little different word in my kitchen in my home in our home shawn and i think our special guest is curtis stone the author of what's for dinner it's a new york times best seller welcome to our house we're going to begin with a cocktail now i don't undergo a little red wine i don't get caught what what is a brown bowl in the us to make sure that i think i have been behind you might like interest what i thought i'd do is do a really simple gin cocktail so it's gin and brandel is actually comes from the u.k. it's an old style cocktail and you can give it a little twist in this is going to bit of key come by mean and and cryptic is a switch is a black count with you know about three or four put your way that's right and. so what i'm going to get is first models i mean gradient size of a little bit of a cucumber which i have to sliced up and just a handful of blueberries and low bluebirds good to good now i sort of think with of course these measurements or this stuff but i do think when you're making a cocktail each time you make it you want to make it a little different because sometimes you might

sam sucks and don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight a special guest as curtis stone celebrity chef and author he'll be cooking with larry king and also talk about the world of cuisine so you don't want to miss it until then take it easy. well. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. says he's a culmination of globalization and. nowhere else in the world a conflict so strongly concentrated as.

but first, curtis stone is a chef, best-selling author, and tv personality best-known as host of "topes cry? is there a secret to that yet? >> even real men cry. >> carson: speak for yourself. ♪ curtis, congratulations on this, my friend. this is awesome. >> thank you so much. >> carson: what was your motivation? like, what was your angle this time around for "what's for dinner?" >> so, i mean i guess i've been out of a restaurant now for some time. you know? i spent all of my life in restaurants up until, you know, ten years ago. and since being in the states, i've been cooking with people in their homes and i think really developing a true understanding for what home cooks are faced with every night of the week. which is getting their family dinner on the table, which you know, hopefully is healthy and quick and easy. so, i sort of started to characterize some of those challenges that we're faced with when we try and feed our family and, you know, some relate to time, some relate to money. you know, ease of preparation, getting the family together, being healthy. and the more i thou

stone catalog. we bought some rock classics-- "people get ready" by curtis mayfield, dion and the belmonts' "runaroundreat balls of fire," "shake, rattle, and roll." but then, one day, i got the call that the beatles catalog was for sale. it was called a.t.v. music, and it was as if we had hit the mother lode. >> logan: and you paid? >> branca: the price was $47.5 million, and we later merged it with sony's music publishing company to create one of the biggest publishers in the world, sony/a.t.v. music, that the estate, to this day, owns 50% of. >> logan: and so, how much is that worth today? >> branca: i... i wouldn't want to speculate about what it's worth, but it... >> logan: come on, john. ( laughs ) you didn't... >> branca: it's... >> logan: you didn't make all this money in this town without knowing what your investments are worth. ( laughs ) >> branca: well, it would be speculation at this point. >> logan: it's estimated to be worth, like, a billion dollars. >> branca: michael's half? >> logan: yes. >> branca: well, you know, you never really know what something's worth until you go to sell it,