First it was chefs becoming celebrities. Now it seems it’s celebrities becoming chefs – or, at least, cookbook authors.

Best remembered for looking pretty in films like She’s All That and I Know What You Did Last Summer, Freddie Prinze, Jr. has now joined the ranks of Kris Jenner, Trisha Yearwood and Gwyneth Paltrow – not to mention Sammy Hagar, Stanley Tucci, Tony Danza and about a thousand others we can think of – with the recent release of Back to the Kitchen, which is a rather confusing title given we didn’t know that he’d been in the kitchen in the first place.

As it turns out, however, 40-year-old Prinze, Jr. is a foodie from way back.

“I’ve always cooked for actors I’ve been lonely on location with,” he said in an interview with Bon Appétit Magazine. “And I’d always become friends with the chefs in the cities we shot in. After enough people asked for recipes, it felt like the right time to put 20 years of stories in this business into a cookbook.”

“I actually once made lobster with sauce that changed an actress completely,” he told the magazine. “She fell in love with me to the point that it was creepy. That’s in the cookbook, too.”

Whether or not Prinze, Jr. was talking about his wife of 14 years and occasional co-star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, was unclear, though it seems safe to assume that it probably wasn’t (unless she’s cool with him calling her “creepy” to interviewers, which seems, well, kind of creepy).

“He is so incredibly passionate about both food and the chemistry involved in creating flavours,” Gellar writes in the book’s foreword. “I truly believe what makes his food so special is the little bit of him he puts in every meal.”

“And then it happened. I started to see Freddie writing things down as he cooked (something he had never done before), and I knew he had begun the journey.”

The journey back to the kitchen, presumably.

After starring together in 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, Prinze, Jr. and Gellar went on to co-star in 2002’s Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed two years later. One rather wonders if there’s Scooby Snacks among the cookbook’s 75 recipes, which otherwise draw on Prinze, Jr.’s Puerto Rican heritage, childhood in New Mexico and life as a 1990s teen heartthrob.

Watch out, Miss Goop. You’ve got competition now.