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Clips from Top Chef - Freedmen's Town (S19E19)

"The objective is figuring out"
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"how I can make these ingredients all sing together."
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"How fast can I cook these lentils?"
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"♪♪♪"
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"-I love this black garlic. -DAMARR: Yeah."
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"I'm thinking of making a soup with eggplant and some beans."
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"Unfortunately, most black vegetables"
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"are black on the outside,"
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"but inside tend to have a white flesh."
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"It's going to be very hard to create a black colored dish"
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"without using any kind of powder or squid ink."
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"Nick got orange."
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"Like, sweet potatoes, is that even fair?"
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"I feel great about vegetables."
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"I'm going to do some roasted broccoli steaks,"
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"a little harissa glaze, and then definitely be a lot"
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"of green herbs in my dish."
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"Fifteen minutes."
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"When you're making steak,"
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"you would traditionally have some sort of sauce."
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"So, I have a broccoli steak"
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"with the sauce being the puree of avocado"
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"and the chimichurri being the chermoula,"
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"which is a Moroccan-style sauce"
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"that they put on meat, fish and vegetables."
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"♪♪♪"
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"[tense music]"
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"Thankfully, I got the white color."
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"Cauliflower and cheese, very classical combination."
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"Cauliflower and cheese can be quite heavy,"
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"so it's important to introduce acidic flavors into the dish"
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"and that's going to be pickling different vegetables"
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"that I'll be putting on the plate."
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"In restaurants, it's 80% meat."
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"It's very exciting to work with vegetables."
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"I love cooking with vegetables."
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"I've definitely cooked a cauliflower"
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"like this before at Noma"
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"and it's really hard to beat,"
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"so I'm going to roast a cauliflower in butter,"
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"then I'm going to throw in lots of fresh herbs--"
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"sage, thyme, rosemary."
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"I think it's a very important one to win,"
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"especially because I haven't done very well"
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"in these Quickfires, you know."
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"If you win this Quickfire, you get the last immunity."
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"Anybody would want to have that."
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"And, you know, I feel a little bit more in my element."
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"I'm just having a lot of fun."
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"-Sorry. -Whoa, aye--"
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"I didn't know you were coming back that quick."
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"BUDDHA: Come on, Luke."
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"Come on. There we go."
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"This challenge is dear to my heart."
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"I started a non-profit"
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"going into public schools in Jackson, Mississippi"
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"just to encourage kids to eat more vegetables."
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"Fried rice is a great way to get kids to eat veggies."
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"Coming through. Hot."
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"Chefs, you have five minutes."
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"-Eh. -At the last minute,"
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"I, like, find myself trying to add something a little sweet,"
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"and I've got these yellow peaches which are freeze-dried,"
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"so they're adding this crispy component."
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"[suspenseful music]"
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"JAE: Behind you."
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"One minute."
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"♪♪♪"
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"Time's up."
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"[sighs]"
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"Let's start with you, Buddha."
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"-Thank you, chef. -You're welcome."
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"-I love a good hot plate. -Thank you."
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"So, it's cauliflower and cheese"
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"with vadouvan and salted grapes."
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"How did you treat the roasted cauliflower?"
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"I wood-fire roasted it"
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"with some butter, garlic and thyme."
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"Mm. Very nice."
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"I have roasted cauliflower with cabbage"
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"and purple potato puree with brown butter carrots."
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"PADMA: Did you enjoy this challenge?"
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"I absolutely enjoyed this challenge."
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"It shows. Great. Thank you."
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"I made curried vegetable puree"
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"with marinated curried vegetables."
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"NYESHA: What do you have in your puree?"
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"Maitake mushrooms, yellow cauliflower,"
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"and there's some lentils in there."
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"-What are the crunchy bits? -Freeze-dried yellow peach."
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"I tried to find as much yellow as I could find"
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"and just make it taste good."
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"Thank you."
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"Nice."
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"I did a harissa glazed broccoli with a chermoula"
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"that has hazelnuts and Romanesco shaved inside it,"
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"and there's an avocado puree underneath."
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"There's so much brightness and acidity coming off"
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"this sort of salsa that you have on top here."
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"-Thank you. -You guys are really doing well."
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"Making our jobs harder."
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"I made 20-minute strawberry gochujang glazed beets"
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"-and walnut puree. -Mm."
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"This is a vegetable fried rice."
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"I did a kumquat and peach hot sauce,"
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"some charred papayas,"
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"pumpkin and some charred orange cauliflower."
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"You used pumpkin?"
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"I used pumpkin, sweet potato"
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"and also cauliflower for the rice."
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"-Thank you. -Thank you."
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"-PADMA: Ooh. -Gorgeous."
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"I've made a charred eggplant and black bean soup"
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"with black lemon and black garlic."
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"And on top we have a dill yogurt"
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"and a black radish and walnut crumble."
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"-It's delicious. -Thank you."
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"-Thank you, Evelyn. -Thank you."
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"Good job."
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"Wow, my palate is blown away."
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