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

"LUKE: Let's get out of here."
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"[rock music]"
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"[calm music]"
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"Finally."
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"-LUKE: All right. Let's do this. -NICK: Here we go."
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"♪♪♪"
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"I'm cooking with feel today."
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"I don't want to say that this challenge"
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"is easy because they never are."
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"But this is a dish that I've made"
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"and that I love. I feel really good about it"
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"and I'm proud of it."
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"And I think that the community will be, too."
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"Ashleigh, what do you have to do before service?"
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"My red rice, pick through some crab,"
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"and put my soul into a dish."
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"DAMARR: What are you getting started?"
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"I'm adding soy bean paste."
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"Soy bean paste is really important to Korean culture."
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"Creating a dish that is inspired by my mom,"
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"it makes me very emotional."
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"How is it tasting over there, Jae?"
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"Just melting in my mouth."
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"-One hour, chefs. -One hour."
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"How much stuff do you have on your plate for today?"
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"I scrapped my whole entire idea"
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"and I'm going to do it all from scratch again."
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"NICK: You're going to do it all from scratch again?"
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"No, I've just got to season the potatoes"
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"and start forming my mom's meatloaf."
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"ASHLEIGH: Buddha, how does your curry taste?"
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"I actually really miss this. I haven't had this in a while."
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"This curry is a Malaysian dish."
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"It's got a pretty predominant flavor and clove and cinnamon,"
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"and it just packs a punch."
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"ASHLEIGH: What would your grandmother say"
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"if she tasted that curry, Buddha?"
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"I think she'd love it."
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"If you made it this far in your cheffing career,"
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"you definitely cook from the soul."
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"The pressure is, "Have I done enough?""
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"Yum."
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"I got to start cooking oat cakes"
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"because that takes a while."
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"Okay, 40. Yay."
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"I made the dough from Maseca."
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"I've added beet puree to make them nice and pink."
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"This beet sope is like a nod to my grandma."
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"She passed last year,"
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"but she would always get done up"
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"even for the simplest tasks."
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"I dyed her hair, like, every few months"
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"to not let those grays show."
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"We're normally rolling by hand but, you know, time restraints."
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"-Yeah. -And then you sear both sides,"
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"pinch the corners to make it like a little bowl."
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"So, definitely a lot of technique behind this."
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"DAMARR: That's awesome."
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"Everybody is really pulling"
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"from their grandmas, their moms."
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"I decided to cook this dish"
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"'cause it's something my grandmother cooked a lot."
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"My mom used to cook the whole fish all the time."
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"She's definitely a tiger mom."
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"[Damarr laughs]"
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"EVELYN: I feel like as a chef, you know,"
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"it's kind of our job to educate those"
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"about our history and our culture."
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"My dad is from the Low Country"
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"and I mean, for me,"
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"I didn't realize how meaningful that was."
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"Preserving our foodways,"
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"ensuring that those things don't die."
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"I think it's really going to be a hard one"
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"because we're all really cooking from our soul,"
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"which is like, how can you, like, judge that? [sniffles]"
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"Damn, Nick."
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"That's Grandma there, man."
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"That is Grandma Nana."
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"Such a good woman, too. Makes you almost want"
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"to shed a tear."
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"Forty-one minutes."
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"[intense music]"
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"My plan is to give guests one frikadelle"
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"so that way it kind of will represent a little bit"
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"of that crusty corner, the end bit"
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"that I really enjoy from my mom's meatloaf."
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"-ASHLEIGH: Buddha, are you done? -I am done."
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"ASHLEIGH: Here I am super worried about time."
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"What the [bleep]?"
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"-Are you going to be okay? -Yeah. I burned the hoecakes."
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"The hoecakes were cooking very slowly"
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"and burning in some places."
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"Got to get these hoecakes right, sh--."
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"These things take about six minutes,"
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"and I can only cook six at a time."
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"JAE: Three minutes."
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"NICK: Game time."
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"-[timer beeping] -EVELYN: Time's up."
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"ASHLEIGH: All right. Here we go."
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"-BUDDHA: Hello, ladies. -Hi. Good afternoon."
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"Can I hook you up?"
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"I'm good. How are you?"
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"Guests are walking in"
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"and I still haven't figured this out."
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"I do not have enough batter"
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"to continuously throw these in the garbage."
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"[bleep]."
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"[party din]"
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"I'm from Australia."
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"My grandmother would cook this curry"
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"every time I come home."
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"I'm from Jackson, Mississippi."
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"Awesome."
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"-WOMAN: How are you today? -I'm doing very well."
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"Things are moving slowly."
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"But after I burn a few more,"
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"I get a rhythm."
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"Just going to top you off with a touch pepper vinegar."
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"I'm definitely going to have to chat up a lot more"
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