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what do you think a beach other before you many check I
yeah
well we could make it interesting the people paid ok with it
yes bobbie what did you think before you met me
I eyesight II such got the first time I saw john was on a television screen
before
they want to show the programming director the Food Network
I was walking on the halls that network one day and the food
the the programming director called me and she said note coming to take a look
at this
I said okay and she put in at a
discover it might imitate at that point yeah I'm
I and she said what do you think apart and I said well
and she has a lot of teeth what
you have more teeth the most the lesson
I have a huge smile it's unbelievable unbelievable i kno
I'm anyway so I said you know that she's
really confident very pretty and
you know Italian food I mean at that time the only person you in time for the
network was married with Ali
food and you marry as it mario has its own style and she said well do you think
it's
its different enough I said absolutely I said tell you who is a huge subject and
this is coming from a very different place in america is a professional chef
he talks a lot about his travels and the history of Italy
and jotta seems like she be a fantastic home cook which is what
you most people who are watching it on a professional chef their home culture
where you at all worried about coming in
on merit on my as territory to be completely honest this was never
anything
then I dreamt over wanted
my family made movies so I always felt like if I wanted to be in from the
camera had every opportunity to do that
I never had any interest I was very shy young lady
and was that movie you were in you
you should have backlit okay I wish I had known about the frizzy hair it was
not a
yeah I was very shy and
a I chose to cook for a living so that
I could bring joy to people but not actually have to face them
and talk to them I could do it of a fire which i think a lot of chefs choose this
profession to do just that
I think they like to bring joy to people like to see how excited they are to eat
their food but they don't actually want age
with them on a personal level and so
that's really why I chose to do what I do and so do be in from the camp is very
difficult for me
I didn't even think about my the tally I just thought about how to help you get
through each and every day
my and after I was done with the first season I actually remember saying
you have to remember to my family was like put is this channel and what are
you do my grandfather specially
he said you know I built I built a huge business
and I we have a very respectable name are you going to just trash it
like doing food television what is that at the time it was it what it is today
so I'll was very nervous and I didn't think about anything else other than
house gonna get of
the air and how I was going to make my family proud
for both love you anybody you kinda got famous cooking
in at nm southwestern mode that was not like me know your heritage your
background and yada
you know you're obviously much more than just an Italian cook now or maybe even
more than in Antalya
American Club what how much at this point you think being like authentic
to you know someplace sometime
matters ID does matter
I'm home now I'm I was at a disadvantage
um going up in an irish-american household
in the sixties and seventies I'm I love my mother
but it was a huge repertoire cuisine yeah
the she hates when I talk about it but I mean it was you know
was pork chops and applesauce lamb chops in mint jelly
no she wasn't making the jelly what you have a sauce yes
%uh many will not add efficiency early for
it was it was a supermarket name sloan's around the corner from my house we have
fun
thanks you the I do remember the fish I just remember that blue styrofoam
um that it came in and was wrapped it was like it what kinda fish was this
white yes like
no idea I mean I was my you know so that was my childhood so
in some way I was inspired to learn how to cook yeah I'm
didn't but but then when I became a professional chef
on I found southwestern food because
it was where I was I was cooking for Jonathan Waxman and Timea GM's in budzyn
buds was
I'm you know it the both jams and buds were all California style cuisine and it
kinda seat
into the southwest as well so that was the first time we saw things like blue
cornmeal
and all the fresh and dried chili peppers and
um using mesquite would to cook on I mean that's a dove
was all that so the west coast cooking and I fell in love with those
ingredients
so as a young cook that's what my cuisine was
and then i decided i wanna going home my skills in that I went outside have
into the southwest and worked with um some wonderful chefs who really created
the contemporary southwestern cuisine
as it is today and that's how I started cooking that kinda food
so I think it's important to stay true to it I always reach
for chili peppers and some way shape or form the matter what I'm doing
I need flavor woohoo and you ever reach for something and think like this
and you know that's two Italian about LSV definitely
so hold on hold on OK well that's that's what do you know
you know john is a I'm she's on the on the staff at The Today Show
me she's she's a contributor contributor2 so much
a and I i'm on the Today Show sometimes as well
and whatever I do it tonight dish it's like I get a lot
he does it a lot because I let me tell you tell stories are really can follow
along
what was the story means I'll tell stories hun
this story is we do Rachel a together how
yeah we do reach away together
yeah and I show a secret at
that my grandfather taught me about making past I make a sauce really with
the easy one
in an attic past that hostile past the with fresh Parmesan cheese before i toss
it with the sauce right to great
latest yeah a suffix to the am to the cheese at six the past
watching The Today Show nobody's gonna be on
in I'm watching 07 what gives us great to tell right
yeah you know I'll
I stop
because I 62 I was like no
way now okay yeah yeah
I little tip he just from is a tad lower body das the only you can save my
the true story okay construe story here
guy site on people I tell you it
here's a trick I should just learn to start making southwestern fit okay
know who put you eat listen you know I'm John came over to my house this summer
and for lunch and I I made a bunch of food but
I Jade our daughter wanted something like pasta
and so I said you know you let me throw some pasta and she said no no don't
worry about it as well
you know some but there's another kid they want some positive saw a story out
a carrot I put
apollo water on and five minutes later Jack comes into the kitchen is yes
I'm team I ever put more water in the pot was like sure no problem if you like
took over the water for the pasta hah
I would rather likes her past a certain way
okay I little got it
them
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