You’ll soon be able to cook over 150 chili recipes recommended by The Office’s Kevin Malone… Just make sure not to spill it all over the floor.
Available for preorder now on Amazon, the new Seriously Good Chili cookbook has 177 chili recipes hand-picked by Brian Baumgartner, the actor who played Kevin Malone on NBC’s The Office. On Instagram, Baumgartner posted a video of him unboxing the cookbook, saying it will be available this September.
As for the recipes themselves, they come from famous chefs, food bloggers, and celebrities. The book also includes a foreword written by The Office’s Oscar Nunez, and a behind-the-scenes look at the iconic chili scene from The Office.
Kevin’s famous chili appears in Season 5, Episode 26’s cold open, when Kevin is very excited about his annual tradition of bringing a pot of his famous chili to the office. The character even proclaims, “It’s probably the thing I do best.” The cold open ends with Kevin dropping the pot and spilling chili all over the floor of the office, in a scene you’ve probably seen countless times on social media.
Earlier this year, a Peacock subscriber discovered that the streaming service hid Kevin’s famous chili recipe within Peacock’s terms of service. So, you can recreate the entire original recipe without the new cookbook.
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Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.