Sunny Hostin has so many meals and snacks that hold a special place in her heart.
During the filming of The viewThe 55-year-old host can’t keep her hands off a bag of Funyuns, much to the chagrin of her co-hosts.
“My co-hosts at The view make fun of me, but I eat Funyuns,” Hostin reveals exclusively in the latest issue of We weekly while promoting her new Ama’s Blend Rosé. “I find it kind of weird, but I eat Funyuns. It’s not good for your breath, so I use peppermint.”
Hostin enjoys the onion ring chips—a favorite snack from her childhood—best when she dips them in hot sauce, which earns her some strange looks on set.
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“Ana Navarrois right next door and she just looks at me and says something like, “Are you eating that again?” “I am,” she teases.
In addition to her great love of funyuns, Hostin also greatly appreciates her mother’s home cooking, which includes many authentic Puerto Rican dishes. The TV personality is an avid lover of orzo con calamari (rice and calamari) and alcapurrias, a type of fritter.
“It’s made with cassava and it’s like a doughnut and you can put anything in it. You can put crab meat in it, you can put beef in it, you can put chicken in it,” explains Hostin. “My mother still makes it for me on my birthday.”
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ABC/Lou RoccoAnother dish that particularly touches Sunny is the starter she shared with her husband. Emmanuel Hostinon one of their very first dates.
“When we started dating, we started going to the movies on Friday nights. We would drink margaritas and watch the movie and go to Mexican restaurants for dinner,” she says. Us“We would try every single Mexican restaurant near us.”
At the time, Sunny and Emmanuel, who have been married for 25 years, had just completed their law and medical studies. As the duo began their careers, they were looking for cheaper options for evenings out.
“We were both kind of civil servants who didn’t make a lot of money, but there were Taco Tuesdays, not Taco Fridays,” she says. “So sometimes our date was Tuesday and we would drink margaritas and eat tacos. That was our thing.”
If Sunny could only choose one dish to finish off the meal, she would undoubtedly choose a lobster roll, specifically one from Nancy’s Restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard.
“I would probably eat about four of these if I was on the Vineyard, where my first book (Summer on the cliffs),” she reflects. “It’s my first stop when I get off the ferry. I’ll get a lobster roll.”
Sunny must have a glass of wine with her lobster roll. She adds that her new Ama’s Blend Rosé goes “really well” with the shellfish sandwich. Sunny was inspired to write her Summer on the cliffs Novel series – the mixture is even named after the main character of the book.
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“I really didn’t know much about winemaking. Now I know a lot more. It’s actually not that easy,” she says Us“I went to Bel Gloss and visited the owner there, which was just incredible. And in making this wine, I really made the wine. I tried different blends and mixed different things and actually asked for very little sugar because a lot of rosés have too much sugar. I wanted something dry.”
Sunny says she wanted the wine to reflect Ama and added some personal touches to the process. She used her own handwriting on the bottle label and wrote a special message for her customers.
“If you turn the label over, it says, ‘I hope you enjoy Cher,’ which (Ama) uses as shorthand for Cheri because she’s from New Orleans,” she explains. “And so it’s really all about summer, summer reads for the beach and my dream of hopefully owning a vineyard in France one day.”
Ama’s Blend costs $30 and is available for purchase now on Sunny’s website.
For more information about Sunny, see the video above and the latest issue of We weeklywhich now includes 12 additional pages, is now available for sale.
With report by Christina Garibaldi
