Al Roker

Rachael Ray: You have the best-looking refrigerator we've ever featured. It's an absolute stunner—I love the glass door.

Al Roker: I love my refrigerator.

RR: I also must say, kudos on all the food prep—everything's sliced and in baggies. Do you do that? I know your wife, Deborah [Roberts], doesn't love to cook.

AR: That's putting it kindly. Yeah, I'm the cook. We try to eat at home four or five days a week.

RR: That's got to be hard but so worth it for the kids.

AR: Tuesday nights are sushi nights, so we go out then. The new thing is ishiyaki, where they bring out razor-thin chicken breast and a hot rock—like a Japanese grill—and cook on that.

RR: So fun. What does the family do when you're out of town?

AR: When I was in Italy for the Olympics, I ordered groceries for them from FreshDirect on the Internet. I love technology.

RR: What a great dad! Do you remember the first meal you ever made for Deborah?

AR: Baby lamb chops with a hoisin glaze, with haricots verts and roasted fingerling potatoes.

RR: Fabulous. And then it was a done deal?

AR: It's actually a funny story. She was away covering the Olympics. We were just friends, and I was trying to break that friend barrier. She asked me to check in on her apartment, and you know, most guys would have gone through the underwear drawer, but I snooped in the fridge. There was a bottle of champagne, a jar of Grey Poupon and some cheese. So then I opened the oven and I thought, This is weird—who wraps their oven racks with cardboard?

RR: It was untouched?

AR: She had never used the oven. So a day before she got back, I stocked her fridge and left flowers on the table with a note. Then we went out on a date. It all worked out.

RR: Awesome. Fun party question: Who would you invite over for dinner, someone you haven't had over already?

AR: Those are my husband's. He's a chocoholic. The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.

RR: With three kids, I can't imagine you have time for dinner parties, but if you could have anyone, living or dead, to dinner, who would you invite?

AR: I would have Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld—and Oprah. I've been at parties with her, but I'd love to just sit down with her.

RR: She's such an icon, so I think people think of her as very serious, but she is just plain fun!

AR: Oh, and Deborah wanted me to tell you that whenever we?re cooking, our daughter Leila says, &dquo;You know, Mom, Rachael says we have to have our garbage pail nearby.&dquo;

RR: Good girl! You need the garbage bowl on the counter!

AR: Yep, that's my girl.

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