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

"I have felt amazing before a challenge and not done well."
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"And I've also felt not so great about challenges"
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"and I've done really well too."
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"My mom always prepares some sort of rice dish"
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"when she wants everyone to feel comforted."
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"I'm going to make this Low Country crab rice"
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"along with my mom's oyster gravy."
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"She is the gravy queen."
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"I mean, it's going to be an exciting one."
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"We got all that inspiration beforehand."
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"BUDDHA: Fifteen minutes."
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"EVELYN: I'm making a sope."
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"It's something that my grandma used to make for me a lot."
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"So, I'm just trying to honor her and then also honor my mom."
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"I'm making chorizo the way she taught me how to make it."
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"JAE: Yeah, I would love to try your chorizo."
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"Yes, I'm so excited."
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"For all of us,"
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"this challenge is extremely a personal one."
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"Six minutes!"
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"It's been 12 years since I left Korea."
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"I miss my home,"
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"but I can feel their support and love."
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"I hope that through my dish,"
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"the message can deliver to the judges."
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"ASHLEIGH: $494.83. I did it."
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"♪♪♪"
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"[indistinct chatter]"
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"[sizzling]"
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"EVELYN: Get these beans cooking."
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"Don't you think it's cool"
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"that we're able to raise money cooking for this fundraiser?"
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"I think it's absolutely incredible."
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"I always say food is community."
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"When I think of what a Top Chef is, absolutely,"
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"it's technique, it's flavor,"
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"but it's also being able to connect with your community."
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"So much to do and so little time."
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"Wow, we are all different. Food brings us all together."
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"And that's why chefs have to start seeing themselves"
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"as community leaders."
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"-Forty-five minutes. -LUKE: Yeah."
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"BUDDHA: What does soul food mean to you?"
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"It's something that is cooked"
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"with everything that you have, basically your soul."
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"So, I'm making a version of my mom's meatloaf."
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"It's something that my mom always makes"
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"every time I came back from Europe."
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"It's like my absolute comfort food from home."
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"My mom really liked cooking."
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"I was an extremely picky eater as a kid."
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"She made a deal with me"
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"that if I didn't like any of the food that she made,"
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"as long as I tried it, I never had to eat that again."
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"I mean, I'm going to try to elevate it"
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"to see if I can make it as good as my mom, you know?"
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"That's the idea of today,"
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"putting love into the food."
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"I feel my dad's always with me"
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"with-- with all the challenges."
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"But this one, even more so."
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"It's a dish that we had together"
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"before he recently passed away."
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"[somber music]"
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"Battling stage four cancer was the worst."
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"The last day that I actually got to spend with him,"
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"I was crying my eyes off"
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"because I knew it was the last time"
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"I was going to hug him"
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"and he was just telling me not to cry."
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"This is a guy that he was."
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"He didn't want me to have any wasted moment."
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"Cooking from the heart. That's how my dad used to say things."
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"That's why he was really successful,"
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"because every time he cooked for someone,"
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"not just family, all of his customers,"
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"he cooked with love."
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"The week my dad passed away,"
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"I got the phone call to come on to Top Chef."
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"I never got to tell him,"
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"but I feel like that was a departing gift from him."
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"I know I can win Top Chef. I'm going to win it for him."
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"ASHLEIGH: Jae, how's that cod looking over there?"
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"Oh, cod looks like a cod. Thank you."
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"In Korea, we cook whole fish."
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"And as a child,"
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"my mom used to debone the fish for me"
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"and put it on my spoon."
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"I'm making Korean sweet potato puree."
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"With my dish,"
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"I want to create the moment"
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"of a Korean baby eating fish. [chuckles]"
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"[singing]"
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"Cooking a whole mess of collard greens with ham hocks."
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"I'm gonna do some hoecakes as well to kind of sop that up."
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"Slaves would mix cornmeal with water."
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"They would heat the blade of the garden tool"
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"we know as a hoe."
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"Cook corn cakes on that blade."
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"So, I think that all the ingenuity"
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"that it took to build Freedmen's Town"
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"resonates with these hoecakes."
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"Trying to represent, you know what I mean?"
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"Putting these two things together"
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"is a perfect marriage of storytelling."
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"JAE: Twenty minutes."
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"My brows are burning."
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"LUKE: I don't think I can feel my hands anymore, it's so cold."
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"But I got to keep going."
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"I'm gonna shape up the salmon cakes tomorrow."
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"EVELYN: I need to puree those beets."
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"[Jae exclaiming]"
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"This challenge"
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"is a lot of pressure."
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"Struggle is real here."
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"This is not just about cooking for the judges."
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"There will be 100 guests"
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"raising a fund to rebuild the community."
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"Everybody packed up?"
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"-Ready. -Let's go."
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