In 2016, Prinze joined the ranks of celebrity cookbook authors. Prinze has been living the dream, as he is married to another 2000s star and his former co-star, Sarah Michelle Gellar. They met on the set of “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and got together in 2002, as per Us Weekly. The pair have been together for over 15 years, and together they’ve made their long-time culinary aspirations real.
Prinze Jr. grew up valuing time in the kitchen, telling CBS News in 2017, “My mother worked in restaurants her whole life. That’s where she met my father, at a comedy club in Reno, Nevada. She was the chef there.” He went on to say “My cookbook is about saving time … Everything is nine ingredients or less and two of those ingredients are salt and pepper so that doesn’t count. I try to make everything very simple.”
In a 2020 interview with The Kitchn, he said that cooking was his fallback. “When I graduated high school my mom encouraged (okay, “forced”) me to attend cooking school as a backup plan to my acting ambitions. I was all set to go to Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Pasadena when I got my first real acting gig — and the rest is history. But I never stopped loving good food or cooking.”
