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Clips from Top Chef - Friday Night Bites (S19E19)

"MONIQUE: Does tailgating count?"
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"Hey, Jo, how are you?"
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"JO: Good. Just getting my base going here"
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"to get my congee rolling. I'm making a barley congee"
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"with a mushroom green pepper tamari."
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"When I was growing up,"
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"we used to have congee all the time."
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"It was, just like, a really filling thing."
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"I feel like that's what my mom always fed me"
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"right before we did tests. I'm 100% Chinese,"
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"but my parents grew up in the Philippines."
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"So, we're ethnically Chinese, culturally Filipino."
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"Cooking for Jonathan Waxman,"
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"it was all California Italian."
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"It wasn't, really, until recently that I started"
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"to sort of meld my worlds together."
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"Hey dude, what're you doing?"
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"At the moment right now,"
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"I'm cutting up the butternut squash."
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"I'm gonna get in the bag and confit it"
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"-with some walnut oil. -JO: Nice."
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"What was your strategy when making your taco?"
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"For the last year, I've been, like,"
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"working out five times a week."
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"And I've, like, lost 80 pounds."
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"And this is one thing that I, like, love to eat."
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"It's just, like, a taco after a hard workout."
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"Nice."
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"And like, that's what I want to go for."
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"-Let's go, Wildcats. Let's go! -Cougars!"
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"Let's go, Wildcats, let's go!"
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"Cougars!"
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"TOM: Hey, Wildcats."
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"Hi, chef!"
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"You guys gonna carb load us tonight?"
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"-That's the plan. -TOM: So what's the strategy?"
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"Win every one. A full sweep."
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"That's a good strategy. What's happening?"
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"SARAH: I'm just trying to do chickpea"
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"a bunch of different ways."
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"Crispy chickpeas, garbanzo beans, marinated garbanzos."
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"And then hopefully some sort of chickpea flatbread"
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"but I've never made socca before,"
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"so we'll see if it works."
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"Coach, let me ask you a question."
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"I mean, she's never made this before"
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"but she's making it now. Good idea?"
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"DAWN: I do it all the time."
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"I make stuff up I've never made all the time."
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"I do it all the time when the clock's not running."
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"Coming at me, bro."
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"Anyways."
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"Okay. All right. What's going on over here?"
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"This is the start of a sticky rice cake."
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"BROOKE: So, you're makin' dessert."
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"Yes. So, the caramel's going to just caramelize"
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"on top of the sticky rice when it's done cooking."
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"Even though I am savory trained,"
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"I own a pastry business called Tarts de Feybesse."
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"So, this is a thing that I learned from my grandparents."
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"This dish is called biko."
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"This is so thick."
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"I want this dish to show my culture."
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"From a strategic point,"
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"do you want to go dessert against dessert?"
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"Or do you want to go to dessert against the savory?"
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"I would personally want to go against the dessert."
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"Got it."
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"So, I heard you won the Quickfire."
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"DAMARR: I did, Chef."
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"TOM: You should be out there, like,"
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"playing ball or something in the field."
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"BROOKE: No he shouldn't. He should care"
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"just as much as everyone else--"
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"-DAMARR: Stay focused on-- -Yes, absolutely."
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"I'm gonna cook dirty farro,"
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"which is kind of a ode to dirty rice my mom used to make."
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"Oh, okay."
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"Give yourself enough time to cook that farro."
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"DAMARR: Yes, chef."
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"[Damarr humming]"
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"My mother was a single parent. I was the only child."
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"She had a stroke when I was around 15."
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"You know, my mom was kind of like Superwoman"
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"so I was, kind of like, in disbelief."
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"One day, she was fine,"
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"and the next day, she didn't remember who we were."
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"So, her cooking stint is pretty much over"
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"for the most part."
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"So, one of my favorite things she'd make was dirty rice."
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"Just a really great food memory of mine."
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"-TOM: Hello, Cougars! -BROOKE: Hi, Cougars!"
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"TOM: What're you makin' over there?"
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"Mine's a starch."
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"My starch is rice noodles 'cause I knew"
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"everyone was going to be doing grains and stuff."
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"We're going for fresh, light."
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"You wanna feel good after you eat it."
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"TOM: Got it. What do we have here?"
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"NICK: So this is a potato potlikker."
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"I'm using pig necks for the broth."
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"I don't know what that expression was,"
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"but I'll tell you what,"
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"every time, it amazes me about Tom."
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"He's the Man of Mystery."
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"He's uh, yeah, he is."
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"TOM: What's going on over here?"
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"I am making feijoada."
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"-Okay. -A Brazilian bean stew."
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"Okay."
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"I'm going to serve it with orange radish-cilantro salad"
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"and a little toasted cassava flour."
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"-Where are you from? -I'm from North Dakota."
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"-BROOKE: Perfect. -Yeah."
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"First ever contestant from North Dakota."
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"-Is that true? -I mean,"
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"even if you were guessing,"
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"-it's a pretty good chance-- -It's a pretty good guess."
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"When my husband and I moved back to Bismarck,"
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"we knew that there wasn't any James Beard nominations there"
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