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Clips from Top Chef - Texas Trailblaze-hers (S19E19)

"A little bit more flour."
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"I know that I have to figure this out, period."
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"Ah, too thin."
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"[tense music]"
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"WOMAN: How fun is this?"
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"I believe this is your seat, right here."
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"CHRISTINE: All right, thank you, Gail."
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"Thank you."
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"Welcome, everybody. Thank you so much for being here."
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"It means the world to all of us."
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"It's a great way to honor some amazing, accomplished,"
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"groundbreaking women, past and present, at this table"
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"and not, so cheers to everybody."
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"And thank you for sharing this meal with us."
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"ALL: Cheers, cheers."
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"Can I say one thing just because Sheryl's here?"
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"PADMA: You can say as many things as you want."
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"So, my mother and Barbara Jordan would sit on the floor"
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"of the Erwin Center and watch Sheryl play basketball."
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"I feel like just that spirit is--"
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"-You're gonna make me cry now. -at this table."
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"So, it's such an honor to be here with amazing women."
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"[upbeat electronic rock music]"
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"ASHLEIGH: Ooh, what you up to over there?"
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"Hey! I'm breading the oysters already."
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"I just want to make sure they're breaded"
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"and fried at the last moment."
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"ASHLEIGH: Nice. Nice."
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"Got this chicken. It's been slowly cooked in a bag"
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"and now I'm just giving it some color."
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"My biggest concern about the dish is chicken breast"
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"can often be dry, but techniques that I put"
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"on the plate will be all the stuff that I've learned"
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"in Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, working for my mentor,"
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"Clare Smyth. To me, she is the best chef in the world."
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"So, it's kind of like a roast chicken"
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"and poulet en vessie."
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"Trying to get some more flavor going."
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"EVELYN: Five minutes."
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"[humming]"
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"[tense music]"
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"Why did I choose such intricate work?"
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"I'm just very scared because I'm running out of time."
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"Sh-- is real."
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"I don't want to mess up."
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"I'm trying to well represent not only myself but Selena."
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"JACKSON: Evelyn, you need any help?"
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"Can you follow with the chili oil?"
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"-Two drops? -Yeah, beautiful."
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"Sh-- got real."
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"DAMARR: Oh, boy."
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"EVELYN: Three, two, one."
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"[timer beeping]"
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"We did it!"
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"-Looks great. -Selena."
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"WOMAN 1: Ooh..."
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"WOMAN 2: Oh, the first set up is so fancy."
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"It's beautiful, isn't it?"
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"-WOMAN 3: It's incredible. -WOMAN 2: Yeah."
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"This first course is inspired by Selena."
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"So, Evelyn and Damarr,"
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"please let me introduce you to Suzette Quintanilla."
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"Hi."
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"PADMA: Selena's sister as well as her drummer."
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"Awesome. Well, first of all, it's an honor to be here."
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"It's a table full of amazing women, and Tom."
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"[laughter]"
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"For inspiration, I mean, she just meant so much"
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"for our community. It's someone that we saw in a bigger platform"
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"that we could relate to."
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"So, what I've prepared for you guys today"
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"is kind of a take on aguachile, ceviche vibes."
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"I've named it after my favorite Selena song,"
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"which is "Como la Flor," which is "Like a Flower.""
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"So, that's why the presentation."
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"On the bottom, we have our Texas Gulf snapper"
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"tossed in a little bit of Asian pear, chives,"
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"avocado mashed with orange zest."
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"PADMA: Damarr, what did you make?"
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"What really stood out to me was that she was all about family."
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"Which made me think about pozole."
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"It's just, like, family in a bowl in my mind."
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"So, I made green pozole with white corn tortillas,"
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"cabbage and radish and cilantro."
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"What does it feel like to cook for this table, Damarr?"
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"You know, I'm usually sort of calm,"
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"but I'm, like, really nervous."
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"[laughter]"
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"You know, I was raised by three women"
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"and it's just, like, a moment of reverence and so..."
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"I think that's probably the vibration"
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"in my voice, 'cause I'm just nervous, so..."
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"[laughter]"
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"PADMA: I got it, thank you, both."
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"WOMAN: This is amazing."
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"PADMA: What did you think of Evelyn's aguachile?"
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"I could feel the love there and it flowed into her dish"
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"completely, and I loved it."
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"The size of the fish is really nice,"
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"it has great texture, it's really bright and I'll stop"
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"talking now because there are plenty of women here"
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"who I should listen to."
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"[laughter]"
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"Evelyn's aguachile was excellent."
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"It was just well balanced in texture,"
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"in temperature and in flavor."
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"PADMA: Sheryl, did you like this dish?"
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"Well, I have none left."
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"-[laughter] -Pace yourself."
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"-I wanna try your pozole, dude. -Yeah."
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"What about Damarr's pozole?"
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"His dish was definitely that type that you just"
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"want to sit down and be around family and talk and hang out."
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"The tortilla, I thought, was really soft"
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"and delicious and beautiful."
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"-I was, like, vibrating. -Yeah, it's just so much."
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"Like, what is going on here?"
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"I feel like you just feel the power at the table."
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"-Yeah. -Like, whoa."
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"-JAE: You good, Ashleigh? -Yup."
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