that he was about the good transformative phase in this career where he was looking for something new. And while you're quick. There's. So every song I say you guys with this producer John Myers our producer is good like that yeah so the unheard of print song now now in play and I'm playing them for anyway so with never a t.v. . The challenge for Miles Davis was to do. We're talking to quest love about his new book mixtape pot luck and be very interesting recipes and you know even if it is cool to go like hey here's someone like I think my Rudolph is hysterical I had bigger work and so when you go there's also the interest of well what kind of recipe are they submitting so when I saw the chocolate chili I'm like Dude dude I feel like it has to be good but at 1st you gotta go no way but then you got to do it that's her chocolate chili is probably my 2nd favorite. Contribution. It was wow and I was no doubt I was see I was afraid I wanted to ask you at some point what your favorite recipe is but I figured you wouldn't play favorites but you revealed number 2 so that's when you know I'll never reveal number one you know. That's totally fine so this is no joke if you wanted to you would not be disappointed if you like Chile not Cincinnati chili but just regular chili this is this is your John. While you were from the Midwest straight the state of about and. I love I love the taste I love the contrast of it that's cool and it's one of the it's one of the it is very where I just saw my boss Jimmy Fallon just walked by like. Like what are you doing here you wait while you were. In New York Yes What do you do when they're both of us have books coming out the same time so it's kind of weird in my bosses. Studio. Like yeah. Yeah it was very weird the strange things that happened during an interview with Quest Love you picked up a song from my add that I thought I figured maybe her mom many repartee but you went in a completely different direction with Muddy Waters Harper's Free Press news. a very different version of money than I expected. There's another track that we've got and this one I mean it's personal tear friend of yours it will throw some Lambert Hendricks and Ross here on World Cafe. You didn't see. Me. In that big. Just. Nothing on the. You said he is a better chef an artist and considering he dropped perhaps one of the greatest freestyles in human history less than 2 years ago I find this hard to believe how good of a chef is Black Thought. I had I say it every time that I feel like it's imposter syndrome because that's how to read says one of those people. I don't know if you call it o.c.d. Or whatever but he's as one of those people that has to excel past the standard of what we consider to be acceptable and whatever he does and. I will say that as far as his cooking is concerned I would put him up against any grandmother any old grandmother recipe any including yours yourself. He matches that in a massive thing like be the true Lost Art of really good Southern downhome Sunday dinners that I had at my grandmother's house every week. Just thinking about myself. Not your grandmother's house because I was never invited but my grandmother . She never really has not helped most unhealthy food but man the most like it's like oh come on into it yeah it's the most loving to it yes exactly yeah it's Ok for days for like Sunday foods at my house or. At my grandmother's house was it was always an event that's why I like Thanksgiving I mean we get that now but imagine Thanksgiving every Sunday. That's that's what it was in my grandmother's household when I was living there when my parents were on the road traveling talking to Quest live here about a brand new book is available now talking talking mixtape potluck and going in a completely different direction from Soul Food. You know sides and salads they can you can have that in a public can be healthy but showing cucumber salad sounds delightful Zooey Deschanel Pictet Why did you pick Princess joint to joint for Zoe. Shows that because. He was a fan of her show The New Girl and guested on it and. I figured that's that's that's a nap song you are beautiful Let's listen to a bit of it. A week which. I'd also add that I'm. Very closely guarded Prince community. Often frowns when I make public statements about how his 1st 10 years to me were you know the only years that counts I wanted those music snob so I wanted to go out out of my comfort zone and acknowledge work between 19882015 as well when you rank those records too didn't you I think you did an article where you had to which it did you know talk about killing your darlings and then picking favorites only. At the time when he passed I mean there were just a lot of people hit me on social media like Ok we need to. Be mean this not to help guide us through this and. You know you I mean you can discover even m.s.n. Thing I'm not one of those prints experts that will suddenly you know. What he call it and. People to sort of get revisionist history you know they always I could tell when I went to Prince revisits fan that is am I missed because they always make too much of the dirty mind album like yeah I was doing I was down with the you know like I've only heard uptown on radio once during that period like I don't think he made a record in 1980 and so I discovered dirty mind after I had to do some cleanup you know after Purple Rain and was like Oh Ok I missed this record and I didn't hear anything but I bet you I bet you hear let's play a little bit of it I bet you 90 percent of my audience does not know what this is. His impression is perfect isn't it that's like when it's my favorite thing yeah I love his preaching more than anything it's really great. Talking to quest love about his new book mixtape potluck air fried chicken burgers for a guy who likes burgers I find I'm just a little let down because I want to know what like the Fallon a plus burger is but I'm sure he's maybe that's part 2 No dude there's there's only one recipe had to be left off maybe because it was kind of illegal. To put weed in it. Yeah. There is a growing contributor that insisted that you know we might have to use a horse Oh no. I know I know you from down south and you know this is how you guys traditionally did it. We can put this in the boat. That is Quest love talking about his brand new book mixtape pot luck a collection of recipes from his friends that he pairs with songs and coming up a very special surprise that I did not expect it all with Quest Love when we get back to World Cafe support for j p r comes from our listeners and from the bell Union in Jacksonville the bell Union is known throughout the Rogue Valley for its diverse menu featuring local ingredients fresh seafood creative pasta dishes and pizzas served indoors or on the patio home to live music every Thursday Friday and Saturday the bell also features a full bar with an extensive wine list and craft beers on tap more at Value dot com . Thank you for listening to j p r to stay abreast of current events did you know we also offer Jeff not a noncommercial Internet service provider that gives you direct online access to global news and information sports entertainment and more Jeff net is the only i.s.p. That directly supports j p r and helps us bring public radio to southern Oregon and Northern California you have a choice of Internet providers to choose Jeff visit Jeff net dot org or call 866 Jeff net. Welcome back to the world Cathay I am Calais Oh we're talking to Quest Love of The Roots and The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon his latest book is mixtape pot luck which was inspired by the food salon dinner parties he threw and a collection of recipes from his friends alongside each recipe Quest selecting a song to inspire each guest to cook let's get back into it because he's inspired me to cook there's one recipe that I have the ingredients for I am ready to make this weekend and it comes from the after the after party late night snacks I'm not ashamed to admit it Q-Tips mac n cheese How good is it Ok I'm not saying that that's my number one recipe but it's definitely in my top 5. Then I feel it's in my top 3. And you already know what numbers it's either one or 3. Seriously it's. Up there it's very it's in my top 2 my top 2 that's all I can say to myself How did you know I'm going to be listening to other interviews with You were other recipes make the top 2 No kidding though I've been gone I've been very kind I'm one of those people that very consistent in his interviews and I will say that you know mac and cheese is well actually well then you want to play a little bit of what we. Can you throw that up for us. A rare case we need to actually use a person's song with their life what their status so that was one. That you tried to avoid doing that but you can't help when the tribe has so many good songs about food. But I can't. Take. Applesauce in some nice red beets. Talking to quest love here about mixtape potluck is there a song and is there a song that you were particularly happy to connect with a celebrity that it's like that this has been my opportunity to sign a song to you. I will say that. In the beginning it was weird because for me my favorite song about food was always James Brown's make it funky but I almost feel like that's a little too. That's a little too obvious he randomly starts just doing a litany of. List of his favorite dishes in like like the 3 minute mark of the song. This song is like the complete song is like 1112 minutes and so. You put it on right after his look right after it you got to go back like 45 seconds to really get to the to the heart of what a true let's let's rewind and let's let's rewind Let's pull up about 30 seconds so people can hear what's going on here we want to hear some of the James Brown's call that's exactly. Right. Oh it is you all right so yes Jimi you know if you just talk about their burgers a politician now man I feel like you feel like a philosopher a man that's you know you can He was me I guess you could look at it like from an optimistic where cynical and I thought read that is a beautifully optimistic hopeful comment the new book is mixtape pot luck it's available now is there a root song from things fall apart we'd love to go out with the one of your songs since you've been nice in sharing all of these great artists anything from things fall apart that we would like and that you'd like to go out with I will say that you know I have nothing but love my heart for my mentor j. Dilla So you know I think we should go with dynamite one of my favorite songs to make one things well part beautiful the new book is mixtape pot luck you can catch Quest Love in the roots nightly on The Tonight Show on n.b.c. Thanks so much Quest thank you so much I appreciate your. Kind of I think. It's fair. To. Think it's. Like. The mix is that. If you. Wait till. People want to see the way to play. With us. Back in the. Good dynamite from the Roots album things fall apart celebrating its 20th anniversary Quest loves new book is called mixtape pot luck and you should definitely check it out thanks so much for listening will be back in a moment on the world Cathay. Support for j p r comes from Him Wm countertops in Wm countertops has been providing countertops for over 20 years with custom installations of granite quartz acrylic and laminate for any size job but countertops need cabinets and now him Wm also offers a full range of cabinet styles short lead times and full design service for your next project more information at m.w. In countertops dot com or 6086145 j p r is a community service of southern Oregon University Southern Oregon University is a place where students connect with professors directly where classes are small and where a caring learning community is committed to the success of every student learn more at a so you. Welcome back to World café Well I'm kind of in shock I'm collab thanks so much to quest blup Tonight Show and The Roots his new book is mixed a pot luck and thanks to Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show one of the few times a person can walk into another person's interview unannounced and the host aka me doesn't get upset we get excited like one in 10 people in the world who can do that and finally Thanks so much to our producer John Myers for his work at it now let's get back into music with the band The Roots adore they actually wanted the Tonight Show gig so they could meet Elvis Costello and pitch him on an album which they did it's the roots with Elvis Costello Walk Us Uptown. Yeah. Who's. Who's. Who's. Who's. I know. You're. Poor. Who's. Who who's. Who's. Sleep. In the front of a false room full of mixed signals like. Postpone the whole event in the. Book a solo way to go with the sledge and was told the songs made it so that let's . Go some way to give it some light and when I left my my son was an example of a t.v. Show thinking that's never gonna cancel it for me learning how to be good always a pleasure to be with the feeling that the training we can coupled with a single so close to the front. Of the polls or speech was never let somebody walk the walk. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow slow slow slow play one month trial run Yes I'm nervous show signs of success let's try it because on the definition. Any tragedy to try and get a meeting set up. Really more like me. But the one down like the movie is. Like it. Is so. Like a lot of. Those which. Will be over the top was. Read to me. To read what a. Great game was great. To make the things. Of 3 excellent Quest love drumming performances the roots with the fire before that D'Angelo chicken grease and with Elvis Costello and the rest of the roots walk up town putting the wraps on this edition of the café thanks so much to our guest Quest Love and thanks very much to our. Spec'd did special guest Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show Oh did you miss that you can check it out on our podcast at World Cafe words and music we produced this show from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Contributing host thanks so much for listening to the World Cafe. 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