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I’m Ryan Gosling. Look, can you with details coming up in class starts today. Monday. January. 15th //2024. >> We are back its MLK day and this year it falls on what would have been Doctor King’s 95th birthday time. His legacy of service. This morning we’re shining a light on a couple in
Alabama who started a very unique restaurant. NBC’s Blayne Alexander caught Up with them playing. Good morning. Well, guys, good morning to you. I’m joining you from the King Historic District here in Atlanta. This is really the heart of the King Day celebration. But of course,
His legacy is wide reaching. That includes a small town of Brewton, Alabama. That’s where we found one popular restaurant that’s keeping Doctor King’s legacy of service alive every day. >> Even before the doors open the energy at Drexel and honey. Bees. Bees buzzing.
I’m here in Brewton, Alabama. It’s one of the hottest lunch spots in town. But what you won’t see big news prices or a single dollar exchanging hands. This restaurant operates on donations. Only their motto is simple. We feed the need. I just wanted to do something to show people that.
>> Money does not does not make the world go around. >> It’s the brainchild of Lisa McMIllan and her husband Freddy together. They’re serving up hot meals every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11:00PM to 01:00PM, a small town in southern Alabama. Britain’s population barely
Tops 5,000 County wide. More than 17% of people are food insecure. Lisa has spent much of her life trying to change that for more than a decade. She drove door-to-door delivering meals. >> Over 100 a day, a lot of what else of the people
We’re struggling. Everybody should have a right to be able to. Water is right and have a meal. >> Not worry about paying. >> She shared her dream with Freddie and the 2 were all in together. They took half of their retirement fund to bring Drexel in honeybees to life.
>> So when you first tell your friends and family about this, that I was crazy. >> People are telling us how you got no, I got over a restaurant and people all they were the was charged of people going out of business.
>> 6 years later, this is the daily lunch rush. I they even had to recruit a little help. So if you stand by to our entire, that’s just a fraction of their work. Lisa does all the shopping. >> How do you all decide what’s on the menu that appears on was
On sale at the grocery store. >> Then comes the cooking. Every meal is homemade. >> This is hard work got is hard work. >> But that work comes from a personal place. That’s because years ago, Lisa was in the very same position.
>> I was pregnant and I’m no food was some. I was barbecuing and I smelled it. And I just the corn because I didn’t I didn’t have anything to eat. And I just want I don’t want anybody to go through that. >> That’s why she pours her heart out here today. Drexel in
Honeybees gets an annual grants to help keep doors open. But the bulk of the support comes from the kindness of strangers. A lot of people coming out to Sheryl Story. Believe it or not to hope. >> We have a lot of people that normally wouldn’t.
>> Social with each other and now they’re friends and her customers feel it, too. >> The male was like, Yeah, that’s right. Help me. >> But the real heart of the place Lisa says is the donation box. >> These partitions to okay. The petitions of could have had
To make sure everyone had their own little private a place to come. >> That privacy, she says, is the only thing that keeps some customers coming back. >> We had to set it up where they could keep that private, keep it intact. And that’s what we did.
>> Some days she finds $1000 inside others. Just a few coins, but always the handwritten notes. >> Thank you because of you. A family of 4 today. We don’t find a whole lot of money in there, but we find everything we need in the air to keep going.
>> And she plans to keep going for a long time to come every year. >> As God give me 20 mo, you will or 20 more, 20 more years. That’s right. 20 more years. These tools will never quote. >> And she really is committed to that. She says the doors
Will never close at Drexel in honeybees and I believe it or not, she and her husband are still putting their own money in to make sure that the doors stay open. They said they’ll use the rest of their retirement if they need to do it. Now that places very special. But another special
Aspect are the volunteers there. People they say that come from as far away as Indiana and Maine. They heard about it on Facebook or social media and they say they locked down there because they just want to be part of something special. Guys.
>> Wow. Lane, thank you so much for shining a light on that. Love the guy who’s like the food is secondary, right? Yeah. The community and what a beautiful, beautiful example in her spirit is so touching. Absolutely sure. But on our
Website if people want it, you know, you can see there to put the money in the Shirley was the way people don’t from a distance that out as well. Yeah. >> We love celebrating birthdays on the Today show 104 for grandma job where she watching from Lockhart, Texas.
Is she on the phone right now? >> And that’s true for just 4 down in Texas. And it’s surprisingly warmer here. I think right now. There she is. Pretty much looking. Good while. >> Happy birthday to you. Oh, my gosh. Happy birthday, Grandma. Joann everybody else on the plaza. We’ve got a lot
>> We are big fans of Teddy swims and his amazing voice. And just wait until you hear that he’s putting on a Taylor Swift pit. >> Her son up to 20 in this pocket. Double D you’re pulling double duty this morning to start
Doubled its a big one, too. Yes. All right. We’ve got you covered. We’re going to start with the Critics Choice Awards. Last night the stars came out for the 29th annual show honoring those who shine brightest on the big and small screens. Oppenheimer no surprise white miso money with
The most movie wins, bringing home a trophies, including best picture ensemble cast and director. Meanwhile, the Bears succession and beef dominated in the world of television. And a special award went to Indiana Jones himself, Mister Harrison for taking home a trophy for career achievement.
>> Really happy to be here tonight to see what our business is turning into all of the two-week people who are getting opportunities want to thank you. Locally work supports me when I see a lot of support. >> I mean, what is your son gets choked up. Gets me choked
Up. So adorable. Congratulations to him. And when it came, the speech is moving speeches. America first. I had the crowd feeling all the feels with these powerful words accepting the see her award because I grew up. >> As a first generation Honduran American girl, she’s
In love with TV film and theater who desperately wanted to be a part of the storytelling legacy that I could not see myself reflected in because of writers, directors, producers and executives who are daring enough to rewrite outdated stories and to challenge deeply entrenched biases.
And and some of my beloved Latina colleagues have been set Greenlee blast to bring to life some fierce and fantastic women. >> So I said Congratulations to America. And it was a big night for Barbie. 3 tunes from the soundtrack for nominated for best original song. >> And the Critics Choice is
I’m Justin. >> That phase, I mean, clearly goes down the Reactions Hall of Fame or lack thereof. The Internet immediately declared Ryan Gosling winning as its new flavor of 30’s, even just taking this. All right. Next to friends who remembers this iconic TV moment. >> A family take thee, Rachel.
>> Remember that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure because a pair of the original scripts from the season. 4 finale of friends that were discovered in a garbage can just sold for nearly $30,000. According to the auction website, those pages were supposed to be destroyed after filming to
Avoid any of the spoilers from getting out. But a former employee at the London studio found them in the trash and held on to them for the last 25 years. Wow. The former script owner said she’s not even really huge. I am a fan of
Friends but just led to pass the awesome memorabilia onto. So yeah, writers back then how it’s just imagine that got it. I mean, that would ruin the whole thing that we all just get that right. Next up, Nicole Kidman a few years ago, the Oscar-winning actress May pop culture history with this big
Screen campaign for AMC theaters. >> Dazzling, you need to use the huge silver screen sound that I can feel >> I need to get to the movies more. That video which runs before movies took the Internet by storm fans recreating her legendary monologue. Even full theaters reciting the words in
Unison. Now that sparkly Michael Kors jumpsuit is up for sale. It’s a size to the Grey. Pinstripe ensemble is being auctioned off by southern bees and is expected to fetch somewhere between 5 $10,000. That sale closes next week. If you’re looking for something at your traffic tickets in
Something other than a and finally, Teddy swims. The soulful singer recently visited the BBC Radio One Live lounge and covered this Taylor Swift Mega hit. >> was a really good first. Just shows you what a great song it is. You know, it’s the power. The songwriting was
Continuing to cover it. Team Taylor. He was missing and that his way a little bit. What up next. >> Vick is helping to tackle your biggest financial goals in 2024. With simple solutions to some of the most common money mistakes. But first, this is today on NBC.
We are back with our money saving Monday series. The New Year is the perfect opportunity to reset your finances. So here to help tackle some of those common mistakes and save some money importantly, along the way as NBC’s Vicky Wynn. Vicki, Nice to see it to see you. Happy New Year. So let’s
Get through this. If we can quickly. A lot of people did a ton of holiday shopping and now they’re dealing with the aftereffects of that. A lot of people to the pain out by later thing is having an impact. How can we help those folks? Yeah, there’s this. Trump floating around called Phantom
Debt or shadow debt. It was coined in a recent Wells Fargo reported that really refers. >> To all of that debt consumers are taking on through buy now. Pay later plans. You’ve seen them. They’re offered by big companies like a firm Klarna after pace as well.
And what they do is they give you a chance to pay something off interest free installment. But the challenges these loans are not being reported to the credit agencies and some estimates have them at 46 billion dollars in phantom debt that the government doesn’t know about and that sometimes consumers.
>> Lose track of it all the sudden you’re trying to play catch-up. You know the allies, how much you owe it to your begins of begins to pile up. Speaking of piling up, subscriptions pile up these days. If you’re not careful, you find yourself paying for all sorts of streaming services
And those whatever else. Right now we’re on subscription overload, Peter. And it’s not just streaming services and music razors. Car washes, shampoo, laundry detergent. >> Anything a company can get you to set and forget they want to because it’s profitable. So to combat that you really
Need to sit down and do an audit sit-down with that credit card bill and go through line by line. What can you tell me? What don’t you need any more? I mean, the average consumer spends $200 a month on subscriptions, according to see
In our research is outright. That’s a ton to tout its 2 and a half times more than people realize they’re actually spending. So look at your bills and I know you’re not an impulsive person. Peter, careful for those of us who dabble in online shopping. Sometimes it’s helpful to
Delete the auto saved for the credit card. If you go downstairs, get your wallet manually enter that credit card number. >> You may be less likely to make that impulse. How many times do you start or your kids want to start like sign up for
Something and you’re, you know, within 30 days to cancel it and you never do. You’re paying 9.95 for months to actually could be hundreds of dollars. And you save. Let’s talk about interest rates right now. Their high. Obviously, that’s an impact for people who are just carrying debt and ends up
Just growing and growing on that. >> Credit card interest rates are really scary right now. There are at record highs. Forbes advisor says as of last week the average credit card interest rate was 27%. That means for every $100 you put on your credit card that you don’t
Pay off having to pay back $127. It can be really hard to climb out of that kind of level of debt. Right? So first, if you can pick up the phone and call your credit card, wallet have did a study and they found 77% of the time.
When you call and say, hey, could you lower my interest rate? They do. So that is money on the table for you. The other thing, if you can switch to a 0% APR card that will give you 12 to 18 months to get ahead on your bills, kind of try to pay
Down some of that debt. Lendingtree also recommends may be taking out a personal loan. The interest rate will be lower than the rate you’re paying on your credit card. Use that loan to pay down credit card. >> Bills and then that will improve your credit scores,
Which is huge. So let’s talk about savings for individuals as well. This is a way that you cannot save money but make money. Yeah, the process too many people have regular savings accounts which means you’re leaving money on the table that those regular savings accounts are getting you maybe half a percent back.
>> Last year we talked about this. This is really the year of high yield savings accounts were talking about 5% that you could be making on your money, which is simple. It’s easy. That is the one upside of rising interest rates is that
You can make more off of your savings. So look, for those accounts, sometimes they’re online banks sometimes or brick and mortar banks, but a lot more offering high-yield savings account. So move your money there. The good thing is you can access it at any time. It’s super flexible. It’s not
Like a CD or sit certificate of deposit where you sort of lock up your money for 6 months or a year at a time. You’ve got this 5% AP Y and its growing your money as you speak. If you have to make a big purchase, it’s perfect. Another good reminder,
Take advantage of the benefits that you’re that you’re getting from your companies as well, right? That’s yeah, that’s that’s huge. A lot of us don’t take advantage of all those financial wellness options that are given to us. Certainly we have the 401 k. We always want to remind people, Max that out
Putin as much as your company will match because that’s free money. But a lot of times companies now offering you help with your student loan management. They’re giving you stipends for wellness and you go to the gym, that kind of thing and also access to free financial adviser. So when
You’re looking at your compensation package, look at the overall all package, not just the salary number, but what are those other benefits? >> And that might just call just asked. Hours. They can do is say no, that’s your get all the money. We’ve got to give
You the exact looking. Nice to see you. Thanks for that. Good advice this morning. We’re back in a 50 with start today. And plenty of people are focused on getting healthier in the new year, of course. And leading the charge, especially among women is strength training. It was the second most popular fitness
Trend of the last year. That’s a quarter of the American College of Sports, Medicine and the subscription based fitness app. Class past says that sign-ups for strength training classes have increased by wait for it. 94 1%. So here with everything that you need to know to start your journey is
James MC Million. He is a yes certified personal trainer and the director of innovation at Tone House will not for for any other reason. I like to get to a nice to see you, my. So let’s walk through this a little bit. Let’s talk about the strength
Training churning us so much about strength is about your mindset, how that will cause what’s important about mindset. So you have to start with the mindset. All right. What I like to tell people S progress over perfection. All right. Technique overweight. All right. You have to focus on
That technique and build up in your journey as well as you have to set realistic goals for yourself. All right. Your spirit has to be stronger than this vessel. When you think about training to talk about it, you have to be intentional
With you have them answer. I just think it you have to really do a lot of people go on Instagram. They like I want to try this new will and all that. Now you have to set a goal around your capabilities and that’s what we’re going to next
As a luxury is in terms of capabilities. We have some ladies here to be our models for the process laser out just a to feel. Thank you. Ahmed will go in this segment. So a lot of this is is the road map and sort of figuring out
Where you are fitness wise, so help lead the way, OK? So saying those intentional goals, you have to set short-term and long-term goals with that. You have to understand the capabilities in your body. So we have a strength assessment and now buys you guys to do this at home,
OK? So the first movement we’re going to go right into. We have a push-up. You want to do as many reps as you can for one minute and that he was not writers who asked for a yes as many as you can. And now you have to understand if you’re
Breathing is off. If you’re mobility. All the above range of motion in that push-up is off. Second think we’re going to go into going to stand all the way up into a squat. Now as you have to have a chat show with a part, you’re going
To go deep into that. Swat flies out. Now things you want to think about is my mobility. Okay. It’s more range of motion and a mom able to stay up. Right? Okay. You do that. The 15 to 20 reps after that. You come right back down came
One into a full on playing all right on playing. You want to keep those. It’s nice and leveled. If you find your body lowering all rise and really, you know, you have to adjust and work on your core accountable. That for one minute was long as possible. After that, you work on
Flexibility and mobility. They go hand in hand. Haha, which in our toll. So it’s going to go down to the floor. We’ll get a nice stretch of on those hands. Strains can touch of tolls. It’s O K. That’s what you have to work on your
Learning your body before your mobility say in that deep squat, nice open chest place to handle to go out and raise up to to say let’s say hello to the world and the wayside. Yes, you go to the opposite side and you raise up. That’s
Going to show you your mobility fee due to strip assessment. Understand your body, your capabilities and then that’s when you go. And that’s what we see. Who works out. >> Whether whether is this is banned in 2 years. >> Yes. So now, you know your assessment, you know, you
Capabilities and your understanding, yes, you want to know, OK, what weight do I? Yes, I will always tell clients ago from body weight, resistance, man’s into dumbbells and then into barbell, OK, why is that? So with resistance? Mance is joint friendly now with
Dumbbells. Now you can work in different planes of motion as well as a little bit lower. So what am I doing here? So right now you’re going to go about your workout, used to with what I’m going to utilize. It don’t know, OK, I’m going
Into it. The SWAT you’re going into a front was this man. So you’re going to place your feet on the bad end to the fee to be shoulder with with a par slightly turn those tolls out. Okay for the tracking of you need with the point of the
Ewells out one hills down. Now you’ve got a grip that ban will go into a squat, OK? I want like of this kind of Grand Bahama. You want to have like that totals up. We’re going down into the squad. So we have 3 sets of 8 reps at
Home. If you like to do with us. All right. Come back up. Think about dry, warmer and drier. Thanks to a Florida heels with the new Wonder Woman High. Okay. Great job. So we’ve got 2 more reps to keep going the next. We’re going to go
Into as a bent over rows. I’m going to grab this out there. Don’t do here. They’re going to step up debates. Yes, okay. This is here. Stagger stance and now the foot that should be pointed out. Yes. Like what’s the point of forwards or nice big chest
Neutral spine, yet much of loose was at back at all. And now we want to think about going and I also the ceiling pulling our show, the Blake. I get there just like that as if the last one of the smaller you back. Let’s do it right.
So now you have a chest press. Yeah, I’m going to come over to the bench press. If you have a bench press at home or in your local gym, our Labs, Inc. >> I want to keep going here. We are back with our 3rd and 4th out.
>> There’s guys there is, you know, working out the and the second was to make a first your local news >> This morning. On the 3rd hour of today, Arctic blast. More than 100 million people waking up to bone chilling temperatures, snow and dangerous freezing rain and
It’s only going to get colder. We’re tracking all of it. Then a wild weekend to kick off NFL playoffs from huge upsets. >> I want to play off game. >> To that SubZero showdown and it’s not over yet. We’re live breaking down all the action and our series taking off
Today. One couple’s incredible health transformation. How they dropped more than 100 pounds together. That’s all ahead today. Monday, 1/15/2024. >> Live from Studio One a in Rockefeller Plaza. This is the 3rd hour of today. >> Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the 3rd hour of
Today. I’m dealing here with our weekend today co-host Peter Alexander, Laura Jarrett. Yeah, house here here. Our cake. And now all on this holiday morning. Today, of course. >> Is a day to remember Doctor Martin Luther King junior and reflect on his legacy. No doubt this is such an important day.
Doctor King, of course, was born on this day in 1929. In Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in the segregated South, would go on to devote his life to tirelessly fighting for civil rights. Doctor King was also known for his in. >> Passion speeches, of course, including his iconic addressed
During the march on Washington where he shared his dream for the country’s future. >> I have a dream. One day He do in just minutes with the heat of oppression being tried and freedom and dropped a 3 one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the
Color of the mask and but by the content of bad character. >> I’m still so sure. Even today across the country today is also a day of service in Doctor King’s Honor. >> Yeah, my wife taking our girls to do a community project
Today. It’s nice to notice to to to use this day, not as a day off from school, not as a break from the office, but as day to really remember, he’s like a scene and hopefully to pay it forward and even explaining his legacy to our children. I think just keeps you know.
>> My forward. Yeah, for sure. All right. Well, we are, of course, happy to have both of you here today. And the weekend was a good weekend. >> Was good. It was a cold one which made for a good sort of dog day of Winter. Thanks. Owes me a star. All just
Chillin watching football weekend. Also home to DC after our show. Little more football to watch. Stars looking so good needs. It needs a little cleanup. Not all. >> All right, Chad, she’s duty saying after anchor with Peter, I go try to find my children. My son James, thus far. He’s it
Is Ninja class. And because moms it work, dad has to get them dressed. When I got to the ninja class I said was hanging down. Haha. Well, James put on his sister’s was a what he what kind of bus and it to right. It was right. He can that and
Because it was so cold, we did a fair amount. So yes, there is one Z on a 4 year old. Yeah. And because it was so cold, we did a lot of blue this weekend. We got in deep. Yeah. For like a bunch of new episodes. Drop guys. Louis,
Those it’s just as much fun for you to watch. I mean, I was laughing. >> Haha. Yeah, we actually have been up. It’s warm. All my kids are absolutely obsessed. And we’ve been seeing in the songs all weekend. This is us not let up on the couch
Watching yet another Muppets movie. And then here, Calvin there. The count on the left who clearly needs a haircut was Shaq’s finally agreed to let us get him a haircut and look at the lake. Look at the difference here is is like shaggy kind of summertime. Look, he looks older or younger
And just happy the mop is thrown a little gel and their 2 little same old or older, right? Yeah. Young man finally convinced him. All right. Well, it was a cold and snowy weekend across much of the country. More than 100 million people facing dangerous temperatures with record
Breaking cold likely today. So let’s check in with NBC is Jesse Kirsch in snowy Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jesse, do you even have a degree? They’re like even a single degree. >> I unfortunately have been looking for one. I think we left them at home. Don’t fear large. Good morning to all of
The kinds of so you have a better weekend binge eating some TV than being out in this. Take a look at what it is outside right now in Grand Rapids, 0 degrees. Roughly. That is our real temperature. But what it feels like with the
Wind chill is about negative 19. And it is actually I think snowing harder now than it was even an hour ago. This is day 7 in a row of snow here in Western Michigan. I met a woman over the weekend named Kim Davis who because of the
Conditions on the roads, which are definitely, you know, not the best place to be a. She decided to walk to the pharmacy to get some toothpaste. She said it was a 90 minute trip. You know, all and round-trip 90 minutes of you can imagine that. So that’s the kind of thing people are
Doing just to get some toiletries right now. It’s not just an issue in the Great Lakes. All this weather. We’re looking at a lot of cold weather across much of the country anywhere from 20 to 45 degrees below average today. And take a look at the scene from Colorado. Officials say
Over the weekend an avalanche hit a highway there. Just to bring it back here to Grand Rapids. Real quick. I just want to show you this is the street out here. You can see it is still blanketed in snow. So definitely slick conditions
For people on the roads and you’re trying to get your flight. Good luck with that as well because we’re tracking more than 1500 cancellations tied years. Airports already today, according to FlightAware the flight tracker. Guys, back to you. >> All right. Searching said that. Nice pink, rosy glow.
So that’s that’s a plus for you while that and get warm. Thank you so much. All right. So let’s take a look at the cold blast on the maps because I mean, it is dangerously cold for so many people right in the middle of the country
Stretching all the way down into Texas where it’s going to be about 40 to 50 degrees below average. Houston will feel like 21 degrees today. Dallas will feel like 5 below that wind chill is brutal all into the Great Lakes. Obviously the wind causing more lake effect. Snow up near Buffalo off of
Lake Ontario, too. Temperatures in the 20’s going to the next several days. Looks like Wednesday in Chicago. We might get up to 17, but then Thursday we could see another reinforcement. >> Of cold air. That’s just going to keep this week. Very fridge. But yeah, be careful out there. This is a
This is unpleasant weather. That’s for sure. By the way, speaking of weather was better on a cold day than staying inside watching a little bit of football. The NFL’s wild-card weekend was just that it was while that was insane. But man, was it fun to watch? And NBC’s Kaylee Hartung was on the
Sidelines for what was the 4th coldest game in NFL Playoff history in Kansas City. She fortunately is thought out is back indoors in La Kaylee. Good morning. >> Yeah, guys. It is wonderfully nice to be back indoors and I plan on watching football from my couch. Cozy as
Ever today. You said it. That Chiefs dolphins game went down in the history books. The 4th coldest game ever. This is what playoff football is all about and there is still more to come. >> Super Wild Card weekend delivering the drama and see a
Few tears in there. Detroit in the next 3 decades long playoff drought. >> With a one-point win over the Rams, that means a lot. We just broke a streak that’s been going on for 30 years. >> This after the Packers pulled off a huge upset. Dallas
Reading in the Cowboys lead pleading offense, holding them to just 16 points until late in the Fort. >> This is one of my most surprises since I’ve been involved in sport period. >> On Saturday in the AFC, a frigid faceoff between the Dolphins and the chiefs conditions in Kansas City,
A numbing negative 4 degrees taking Miami out of its element. The temps taking its toll on Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. I got the answer to the question. Everybody’s wondering, yes, he does know his mustache has frozen. The chill spreading throughout Arrowhead with even the drinks
Frozen solid and fans in the stands feeling negative. 22, including the most famous member of Chiefs Kingdom. Second timber video along with Mama Kelsey Taylor Swift cheering on boyfriend Travis, the famous couple leaving together after Kansas City’s win at home. >> Their 26 to 7 victory keeps the Chiefs surfing toward the
Super Bowl. The atmosphere here was. >> 7. Yeah. That’s the tease kingdom. I mean, it’s negative 30. Whatever it is out here. They’re not. If you see the stands. >> In Houston, Browns quarterback Joe Flacco threw not one but 2 pick sixes. In the 3rd quarter. The Texans advancing
With a 45 to 14 win. 22 year-old CJ Stroud becoming the youngest quarterback to win a playoff game. >> The story of Stroud is just beginning Houston dominant. >> After a blizzard postpone the game in Buffalo Bills, fans volunteering to shovel snow in the stadium.
Those bills fans may be to bring their shovels back to Highmark Stadium. More snow is expected in Buffalo today, though. The winds shouldn’t be is dangerous when they take the field to play the Steelers. That’s what it looked like this weekend. How wild is that? That is exactly why they
Postponed that game until today. >> And then there’s rain in the forecast down in Tampa Bay for Bucs Eagles. If anybody needs any tips on staying warm, I’m your girl. I got to tell you how I managed to make it through on Saturday, guys. I had 8 batteries powering the
Layer of clothing closest to my body from my head to my toes. 2 pairs of socks, 3 pairs of pants, 4 layers of tops. Plus a big down jacket that my little brother said made me look like the Michelin man. When survival is the objective.
Vanity is out the window but there was a game. I did richer was great. I really did feel warm inside. >> The hardest part feel like that. Look, it’s a good one have never gotten that. >> What really killed me, though, was the fingertips,
Even as big and warm looking as my heated gloves were, it was the fingertips that really? Yeah, I think they’re still think there. So, haha, we’re glad you have recovered and you’re now warm and safe. The polling era. >> Mahomes was like where not even a had about. I was like he
Is crazy. What is going on? Kaylee? Wisely bundled up to 4 hours. Just much more. Yeah. I would note the address. Haha. Well, when we come back, shining a light on a special organization on the South side of Chicago that is spreading hope.
>> For the arts. And then later, our series taking off today. One couple shares how they work together to get healthy. We’ll be right back. >> So tell us that finish line in style. News anchors on one wall to you. I love this stuff. >> This morning we celebrate Doctor Martin Luther King
Junior’s birthday and tomorrow is also the National Day of Racial Healing. >> It’s an event created 7 years ago by our sponsor Wk Kellogg Foundation. So today We’re shining a light on one incredible organization. >> That’s right, guys. It is on the South side. Chicago not far
From where I grew up, call the little Black Pearl. Their mission is to heal and grow the community using the arts. >> On the corner of 47th in Greenwood Avenue in Chicago’s Kenwood neighborhood set up there saying and actually there’s a vibrant community center called the Little Black Pearl
Inside. There’s an art studio and a food and wellness market. Even houses a high school. >> We consider ourselves a 3rd space, a place where people when they’re not home or when there’s not at work. This is a place of belonging, a place where they get to come and have creative experiences.
>> Monica Haslett founder and executive director of Little Black Pearl. Imagine the organization out of her home 30 years ago as way to give back to the young people in her community. We would teach them how to create functional art and then we would teach them how to market and sell that
Work with so many talented students coming through the program. Monica says they quickly outgrew her home in 11 years later with the support of the larger community. She built a permanent place for the organization. We went from 2000 Square feet in my house to 42,000 Square feet here which
>> allowed us to expand programs and to mourn. We do a lot of work that connects to racial healing. >> She says racial healing is part of almost every aspect of little black Pearl. >> If I could intentionally designed something that focused on issues of segregation and separation, if I could build a
Business model that brought people together, could I use that to help be a bridge in a community that’s changing. >> You can see that change in action and the little Black Pearl Art and Design Academy, which exposes high school students to the arts and experience to learning with an
Emphasis on building a better community. All the students say works. Thank you. >> Well, coming into one thing the school makes want to do a lot. So many opportunities here and look at the school impact town need even other kids since the mayor could use.
>> Monica says some of the graduates have come back to give back like entrepreneur and business owner P Johnson who join the program from the beginning when she was just 11 years old. >> First day that I got there, we learned how to spell on.
You know, I was of lifted in a way that now I can give to other people. >> P of continues to give back creating a program for young leaders and entrepreneurs like herself looking to develop and grow their ideas. >> It’s a cohort of like-minded people that have this focus on
Creating a community that is working together in different ways. Little black girl is giving space to that and that’s what it’s all about the space. >> With so many different spaces, ideas and people that are part of this community, Monica says she hopes to create more organic moments for healing, understand and grow.
>> We’re trying to stay in our little corner of the world that we are better when we work together. And when we have the opportunity to really honor everybody’s humanity. >> Monica says she hopes the next generation of leaders spreads these lessons to communities across the country.
To learn more about the national day of racial healing. You can watch our streaming special sponsored by wk Kellogg Foundation by scanning the QR code or heading to NBC News now Dot com. The Comcast Foundation. A branch of our parent company is a sponsor of little black. Wrong. I can tell
You guys really even where it is placed jurisdiction, Lee in the city. It is just a center of bustling. Wonderful. It’s like I grew up literally 5 minutes away and it has grown and grown over the years. It’s just want I love that.
She describes it as a place of belonging to a place of belonging and community and growth. What a great difference he’s making there just ahead right here in amazing health transformation in our series. >> Take it off today. How one couple lost more than 100 pounds together.
Then later, fun ways to have a ball during the snow days when your kid is a new world stuck inside. We’re back to some of >> In your neck of the woods, you deserve to be celebrated. >> We’re back now with our take it off today series and this
Time of year, a lot of people are focused on their health. And the couple you’re about to meet may inspire you to stick to your goals. Not too long ago, Ashley Evans and Brandon wrote weighed nearly 500 pounds combined. Then a dream trip
That gave them motivation to make a change. We’re going to meet that in just a moment. But first, here’s their story. >> Friend and I have been married for 2 years throughout the years. We’ve always been active enjoying time outdoors. But that quickly changed when the pandemic hit in
Twenty-twenty. We stay home and in the 3 years since we a lot for me. But weakness was grabbing a bag of chips at night before bed. Any move that for us went out the window in early 2023, I waive my heaviest 260 pounds and I weigh 225 pounds.
We tried different diets but nothing stuck. I had 0 energy and always felt exhausted throughout the day in May 2023, I want to trip to Maui, but instead of feeling excited week of in Paris about how we left, we knew we had to make a
Change. We started switching up our guy eating whole Foods in saying goodbye to snacking. And to our surprise, we saw immediate results before vacation. We have actually joined a gym were actually remains focused on strength training and I’ve become obsessed with pickleball.
In just 7 months. We’ve lost a combined 115 pounds and we feel better than ever. >> All right, guys, again, here’s Ashley and Brennan before this whole health journey and they are here. So let’s meet them now actually running. Come on. >> My goodness. Congratulations, hahaha, to be here.
>> I was so much fun. I know you guys like so many couples have tried to lose weight together before. What was it about this dream vacation that really just kind of got you guys going? >> Yeah, well, the trip was definitely the catalyst for us
To really make a change this time. And but I think our approach is what made the big difference in the past. We would join a gym, try to work out like bodybuilders in 2 weeks. We burn out and we will be done and that the same on
The diet. We tried kind of the mainstream restrictive diets that would that were really hard to maintain. We were doing for 2 weeks and then we were done once again. So it was really hard for us to really stick with it. But Maui got us excited. We were.
Us on this. This lifestyle change. We’re super excited where we’re at. I love that people set goals, but rarely do they follow through you guys to live or on those goals. It didn’t require you to make some important adjustments in the ways that you eat. What were some of those adjustments? Yes week.
>> Like Brandon said, we kept things simple. So we were overwhelmed with anything. So when I would go into the grocery store, I decided to eliminate the middle aisles, which is where I find the cookies for this next foods that we were so overly consuming. And I stuck to the
Outskirts of the grocery store where the fruits, the vegetables, the lean proteins were. And that really did the trick for me to stay focused. You know what, what? >> Food was kind of come into the house. So you guys shopped different. You also play different a little pickleball.
>> Yeah, I know we have enough time for me to talk about and rare of says that this point, I think play 7 days a week and it has numerous benefits from a so it the physical benefits are. It’s my cardio. I I can’t run on the treadmill for 3 hours,
But I can play football for 4 or 5 hours. So it’s amazing to be able to do that and then the mental health and social aspect. So I’m able to get out and meet new people, make new friends and really just have fun. We actually spent Christmas Day with my pickleball partner.
>> This year. So it was phenomenal. So we’re making real friends and having a lot of funds. Life changes. Yeah, absolutely. And Ashley, I know you have type one diabetes. Yes. How has losing weight actually helped? >> In that regard, it’s been a tremendous benefit. I just saw
My doctor earlier this month. My numbers look beautiful. My cholesterol, blood pressure. Everything is down. And I decrease my daily insulin from 50 units to 25 units. So that makes me really happy. And proud. Just with died. An extra just I didn’t exercise. Yes.
>> Talk about the impact. This because it only been married for a short time before he sort of went on this journey together, which I trust only draw you closer. How has this impacted your relationship? Well, it’s been phenomenal. So we’ve been together for over 10 years, married for 2.
And in the beginning, we would kind of blend our hobby so she would come fishing with me. I would spend time at the craft stores. Yeah, but now we have a common goal and we have a common hobby that we’re we’re both working towards. So it’s
It’s really been phenomenal. And then I think the other piece is we really get to celebrate each other. So not only when I had a goal, I could be happy about it. But when Ashley, it’s going, does her first pull up or loses that
Next 10 pounds? We can really be happy for each other and then and accountability partners always helpful with these kind of changes. Yes, if just one of you have done it, if you had that little cooking, it might be a little bit. Yeah. Go. Thank you. Inspire someone to make small changes.
Yeah. You both small changes be consistent and set small goals and you’ll see big result. Pickleball 2 to 3 days a week is enough. Doesn’t need to be 7. Yeah. Whittle this at least 7 days a week. >> Her sharing that story. And if you want to learn more
About Ashley Brandon story, you can just go to today dot com. Up next, a snow day goal. >> Fun toys to pass the time when it’s too cold for the kids to get outside. And later in start today, the right way to do the most popular acts are sizes from squats to curls.
I’m going to embarrass myself and we’re fixing common mistakes will be right back. We’ll just start post your questions. What can fans expect us for getting there? >> It’s a Friday. There it is right here. >> We have already, of course, have several big winter storms. And this is the season.
>> Where things can be tough, a lot of inside time. So this morning we’re going to share some fun ways to stay occupied on some of those long snow days. The toy insider’s at or in Chief Ally Barczewski is here to help us out. I was a
Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Happy snow day. But today is not so that Cold day at which I guess is the same thing right now. Let’s talk about some different ideas here. You can’t go to the beach per se right now, but there are
Other ways to do to build its snow castle as it work. Definitely. So even if you’re in warmer weather not getting that snow. This is the. >> Create a castle built master indoor snow castle kit. So with these mold has a patent blocking this trend can start
Building for me. We’re going to walk out of that Castle. Haha. So they has the patent patent, molds that have these locking systems on him. So instead of having to flip the mold over and hope that your castle stays up,
>> you just unlock them right. And then open it up and you can peel right off the side. There you go. Yeah. They add perfect castle. This was all built with that sets. You can build it all inside of here. You get 2 and a half pounds of
This. He’s ready. That’s what it was. Taped shot. My. >> Cool. Now that yes, the so that they come up perfectly beautiful castles. And so Ali is doing a little baking for U.S. ally, right? What do you baking up for us and how does this work?
>> So this is the cookies may curry and Ali, and I’m going to make some little plus friends actually here. So we’re going to take them to reach around the site is secure little dope house here. So this kit comes with everything that Eliot
Summed mix up her little. Do animal friends going to stick it in the oven? Close it up, turn the dial. It’s going to start a timer for about 90 seconds when the timer goes off and we open it up inside for going to have this interactive. >> Watch how that.
>> I actually sent it. If you want to give it a smell, it’s there. All season from baking treats. Show that once for. Yeah. Haha. That’s a mineral. So this is just a really fun for kids. It’s a big thing that cozy comfort.
Yeah. It’s not an easy bake oven. There’s no heating going on. You can do it over and over again. Hits a year. It got an artist in the family. It like we got McKenzie and Thomas here when he got yes. So this ultimate light board from Kyle
Is one of my favorites, actually. So as you can see, it lights up. You can draw on it. What’s really cool about this? This back pannels going to slide right out. You can trace anything on it. So we trace the today show on here
For you guys. You can drop free hand. All of that comes of these gel FX markers and are allayed aboard here. Double a batteries. What did you hear that? Just batteries? And it has storage for the markers in the back. It’s got 3 light
Settings on its own. Very nice show. Your board skies. Yeah. Haha. Better than having. Like thousands of pieces of paper. That really was what my house looks like. You do it over and over again. Okay. Perfect. And then Kyle. They can play soccer outside that they can do a little indoor
Mask. Yeah. This is the Franklin Sports battle soccer. So they’re going to battle back and forth and you see when they score a goal, it celebrates with those life and my son would love has that story for ages. 6 to nothing, not even
Up. I mean, I love to play with it. So adults as well. Get the whole family involved and got the scoring right in here. So easy to use. Easy to use winningest his eye. He alley. If you do brave going outside. Yeah, look awesome. >> Aren’t they? So these are squishmallow friends rates
Which models are so popular. These are the switch to all snow to some big mouth. We have are 3 friends here. We have Winston the Alfie few, the FOX and my personal favorite Beni of the big but he adorable. So it’s so cute. They’ve got
The starting handles on their durable for cold weather. So the really stick up in the snow. So this is perfect for your squishmallow offense talking about the slow and if you don’t want to go outside and brave the snow, we’ve got a mandate outlooks here have done it. Snowball fight. I love
These. Yeah. So this is one of my favorite games. This is Yeti Snowball. So what they’re going to do is they’re going to flip cards to see how many snowballs they can stack up. The goal is to try to get to 10 C everybody’s going to get in the
Fight here because the if you called the Yeti Snow brought a card, it’s an all out. So Rossi, just the other stocks over with the snowball. You try to get that hands, too, because it gets out aggression and nobody gets hurt and nobody gets that perfect for India. Haha.
>> And super fun. We’re going to post snow balls all over this today. Ali, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Just ahead, it is start today. We are correcting some common exercise mistakes to make sure.
>> You’re getting the most out of your workout. Then later in the week out one of my family’s favorite dinners on a cold night 20’s. So we’ll be right back. a peek out the window I just want to. This is truly a pinch me moment right here at
Fenway Park. We like very much like yourself. >> We’re back now on this holiday morning weekend. Today’s Peter Alexander, Laura Jarrett are with me for. >> Started a workout for us this morning. I did not know this was a job requirement, but here we are. And this time
We’re fixing some common workout, mistakes you may not even realize you’re making here to help us assist us expert and physician Doctor Ian Smith. Glad to see him. Here he is the best-selling author of over 20 books, including The Met Flex Diet.
>> Hello, How are You? Good. Yeah. I mean, a lot of haha need to know how do I need a lot of fears. Here’s the idea for this year and every year some different wanted to exercise our 15 minutes or less. Some people say I don’t have time. I’m I’m too busy.
>> These are simple at home or in your hotel room exercises you can do as I create these 15 minute exercise. You can do so. These are for groups that we’re going to right. The first squats, great squats, work on your quads and work on your
Hamstrings. They were. Your flesh is already going now to make common mistakes, for example, can go down and you see, first of all, her shoulder that around. >> That’s not going to watch your back to back shoulders back. Secondly, for example, her knees are going and you
Don’t want that because that takes away from the contraction of interior at doctors also hurt your knees and last. But she’s not going down low enough. So you want to get down low so they go get sound only sitting in a chair and something that actually break the chair and get down that
Way. You’re getting full contraction of the muscles and they’re doing it safely. Not hurting a little bit outside the legally blonde like snow. You can do this with weight without weights bans. Okay. Okay. So this is our squats. Okay. Got next place. Get off the plane to great.
Great for your core, right? But the key here with your place to your core is engaged. Probably so. He’s got to get down to play position to okay. We’re at something on your shoulder tap now. Here’s the key. People put their but to
Lie which is like this don’t want to do that or they go too low right before they put their chest down to. So you want to be up. You want to show you a nice line running down from the shoulders down to your ankles and then you want to show that
Have something to watch. This is not happy children. Just don’t talk a lot quicker. I get great. Haha. But keep your body a silent hero. See this way. Your core is engaged the entire time to make it look good feel. So if you do
Any of those mistakes from don’t engage the core and you get less of contraction, less to work out. So that is what’s up while you’re playing with shoulder tap. So I still in my time here, you’re going to go here is doing just that.
He’s got this bicep curls. These are great bands. By the way, you can find chained bans because you can change the resistance. Now, here’s the K people like to work on the 3 most air, their biceps. The break, a read-out center breaking, Alice, but you have to isolate. And so people make
Mistakes. The first thing to go too fast, right? That’s going too fast. Don’t go too fast. Align yourself to have it. Contraction going off and the subsequent contracting going down to slow down. Secondly, keep your elbows. Talk to your side. When you talk to almost there you go. That were
Isolating the biceps. The last mistake people make, which is really sad as people sway at the end of the goal here. And that’s why they’re doing it. Stu, having do you want to have your weight so lower way? A little bit. So look at this. We’ve got nice, nice and easy isolates.
The biceps keeps reform together. And this is how it goes into a proper bison. >> You know, face like that, doctor, what’s the value of the chain? >> Yes, so all of these bands are rate because you can actually grab from a different light. Just to have also on my
Website, Fun Fitness pros dot com. You can check. Those are anywhere. Every book a lunge lunches, right? Here’s the key with lunges, guys. The can couple things. One is you want to make sure when you go down that your money does not go
Forward of your toes like this. You don’t want that. So you want you need to stay back. There you go. Nice, Peter. Okay. The second thing is you don’t want your heel. The goal of this is not the proper launch. Okay. No good. So keep your front foot flat
Here. Then we’ll do it and you watch your back foot to be about an inch to 2 inches above the ground because sometimes go too far from home or you go through. Shorten. Not doing the right. So here we go. Ready, opposite arm off. Hold their comeback. Well, the wait, hold it.
And there’s a long, okay, doctor and backwards. Both you can do both and you don’t recommend heels for this, right? What? You can do it with weights with man’s without fans and do it. >> Yeah, there’s rain will hear. Thank you so much.
Scan a QR code or head today dot com slash start today to get our newsletter and join our online community and do better than may not. >> All right. Coming up next since we worked out, it’s of course, time to a good market can make out this morning.
We’re making the perfect winter meal, a tortilla soup that will help warm. Yeah. We’ll be right back. It’s time now for cooking McAllen. This dish is one of my family’s favorite, especially on a cold winter night. It’s a tortilla soup that’s actually inspired by a Mexican
Restaurant. My mama used to go to when she would visit and wreckers. Take a look. >> It’s another edition of cooking with cow. What are you making today? The TSA tortilla soup. I did all the hard work. I chop the carrots. Onions, the celery, the red pepper and the car. Right and left.
This is a key need for good. I was watching thing. There’s you. We have to cook the chicken. The case. A look at what’s in this hot. These are all the scraps from all the other veggies. So now that has some water and the chicken to this policy salt,
We’re going to boil the chicken and fish credit and it will go perfectly in our city. Somebody just put it into these troops. This is what I do. So instead of just boil chicken in water, all the celery scraps and scraps, the carrots craft to add flavor to the chicken is better
Land years later. How layers of I’m hoping we don’t want that to that incident. That’s going to slow. >> We need you to get all the ingredients and I have carrots. salary. And garlic fees brings up the center for a little while longer doing that. She needed 13 district.
It strips. We need to read is up a little bit. OK, what’s the one thing that’s missing are >> These recipes and more than just a dot com slash. >> Dylan, I think I’m almost demolished home will also go so
Glad you like my favorite part is the way you serve it at this restaurant. They would put the avocado and tortilla strips in the bottom of the bowl and the top. >> When pressed today, drone tortillas, just but it’s also it’s not hot like this is the kind of thing that’s not just
Perfect for like a cold winter day. But if your kid is sick or something, yeah, good veggie soup for you. Can you can have a house off? I? Yeah. If you wanted to front, I just know what to leave out for my family. Thank you, guys. Thank you right back. Thanks to count.
As sex life in so many happy our guys tomorrow. The 3rd hour of today after Lucy Hale and that call for LIVE in Studio. One a coming up on Hoda and Jenna, a preview of tonight’s Emmy Awards today to watch some football too. >> Today, fashion influencer and New York housewife side is
Still that brings us for winter. Must haves. It will be the woman inspiring kids to excel at the arts. And Donna’s got a big surprise in store for them. Plus a preview of tonight’s Emmy Awards. >> Studio one a and Rockefeller Plaza with holdout. It all starts
Going to be a good day to you now that I know it’s going to be a good day because she now Jones is here. >> I mean, and Chanel was one of those people. I know you guys probably watch the hour prior to this one is unclear if
I do. But if you do check it out, this girl is like a flashlight that when she shows up in a room, it frightens of that is no crying today, though it happens and there are people who are lit inside and no matter what happens in their life, the light is there.
So we’re happy they’re here, especially on this day on this day, Martin Luther. So you’re going to cry. So can I say something saying he’s don’t? Yeah, of course. Okay. So walking out with you right now. I have like a little
Bit of ash that can tell you why he’s going to put it out there. So as you guys know, ran the marathon course. And there was people who hold up signs that would say all toenails go to heaven for that. My toenails were going to, by the way,
When you run a lot, they do follow it. But my just a little bruised. This is the first time of war in the shoes because they’re delightful. But walking with you just a second ago. But I kind of feel than it is.
I thought that was going. Yeah, I’m so way it’s for one 0nd. When you said the marathon, I just had a very strong, strong memory of standing with your entire family are all really yeah. You’re today show family with signs and cheering and watching you
Do what you did. And I still remember, you put I saw your kids scream in delight, Clara, especially the almost one to run over and tackle you and one by one. Everyone had that same look like our girls. Thank you. Tried to Mara. I tell you my totals in prison,
You go back. No, but I but I just think that was such a that there are defining moments like for your kids. I my mom ran a marathon when she was 16 and I remember watching her and I remember the finish line. I remember running up the hill
Up that you would your memorial. And I remember that I from that day forward. I always thought to myself if she could do that, I can do this. So whatever you taught yourself, excellent. But what you talk to in 2 years as cute kids,
Thank you that that was my that’s my hope. And you know, for me, that was the first time where my world my world came together. You know, when you get married and you’ve got like your college friends and your work, Granger, that was my
Wedding to have you on my corner and Dylan and Savannah and then kinds first baby sitter from Philly. Yes, his in-laws from Nigeria to Chicago to hear that it was everybody was on one corner. So where we are and tunnels are fine because we’re sitting good. How are you going to talk
About? MLK Day is a great day of service. So we just want to shout that everybody take a minute more. We’re telling this to ourselves to something, even just to do something for someone else. It doesn’t have to be sure pain of home or do
Something because sometimes what so to just did for me, you can do that for someone was just wait. Yeah, sweet girl today. But which makes beautiful kids, children are stepping up to it. All right. So there is a bustle article that we saw and it’s it’s entitled this an ode to the
Corner store, my 3rd place. But this kind of interesting, the writer is really kind of paying homage to just a just a corner store, a Delhi, a bodega, whatever super at was on your corner. Do you have one? You know what’s funny? I was just remembering I group in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Okay. And I have some 3 memories of Morgantown, my address there now. Still the house, a house there and somebody was there. My phone number. I remember it because we have to remember home numbers. You remember yours, too. You remember your home. Your first, your first number.
It weird is. So we all remember and I remember because you had to know what, because when you’re out front, there weren’t a million numbers only had to no one. And the 3rd thing I remember is there was a store called Harry super at and it
Was you went down this big hill and there was a tiny store that all the kids loved because there was some candy. And then there are all that stuff. But it was so part of my growing up. But I remember, can we go to Harry’s after-school?
Can we stop any reason? Parents would say yes, sometimes. And those like Mister Rogers neighborhood was like, put your village part of our little Villa. Yeah. What about now? Now? They’re bodegas on the corner right now. The got, you know, it’s like, you know, the guy, you know, the person.
And when I first moved to New York, I remember my mom. Can I sit? It’s 2 big here. I don’t know. Anybody is too big too big. And there’s a, you know, big buildings 1000 people in your building to a CBS nearby. In know anybody for it.
My mom was there for 3, 4, days. >> When she was dentures like, Oh, did you see Muhammad that the book that he knows my coffee and he would hand much by Sami I go. How do you have to know him? >> She knew all the pain. She made a community before she
Left which was setting the table from a marathon. It’s 69 community. Yes. Maybe that she’s quite the rocks. Yeah. Did you have any of those little stores? Yes. And even now in the city it’s become a caught West River Drive. What’s it called was raining. Riverside, Riverside Drive is
My 3rd place. Okay. It’s like you have your work. You have home. But that place is kind of its it’s mine. It’s where our run. That’s right. Go as I think I love it because I said, oh, there is just it speaks to me. Different buildings are lit
And shot. It’s just for you. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you need that place. I like that. All right, OK? So here’s a story that’s kind of weird and catching a lot of attention because it’s going to resonate with a lot of people. I think
So. This man opened up about a dating dilemma. So we started dating this girl. I was dating for a few weeks and they’re in their late 30’s have been dating for a while. And the guy says the recently as girlfriend has developed a habit,
She’s using a baby voice when they’re alone together. When I heard the producers say this, I thought why. >> Still come up. If he can do, can you? >> Why do you why? Haha? >> The guy says he can’t take it. He doesn’t know if you can take. Did you ever use that?
>> You probably I was a this is kind of different when I got married. >> Have Lily Debbie Allen says Mike Cabbage Patch. Yeah. All my dad. Haha. Okay. And Hamas that I had to get rid of the campus for K that part your child, but she and her husband
With these. Can you please absolutely not making any one time like no, never. I mean, even, you know, people say by Boomer beer, well, that you don’t call him anything other than his name, the family. We just called by saying, No, I’m trying. We’re trying to be better that I could not
Unlike PDA MPD, a person all hands outside. Know it drives everybody in my family. Crazy like my grandma just the other day. She was like, you know, make a huge yeah like that. I just I we’re just not. Did you were you exposed to PDA
When you’re a little know, okay. I sometimes you either do what they did, where you might. You know, it’s funny, my eye. I wasn’t and I’m not. But my parents, if photographs tell the story, you know, you’re like you don’t remember, but kids all over that. They’re like game my mom, my dad.
I still remember the day. My mom like jump to my dad’s lap and we were all like horrified happening in front of a while. But it does teach because you do teach your kids the motion. That’s it. And this is love can look like this.
And it’s like, no, I’m not trying to show you want a corner somewhere like this is from that. >> Matter, done it. You know, there’s no no one time my whole life. >> Have I kissed a guy public? It was. I broke up with the
Chain college towns like and we’re at some random place in Chicago. And you made out with a straight guy. And that was like them. It does show that was the whole time. That was the whole time to stop myself the whole time. Well, what’s so
You are that, you know, I just have because sometimes you just lost in the moment. You can’t believe that it’s happening. You’re in my at a furniture store on a street corner. Welcome for all the information I’m getting America. They call it the departed to certainly and yeah, and you know him,
Too, OK? So know. I’m not tell you this live in New York. You know? Yeah, you know. Okay. So there it is. Guys. A viral hot chocolate that is taking New York City by storm. So local tourist puts it. People are lining up for hours
To get this cup of cocoa. Have you seen it if I have not Syria? Oh, my gosh. I’m so yeah Auld. How do we pronounce it? The law allows law. Are you from blossom? I’m filling in for Jenna Bush Hager. And I think, listen, oh, my God,
I’m so honored. So Sasha, you’re here. These are you guys how that, first of all, how did this come to be? This is amazing and tell us what it is exactly like 2 different hot chocolates. One on the left is our new flavor that were making
Just for you, which one to one of the cookie and it’s OK to cookie s’mores. Okay. And then our other classic this your first flavor is our classic so more. So how do you tell us how you made this? So you there’s marshmallow around the rim.
Tell us about it at a house made marshmallow meringue. All I would just be that we developed that gets pipes around the room, my gosh, rim and then torched. And then a little bit fresher cream on top that we make. >> Oh, my God.
>> Well, I’d say this on my Instagram. Yeah. I made to turn pink. I say this semester and when they told me your comments today, your wait a minute, I get why people wait and wait and wait. It looks really good. It’s so delicious to really
Taste is not funny that you made us more kind of thing on the outside. This is wait a minute. And what this one especially for us because you add the cookies. Yes. Okay. To to come to the ring around the side and then a different
Look. Look, look, look what he did, what they did to get the top. You’re going to a week and I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do was so much happening. What he discovered an Anna and a strong cone and a strong. Yeah. Oh, my gosh.
These are hot and the cookies going for as well. By the way, worth getting free. Okay. And you are. You’ve got your New Year’s bars to write about my family. Yes, they bars is a an awesome, awesome, awesome spot. New York City and one who
Has come to New York City is gone there. Yeah. You’ve created something of a masterpiece. Sasha, thank you so much. I can’t really came. Another one says all lives. It’s been it’s been wondering what do they just not show a chairs chairs. Thanks. Thank you guys for all right. Coming
Up next with your friend like your outfit that wants to buy it. Is it okay to teller way? Got it from with this. This girl code for this after this. boost as we go? Sometimes we just 2 things. >> Time to help our fellow females in the segment. We like to call Girl.
All right. First my friend recently complimented me on a dress. I wore an ask me where I got it from. I’m flattered but I also don’t want her to own the same dress. Am I breaking girl code? If I tell her I can’t remember.
We’re still not like that around. Here. Are your breaking girl code breaking it UK or where you got your dress? There’s enough. He won. I think I think there is a weird I I’ve never understood this. But it seems like it’s a theme. Yeah. Whatever. Like whenever I’ve gone to an event and
Someone says, Oh, my gosh, we’re wearing the same dress. I don’t care. >> I don’t I don’t I believe that. But I’m not like. >> We both were up. You’re not running the change to snow, but but I don’t I still don’t understand why 2 people don’t
Have the same taste who wind up at the same event with a dress. That’s that’s a that’s a really I don’t know. I can explain that. I understand why people feel horrified. They want to feel like they found something. That means is that you need,
Right, right. And you don’t need that affirmation. So yeah, I think about that the year. Where would you tell you would say absolutely. Yeah. And also it’s going to look different on you or you say you know what? I got this one. So you have to
Get book. Yeah, great. And it will be twins. Yeah. I mean, if you don’t want them to wear the exact same thing but speed giver because it comes back to you read the next one, please, OK? My friend just started teaching classes at my gym.
I love my usual coach to have to switch over to her class now. So she’s teaching she’s teaching. That’s awkward. I’m not sure what you do it because I don’t think I want to go that class know, want to say I like my clouds like that.
But I think I would say, you know, I love you a lot, however, for this one-hour, I’ve sort of gotten this rhythm with his other class. And I really love it will take years occasionally. But I’m going to I’m going to
Stay. But just so you love that because I think part of it is they feel is an affront like, wait, you know that I’m not good at what I do, but we’re friends. This is my passion. Don’t want to share in it. You can say that. Yeah. I think
If you you’re taught us. Yeah. And also she still gets a break. You get a break light and that’s what we plan coffee after so we can do a catch. Okay. If you think there’s a last look at my friend just came over to my new place for
The first time I asked her if she wanted to tour and she said I already Zillow to it. Am I right to be offended? You can be offended on that and then I don’t know if you’re coming back. Wait. I already Zillow that. Are you kidding
Me? That’s something you should keep just about the time your friend tells the same story for the 3rd time. You just listen to it because you’re used to go. Okay. She loves the story when word you. You definitely should. I think the idea that
Your friend Zell and it is telling you more, but they’re not really front. She’s not really friends now because it’s not about what it is. It’s about your take on it like this where I think I’m going to have my exor. This is where this is
Going to happen or this or that. You know what? This house is so amazing. Ivy little, but I can’t imagine what? Yeah, that’s it because that is that the house. But you I’m sure going put thus I like that this, Carol, if you’ve got a
Good question, tell us all about to go to agenda, dot com and at the connect. But all right. Up next, I’ll start side is still the shows us the winter looks. She’s loving right now. Maybe we can rock after this. >> It’s so good. Still happy your daddy saw.
We love you, Jenna. I love you. >> Castle help us freshen up our winter wardrobes high low. I Q YES. Way at we still loving the Real Housewives. What’s happening there? >> I am. I’m still loving my brand. New 5 extra friend said how my extra buddies were going to lunch tomorrow, actually.
>> He turned the real extra friends. Yes, at some of the more than other. But, you know, they’re still there, Mike, their maker. Okay. You’re enjoying its to SA. You’re saying Israel was OK, you have to tell us. But yeah, your day
Today to okay. So we talk fashion. I would her status at an Israeli having. Yeah, it is. When we stand up so that it is having a he if you have to also cute, I you know, I peered it was just like an oversize white shirt. Yeah. Even if you have a
Husband, a boyfriend, take it from that looks. So she I know I don’t think it would not too sure. And I sat in skirt, you know, I’m going to have to come over and over. Yeah. Just like like you to see you guys. But I was I let’s make it
Happen, OK? So I want to do another look at 3 trends to trends. First trend. Okay. What is our first trend? I have some models here today that work point to you. >> Shell was rushed trend and this is been a drag. I feel like it when church turtle. That was that going
Tresses are very comfortable but yet very versatile and you can also layer them up. I love that. We layer this up with an oversize coat. Oversize coats are also having a really big alignment right now. I know that’s just me. I’m only shot
On tell you where I would go to a doctor on Instagram page. A lot of rain. What’s it like oversize and then it just looks like to begin not silent. Yeah. I think it can feel it. I think what you start looking a little like you’re getting
Lost in the jacket is wearing you wearing it. That is a telltale sign that she looks fantastic. The price planned this dress is really great. It’s also something that you can kind of wear in tonight as well. Good. Nice job. All right. Let’s bring out our rainy off the shoulder is back.
Yeah, off the shoulder is definitely back. I’m doing 2 different combination there. Now we see off the shoulder in several different fashion shows over the years. But now it is really making a big comeback. I love again another not just you, but now we have a version that is off the shoulder.
It feels really good like let’s show off those clavicle. Ryan, I hats of flattery as certain cuts are firing on most people and that’s one of them. I think it looks great on both of them. And then on this I have beat looks of we are doing
More just the top area. So it still looks very polished. It looks like in its classy and you can go ahead and put your hair back in, if you would like, you know, just later the necklaces as rainy day. And I really like that. And then also
With a statement, jewelry, silver jewelry is really coming back in style. Her silver? Yeah, I’m a gold girl was night. Yeah. I have to kind of replenishing. Hank spent a lot of them look fan task that we love it. I love it. Yes, thanks, guys. Thank you so much. All right. Now pinstripes
And you try and I love to be Victoria pensions to this beautiful classic, elegant. I’m still awake, said we’re doing a twist to this case is going to be more of the girl on the rise. She can go for coffee cause. We’re mixing it with the dad
Sneakers. Don’t throw away the dad sneakers and at defined ads. Here is something that you would see a dad where okay they’re chunkier. Sunny. I know what we’re thinking. Que arcane them look good or yes. So many different ways. Women are also wearing them with dresses. And you know what
I bring? She said that she ice cream ice cream sauce. The set with all the acts that slouched her fantastic on Victoria and you can also mix and match. I love this piece so much because the jacket you can wear with jeans and then the trial
Jurors, you can also deal with a blazer and again, a jacket or even at a trench coat in the spring. Love it on the bottles outright lie. I refuse to looks that we can all do. Yeah. Those are doable than that skirt the law. I’m coming over
To Tahoe. Doesn’t want the U.S. off the Baja. >> And girl, you’re going to see a scene like lot. We’ll we’ll do it. Okay. You bring them to you by the way, this the social carried a tonight for a lot of the looks. Looks
Beautiful. All right. You can catch sight, of course, on the Real Housewives of New York, our sister network Bravo and also streaming on Peacock Side. Thank you. All right. Up next, feel good. Comfort food shepton are well shows us his mama’s Chicken Pot Pie after this.
So tell us that finish line in style. News anchors on one wall to you. I love this stuff. When it’s cold outside, we crave warm comfort food and nothing is the spotlight. Chicken pot pie sounds good. Many say. And Chanel chef Turner Dwells is a cookbook.
Author, host of the popular show is called New Soul Kitchen. That’s on trio TV. And you’re here today because we’re about to share your mom’s homemade recipe. This is big that you’re revealing. Says yeah. And the QR code, of course, is right there on the screen for ingredients to the
Rest. How are you? I am good. Happy New year to year. Good to be back. >> Yes, this is my mother’s signature part Paris that I highlight out of my cookbook in one of the things I love saying about this book. It gives you all of this was so, you know,
We’ve gotten some nice that character. We always say you dice. Lot of people wonder how do you dice a good care of her? She slides down the center’s laying on the side. You can put it on the left side was just line them up and Papa Papa Papa
There from there is all about the film’s. We’ve got details. We’ve got green as we’ve got sweet peas. We’ve got cameras, all those because that’s not worry and think, yes, it is to play a role to play with gone. So this goes right into a pot
Over our chicken here. UNC to UConn time. I say yes, yes. In Cajun seasoning. Know way. What now? KU season a guy that, you know, I’m a southern boy here. Yeah. When you start to your taken down, you’ve got the flames from the cheating at
Those best. You can cook the chicken down a little bit before you throw the edge. And yes, you do. You do. I need this. The thing I would say people love short could their home. If you don’t want to go to cooking the chicken,
Go to your local grocery store. Find tickets already could get a little tired of Joplin. It’s a very kind. And now what are we adding now? It’s about the room we’ve got to. We’ve got to we’ve got to get stock one and that he and but now for
Your going to be in there right now, equal parts of flour and butter wound. A lot of people depend on where you from your color room, a colleague right now and the Grammy living heavy cream. That was good and he would make him mad. I was
Watching my mom in the kitchen making is it was it was like him in the special walking need. Yes, melted and a little cautious. All cracked black Pepper k great unease. Want to get all of this at home. Yes, it is. All of this.
Look at this. You do happen to his house mirror. What love rose, you know, stop to have you started getting getting this right because that could be it could be. It could see. We know what’s important. What a good popeye cream of the crop. But see, you’re talking about crust sonego go together.
I mean, you’ve already poured that into. You know what’s what you do is what you get. I want to say that taking you gotta Potter. You fill up these guys. You left your ram because you do ramekins 2 balls. Whichever you like to hear them. Puff
Pastry. What you did. You get that mic and just in the fridge rated second, even Taiwan and more of that. I say you should be good. And and eventually I got a nice cool for duty in ditches around the size. The nonprofit make all my
Goodness them onto land and bringing cause. I want to have Bob low little slits or as my mother would do see will be one would see what actually could make. Sanjay Sinha, you know, this is new ground. You cook it. These are you want to cook for roughly about 20 minutes because remember,
Everything is done. You chicken down in the making of Marion County. You can make a big one to know right foot a family and they found the car come from a big family. So, yeah, it was all about so much time and money at the same time.
>> Getting that love. And it was almost like a big coal guy. And, you know, you know, you get a yes, no sounds about this berry salad. Berry said always said what a good pot pie or any savory dish. You want to have the greenery me growing up on a
Farm. Look at that. Look at that and say that’s what that’s what that’s our lot in our my God. Thank you. Joe Group growing up in the self is always important, as I say to have nice green, read a balance. Everything cry.
A lot of vegetation, you know, make it out or you’ve got could you maybe got? >> You’ve got all of or you can use avocado. All also you can substitute your honey for agave. What a sweet new warning labels on Mic global summit. You know to bring it together.
I sit together and now we’re making a salad dressing. Okay. Haha or know a lot of people get intimidated. Yeah. Could your friends that examine what I like? Do we take the fresh vegetables? >> We’ve got to try to get a ruling that Aruba gives it a
Nice pepper. Really. We’ve got Barry’s here. Strawberries, all of these. You can get you a given time. She’s going to do it all this right here. I love a good mozzarella from nice, fresh light and allocate. You want to just bring it in the air tomorrow night? Are the walnuts. Adds something
Special. Ask him to like me. >> Warren a let’s just get this recipe. Yummy. Delicious. Thank you. To use a a dot com slash food. >> All right. Up next, how one woman is bringing the arts to kids in her community. And Donna has a big surprise in store after this.
Let’s that’s out of the Baha I started. I want you I think is right. >> I miss you so much delicious. >> Announcer: THIS IS A DECISION 2024 ELECTION ALERT. HERE IS LESTER HOLT. >> GOOD EVENING FROM NEW YORK, EVERYONE. NBC NEWS CAN NOW PROJECT DONALD
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CONVICTED OF A CRIME. >> ALL RIGHT. THANKS VERY MUCH. FOR CONTINUING COVERAGE OF MORE IOWA CAUCUS RESULTS, HEAD OVER TO OUR mentor students who want to pursue the arts. It offers lessons and visual arts dance music and stage production as well as an outreach program in public schools touching the
Lives of as many as 22,000 students over the past. 24 years, once they hit that stage, you just literally see their face. And it’s they’re they’re different kids literally in 3 months contests. His passion has reached beyond Milwaukee with the success of her former students like today,
Along and professional dancer, Josie Thompson, who has performed alongside stars like Doja Cat and John Lewis who join today is the kid and recently returned to teach a new generation of artists being in this room. What kind of memories come up? >> I’ve been trying to live pinpoint the exact where it’s but
>> culture here ease is so war in everyone supports each other in their endeavors. What is your biggest hope for the kids here to leave knowing that what they’re doing is aligned with their passions and purpose, whatever they’re doing, they are proud. >> That same purpose, passion and creativity carries on it.
They need to be serious times. We know we’ve got a pushy. >> But then at the day that whole day, we said now we talk we have one is more like a family than just evening. >> To support the mission. We had a big surprise waiting for contessa.
>> A lot of people have heard about your story. Wells Fargo told us but they were inspired by T they arts center and how committed you are to putting communities and people first. So we have a little surprise for you. Wells Fargo in donating.
>> $5,000 to 2. They are. Oh my gosh. Haha. >> What a great love that. Love that, Donna. Up next, what’s your favorite TV shows and actors will win big tonight. We have here in East preview after this. a peek out the window
I just want to. This is truly a pinch me moment right here at Fenway Park. We like very much like yourself. >> After months of waiting, the Primetime Emmy Awards are finally happening to night. Here with a preview of what to expect as New York live entertainment correspondent Joe.
>> He we’ve been waiting for these entities, right? So what happened to everyone’s like the Emmys? Yeah. >> You’re so these are last year’s Emmy Awards voting closed at the end of August. The awards show was supposed to take place in September. But remember the strikes that I
Also I like to say, those metaphorical envelopes have been sitting there scaled for 4 months, but the show goes on Monday night. Time for them to get their do that. And yes, yes, state. Yeah. Oh, okay. I’m very what about this secretly? Because I’m like, okay. Well, Anthony Anderson is
Hosting a I think of Anthony Anderson. I think of Tracee. Ellis were also I know is like one of our favorite. I hope she’ll be there, too. But I think he is an excellent pick. A host of he released a statement and I think this is
Going to kind of tell us about his style. He said with our industry’s recent challenges behind us, we can get back to doing what we love dressing up and honoring our sell. It’s like that’s the vibe that have fun show. Yes, Mam, too.
So he’s been haha. All right. So we can get to every single category. Let’s break down some of them. Okay. Do you expect first of all, headline a big winner, succession secession. So going into the awards show succession leads the pack with 27 nominations. Is the show that everybody is talking
About. And you know what? It’s up for the coveted award of the night. Best drama series, Pay it. It’s going to take looking at some lead actors that we’ve got. Our big was a very competitive. I’m so happy that you bring up Caylee
Back to the areas. And here’s why. So this category, it’s very special this year to meet any history. We have 3 actors from succession, right, all of for lead. So we’ve got Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong. They’re going to be going up against Pedro Pascal for the last of us, Jeff
Bridges for the Old Man and Bob Odenkirk for Better Call Saul. This is now that this is a great county right now here in Polk and is favored to win. He just on the Golden Globe. Gavin and I were testing about this going on and one if there
Is an upset, expect that to come from Bob Odenkirk for Better Call. Saul was the last time he can win and Emmys. Love doing something like this where the award somebody for their last season it should be Karen’s if there’s not upset
Bob Odenkirk but this is this is one to watch. All right. How about lead actor in a comedy? Oh, I’m so happy that we’re talking about the >> Yeah. That okay. The nominees are we have Bill Hader for Barry. Jason, Segel for shrinking Martin. Short,
Only murders in the building. Jason’s today kits for Ted Lasso and Jeremy Allen White for the bear. So what I want to talk about this because I think everybody needs to be watching the Bears. Have you seen a very I have seen some of the initial
And you won that one. The other one he won the of this is a phenomenal show. Jeremy is going to take it. So if you’re so sure I’m sure he’s going to take it. So if you’re not familiar with the show, he plays a and award-winning chef
Becomes home to Chicago to take over his brothers sandwich shop and his brother passes and there’s a catastrophe every single day. It is some of the best TV I’ve seen in a really long time. And everybody is talking about Jeremy cause of that county’s Callahan added more snow up. There are okay to
Remember, though, that you said that Hollywood like someone who is ending their series yesterday. I know. I know. I love Jason today cause I do. But you also have to keep in mind the timing because we’re talking about last. Yeah, I got to about the mental state that are like 20 homeowners.
Yeah. Let’s do best actress in a drama. Okay. Not much to talk about here. I think succession is going to succession is going have a pretty big sweep. So again, phenomenal actors up, but Sarah Snook succession. She’s going to take it. All
Right. How about a comic series, OK? So what we want to do, the best supporting actress in a drama Happy’s Do this and that is a good one is a very, very exciting category out of the 8 nominees. Also a kudos for you guys to be able to see
That part of the hour. Looking right here, OK? So we have got 5 actresses from the White Lotus out of these 8 nominees, Jennifer Coolidge and for all the on them. So she is favored to win. Now, here’s a with, but there are some people you want
To win because of their performance. You want that for her. But just imagine the acceptance speeches, Funk says words fun again, like that’s what we’ll be talking about that. All right. We think case comedy series. Listen, if we if we pull the nominees, we take anything from this list is just
That TV TV is having its goal know right now that the TV is. So so so good. Keeping in mind voting. I believe this is out of elementary. Still my hopes. I do. I do. Yeah. If there’s an upset or competition will come from the bear, maybe Ted Lasso.
But again, going back to last year. I think I I I feel like this is out of elementary. I like about this award show. We don’t know. We know could get. But that makes it exciting. Yes, you know, because it’s not like a lock in
For everybody like we kind of we get. So, yeah, that’s for sure. All right. Yes, so we love you. Thank you that we’ve got a lot. He will be back right after this. We’ll just start post your questions. What can fans expect us for getting there?
>> It’s a Friday. There it is right here. >> Want to say thank you to some lovely human being chanelle Jones for hanging out there today. Tomorrow we’ve got Jamie Lee Curtis left out and help curb shares a sweet new project. But the offering Chris Appleton is given some lucky
Lady, some hair makeover. Some great day, everybody Fi. I’m a good day >> In the 1950’s 60’s 70’s Black owned restaurant were just places to get the 7 becoming crucial meetings after this at the forefront of the civil rights movement. The family still operating these reforms today are
Committed to honoring their historic like it. >> It’s time to head out of studio one a and hit the road for a new kind of culinary adventure. Follow me as I take some of the most eye kind of foods around the country and meet the families behind together, we’re going to learn
How a good meal has the power to connect this to our past our future. >> We’re in heart the epicenter of black culture in the United States. Many historians agree the Harlem Renaissance pave the way for the civil rights movement of the 1950’s 60’s.
So in this episode were traveling across the country to explore 3 legendary black owned restaurant for generations. The beloved leaders have been serving up dishes to historic figures and those fighting for change. First up, we’re heading south to visit and iconic establishment that defied segregation law.
>> New Orleans, a city that celebrates with food music, Nightline and history. In the Big Easy, you’ll find many historic sites. They played a vital role in the civil rights like William Frantz Elementary School, where 6 year-old Ruby bridges barriers in 1960. Well, New Zion Baptist Church activist and remains one of the
Oldest black neighborhoods in America. Here you’ll find the only rest on the U.S. civil rights straight. >> The Chase restaurant definitely is a historical landmark institution to on. >> This popular event is a living testament to a woman who changed the face of ongoing in America. Chef Leah Chase.
>> I was stellar. Chase Threes. And I am the president of the Copper Ation here to continue. Ended the chase before. And I second that show, too. >> Still as grant first open to change as a potent becoming a full-service restaurant in 1940. >> African-Americans didn’t have that place to celebrate.
To celebrate birthdays, to celebrate promotions, to celebrate good grades, weddings, proms. So they opened up a place where that could happen. >> But the next generation had a new vision for the future. >> Was my father and could chase junior and his wife. We lanes chains that continue the legacy that might
Grandparents started. >> Dooky Chase Junior was an avid jazz musician who promote some of America’s First integrated concert. >> His friendship with all the musicians, Ray Charles and Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan. We would hear stories of them after their performance coming here than a dozen times.
>> And Lia was determined to bring in elevated dining experience for her black people. >> She wanted the best China’s XI morning linens. She wanted them to be served the best they could be served because she didn’t want our community to be deprived than anything else and any other community had.
>> That community was on the brink of a revolution years in the making. >> Host 18 65 in the Emancipation Proclamation which the masses of African American people now worry the country was overwhelmed. Hierarchies needed to be re-established. It was important from a white supremacist point of view that
Black folks knew their place. >> By the late 19th century, Jim Crow laws legalizing racial segregation in the former Confederate states. Those laws we’re further cemented by the Supreme Court case Plessy versus Ferguson which upheld the separate but equal doctrine but Dooky Chase’s 5 of those laws welcoming patrons of all
Races to die and discuss political issues facing the black community. >> Their willingness in an openness to everyone in the community, make them of safety, get them of belonging. >> But that opened this also made the change family a target. >> There were times that we had people throw things in and try
To, you know, destroyed the peace. But that didn’t like my parents. They continued because they know what they were doing was the correct thing to do. >> By the 1960, Dooky Chase had become a go-to spot where activist could connect and strategize.
>> We had the opportunity to serve many of our civil rights leaders. Martin, the key Jesse Jackson rose up on 3rd March 2. The list goes on and on and then freedom bus ride as they came here. My parents realize that until we all learn to
Enjoy life together and get to that point where social justice would be for everyone that this community are any of the community in our country would not grow. It will not be better. >> And the 1970’s we’re becoming passionate about promoting black artists.
>> A love of art was also celebrating here at Dooky Chase’s when she gave African-American or does the opportunity to actually display their art on how? Well, because if a time they had no police to display their art. >> Her extraordinary life even becoming the inspiration for Disney’s first Black Princess Tiana.
>> Meant a lot for her because she did have some of the kids dress up. They come here. >> Leah Chase. The queen of Creole cuisine passed away on 6/1/2019, but her spirit. >> And her culinary traditions are and vigilant in capable hands.
>> This is the case of catching it set up the same way. And we love it like that because as you know, she’s still with us. He still watching. >> Just to continue to serve Creole cuisine. That’s been on the menu for decades from red beans and rice. Just shrimp Clements
And the famous chicken ala do. But the restaurant’s most popular dish gumbo. >> We think back to the civil rights era when we had leader strategizing and I’ve says time if Adam, do you think about presidents so day, President Barack Obama, President George
Bush came and we always thought of them with gumbo because my grandmother always believed that her combo solve any problems. And we like to say how gumbo change the course of America. >> Gumbo in official state food to Louisiana Dooky Chase’s version as a little something for everyone, not one but 2
Types of sausage, some Louisiana blue. >> We do is we take the top selloff. We clean it up and we just pack it in half. Really? Some of those flavors, chicken and shrimp coming up to forgot gumbo, simmering until that’s ready to serve. I mean, if you just smell the neighborhoods, everybody knows
That he tases him down. >> Today, the Chase Empire is expanding. Chef do. >> Just open the families who was best Chapter 4 in the 4th generation African-American refer to as few many generations. Now working side by side. >> The interim, my family as the biggest lesson.
>> With the selmon not going down to defeat. Changing it myself. Some gumbo but services, right? It 3, 2, >> The whole restaurant Dooky Chase’s that is a gift to the family that was given by my great grandparents. And so we want to make sure that the restaurant sustains that legacy
And all the traditions. We chased it. >> Food bills. Big bridges. If you can eat with someone you can learn from that. When you learn from someone you could make, we chose we contains the course of America and this restaurant over ball of gumbo. We can talk to each other and relate to
Each other. >> A trip to Harlan just wouldn’t be complete without a meal here at Sylvia’s Restaurant. This neighborhood, it’s Bush has been serving up soul food since 1962, what started as a small margin debt has now become a family empire, beloved by tourists, locals and plenty of famous. They said the
Corn borer was sweet. It was warm and it just reminded me of >> Took me back to my grandmother’s cooking. So I really enjoyed it. >> What brought me here today was that I was hungry and wanted some good, some food. So where do you go in our la Sylvia’s?
So food is the cultural. >> Identity marker really? My XYZ. Our journey. People living in America. >> Yes, Woods black is the granddaughter of the legendary Queen of Soul Food, Sylvia Woods. >> So if you grew up in Hemingway, South Carolina where
She met her, love her but will 11 and about a lot of people >> But this entrepreneur to be wasn’t content with life on the floor. >> My grandmother, she came to New York when she was 16. She knew that this was a place that was more palatable for African-Americans, select really live.
>> Sylvia and her were among the estimated 6 million African Americans left the Jim Crow South during the great migration. >> We had Cain, you know, north to escape all of the atrocities that were happening and to really be in control of their lives. You are
Black. You know, Harlem was the place to be. >> So the finding work at a diner Johnson’s luncheonette which eventually purchased from the owner with a loan from her mom. >> Mister Johnson knew that my car with me and on 8/1/1962 Sylvia’s Restaurant was point.
>> As the Cultural Center of Black America, Harlem became a crucial site for demonstrations organized by leaders like Martin Luther King Junior and Malcolm X, according to professor psyche Williams Force. >> The heart of civil Rights is America because it wasn’t limited to one area, though folks were in
The Northeast, still experienced poverty and inequality in voter suppression and homelessness will be made the restaurant a welcoming place for activists. >> She played her role as ensuring that the community leaders had a case to to me and said you strategize.
>> He was signed that. So he is a lefty of the day. The Ruby Dee, you know, these are actors and actresses that were on the front line. >> And by the 1960, the movement had achieved major games like the historic Brown versus Board of Education and successful boycott.
>> The racial discrimination and police brutality against black Americans persist resulting in deadly riots throughout the day to devastating events just 4 years apart. Spark destructive riots throughout Shelby as always. >> Allen was on fire and my grandmother have the restaurant open. The grocery stores were not open. Nothing was open. You
Know, people going to be there is and she was in the kitchen making food. >> So that this community would have something to eat. >> This strong connection with Harlem nights as continue for decades. >> We had guessed that with every single day and sometimes
We have people that you with us multiple times a day. >> I learned the secret to suit his needs. Sylvia’s in Harlem has been serving up soul food since 1962 and this native New York. Good way to get back to their historic dining.
>> Make it’s been way too long is too. I’ve missed you, too. But you know a thing about building into its like that. So yes, it’s coming home is coming home. >> The dining room walls showcasing famous faces and political figures along with treasured memories.
>> This picture is one of my grandmother’s favorite was wet and windy. And Nelson Mandela came to New York. >> When he was free eating here has become a rite of passage for many candidates. >> As a young man, I don’t know. One of the half of that
Is all I think he might have turned out. Okay. I think, you know, after a meal here at this is what set him on his part. That’s right. Check it. But the heart of so be it is hard protests enter have worked hard to stay active in the neighborhood.
>> From funding college scholarships for local teams to supporting Black Lives Matter is what is it about this restaurant? The country people coming. >> Weapons to city times love. So the is becoming so he is you know what you’re going to get.
You’re going to get some good that’s going to make you feel warm. >> Today over a dozen family members helped run Soviet empire, which includes a catering business, a successful food product line. >> What’s it like working with them? Because I know your brother, Marcus. Yeah, baby brother. My brother has that.
>> Watching my brother rode down in the kitchen is something that we always knew was going to happen. >> Executive chef Marcus Woods has been at the helm for 5 years. >> Sylvia’s Grants. So it is so good to see you. Yeah. And you’re back here. You’re running the kitchen. What?
What’s that like for you and me knowing that his legacy, your grandmother. >> I’m honored modest against people like you and community Harlem. So as long as I could do that at always on it last, you know, the amazing thing is food brings people together. You look at that that that dining room,
Everybody is that this was so we used to always say that the first time to come Sylvie is your guest. Second time. The family, according to Marcus Fried Chicken. >> The most beloved men you like. So did your grandmother take you out?
>> Yes, she taught me how to project everything down to the seasonings. You always say no moisture, ice check-in and their native like you put the most on the baby. >> I know I can’t get that image out of my one. Secret chef Marcus. First dry run to marry. You know, that’s just
Plain plane flown. Yeah, this is plain flour. Got a little coarse, black member to it on. I’m all in there. We just want to give it a little mix again. The baby, the baby. Like you’re tossing the baby after the chicken is coated, gets a general shift and gets into the deep fryer.
That looks like tender loving care, right? Oh, yeah. That was going to get in there with the baby to bed. We’ll let you know when they’re ready. Wake up. What’s the best part of working every day? When I walk in, I get to feel like my grandma. I feel her. I really feel
I’ve every time you go a little ways is by our the base worker. This might have known about everyone to she was. I’m going to try to after about 15 minutes, Golden perfection. That looks perfect years old while the seasoning boys wrist. >> We’re mother smiling, right? A Soviet project right there.
We did the baby while Marcus. This is fantastic. It’s so great to see you. If you don’t mind, I’m going to take this to go on the back of a home run to thank you. >> Welcome back in Oakland, California, lowest the pike has been serving up southern specialties, hospitality and of course.
>> I’ve used cars since the 1950’s. >> But it’s more than just a space for delectable food. It’s a well-known political activist, artists, musicians and everyday people to meet next and collaborate. >> Come on down to know is the pike. We get a job and then me
>> Well as the pike, which is serving up much more than a brunch. >> This is a great place for local succumb. Great place for people to connect. And this is awesome that I could come to a place like this. Have some soul food.
>> My name is Chris Davis and I’m owner of Laws. Pike Ring. We served proved that warms the soul. This family’s roots run deep in northern California. Lois Davis Chris’s month began selling homemade pies at her church in the 1940’s they were in. Instead, her husband,
Roland, dubbed her the Pie. And so a new business opportunities. My dad was a chef at TNT Foods in San Francisco and they combine both of their efforts to open that the restaurant and serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. >> In 1953, the duo opening their Oakland restaurant.
>> So my mother of and the restaurant for 40 years and started at 04:30AM in the morning for her and the 11 at night. And she was a pure perfection. This Lois perfecting recipes she enjoyed growing up. The recipes were my grandmother’s recipes. My
Grandmother was from taxes and they have maintained the test of time. All of the items that are on the menu. We’re pretty much on the menu when my mom started the restaurant. >> From key lime pie topped with raspberry jam to been in a cheesecake. Sweet treats are always popular, but there are
Plenty of savory staple that keep customers coming back every morning. And there’s one ditch with a special place in many folks heart. >> You might not find Santa croak. It’s on the menu anywhere in the Bay area. >> Some of her cats are part center. Part macro, yellow
Onions, salt and pepper tally and bread crumbs. >> These pro cats which originated in the south where a meal staple for many black family. Most black folks couldn’t afford craft, you know, once it became popularized. But in the absence of that canned fish salmon Croquettes became a major filler.
>> With a couple of cans, families could make an affordable yet. Delicious me Lewis’s dishes have brought in celebrities from Sammy Davis. Junior does end and sports icons like Reggie Jackson hear so often they actually named a pork chop special after.
>> So here’s my what Wall of fame and some of those special people that are up here. This is Black Panther Party minister Eldridge Cleaver. >> In the 1960’s 70’s lows, welcome members of the newly formed Black Panther Party restaurant is a short drive
From their community come. We’re activist up new at Bobby Seale. First met founding the party in 1966. Crist attended merit with both of them. >> I had Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, European to come to the restaurant. Civil rights leaders and organizers and community leaders would come
And meet and organize and strategize. There was a lot of electricity and the restaurant when they visited the Black Panthers have a controversial list. >> This story we tend to hear is one of violence. What we do hear about is what are the various lunch programs engine
Free breakfast. They saw a black communities as in and of themselves, resilient, capable of being self-sufficient. >> Lois and Chris were not members of the party, but it was during this air of the restaurant became an important gathering space in the Oakland community from different walks of life.
>> When people come and are needy and ask for food, we always do what my mom did, which was we always take care of them. >> We always give them a meal. >> The restaurant expanding this mission amid the pandemic providing 16,000 meals to locals in need.
>> It is a place for people to come and get together and trying to figure out how to make our community and our world a better place today. That mission to help others has evolved. >> Chris used as a platform to support local musicians and
Keep the restaurant. But by bringing in younger generation agreed with that. >> Aspect of music and musicianship is something that is in the U.S. the restaurant. Hey, Mister Jackson. How are you? Good. I’m good feet good. We recently started a music management company.
4 wise men detained that he and officially runs from the tables it lowers. >> It’s not an accident or coincidence that you look around and see a lot of photographs of, you know, famous post does a lot of people that he supports and only supports my putting up pictures that will cultivate
Young artists that are looking to get an opportunity to get a platform where they can be seen and heard. Would you like hash Browns Richer X? >> Chris is determined to keep the restaurant and his son. Cory Jackson has been overseeing the day-to-day of lows for nearly 5 years. Working with my dad
Gave me understanding not only the hard work my grandma put forward. >> And how much my dad is trying to fill those shoes. And now I’m trying to feel this. >> We’re hoping his son will share the passion for the family business.
>> They can’t stale and they have a job right now. A full so where it’s great to see my kids and their pop-up Chris Bond. >> Chris thinks that would be incredibly proud to see her restaurant continuing to thrive. We are the oldest black restaurant in the Bay Area.
>> Is a tribute to my mom’s efforts to support her community and 2 create a place that was a home away from home and a place to serve food that warm the soul. keeping the restaurant looking, for decades is no easy feat, especially in the face of adversity.
But with delicious dishes and unwavering hospitality, these are store hot spots with newer generation fighting for social change. These places now stand as symbols of resilience, inspiring and needed a new generation of community >> There are dozens of China towns all across America with interesting architecture diverse restaurants, and
Specialty shops, it’s no wonder they’re popular with locals and tourists alike. They also provide places for new immigrants and for families to create communities but with gentrification and all sorts of problems from the pandemic it’s no wonder that all these Chinatown are rapidly changing.
>> It’s time to head out of studio one A and hit the road for a new kind of culinary adventure follow me as I take some of the most I kind of foods around the country and meet the families behind together we’re going to learn
How a good meal has the power to connect us to our past our future. >> Okay so it’s no surprise there’s incredible food to be found here in Manhattan’s Chinatown folks lining up all the time, but there used to be Chinatowns in cities and towns,
Big and small all across this country. In fact the longest running family owned Chinese restaurant is in a place you might never think of Butte Montana. >> At the turn of the century Butte Montana was a bustling mining out the invention of electricity leading to a demand for
Conductors like copper. Mining boom, the city flourished the demand for labor book, thousands of immigrants to Butte they came from so many countries, including Italy, Ireland and China it was the classic portrait of the American West with gambling so lose. Red light district
By 1914 Butte China town was thriving with over 60 Chinese owned businesses. >> Now we’re going to prepare broadly beef and Jerry Tam and I’m the owner of the Pekin noodle parlor. >> The peak first opened as a tobacco shop and casino run by
Jerry’s great uncle yeah 2 years later, I’m adding a restaurant and the Pekin noodle parlor was born. >> This building has 3 different levels, the top level obviously is that Pekin noodle parlor and then the second level on the main Street used to be a herbal medicine shop.
>> That shop was run by Jerry’s great grandfather. Kim Kwan, it’s crazy to think that. >> Everything came over from China. >> At one time like they didn’t make soy sauce in America, the noodles for pride and brought over chefs because they didn’t make fresh kills so the history of this place really
Holds true that this is a Chinese restaurant from Chinese immigrants. >> I met up with culinary historian grace young to learn more about America’s earliest Chinatown where was the first Chinatown and how to get started. >> The first trying town is San Francisco, the first Chinese
Came to California. For the Gold Rush and that was 1848, and they can because America needed cheap labor and so from Gold Rush they ended up doing farming manufacturing and then eventually they worked on the transcontinental railroad and the first trying time for him because America wanted cheap
Labor, but they didn’t want the Chinese to live with lights so they were ostracized from white communities. >> So talk to me about that first wave of of Chinese immigration to the U.S.. >> The Chinese came from 7 Shiner from principally from the area can Tom and there was tremendous prejudice against
The Chinese they were Lynch and because the Chinese were willing to work for lower wages. They were seen as the reason why Americans are suffering so much of the blame was unfairly placed on the Chinese. >> In 1882 Congress side, the Chinese exclusion act into law.
It banned Chinese from migrating to the U.S. it marks the only time in American history that entire race or ethnic group was banned from immigrating. >> But the interesting thing about this exclusion act was that there was actually exemption for Chinese tourists students, teachers and also merchants.
>> A landmark court case in 1915, classified Chinese restaurant owners as merchants. >> And it gave them a way to circumvent exclusion act of 1882. >> It was this exemption that allowed Jerry’s great uncle to open Pekin noodle parlor in Butte paving a path for more
Family members to immigrate to the U.S. and help the business. Jerry father Danny want arrived in the U.S. in 1947 as a team. >> Ever since he was 14 years old he’s been working at the peak of little parlor and he just started with the support
Walls of Washington says, and then he learned how to cook and he slowly just started to grade himself into managing that and working with the director says the staff. >> Danny taking over the restaurant in the 1950’s spending years turning it into a pillar of the local community
I’ve been coming here for at least 50 years the give me plenty of food I never walk away hungry. >> I love coming to work because of all the people I work with like they choose really nice people and your father probably played over 10,000 people at this you know
Throughout this whole entire life. So it’s interesting to know that fish nearly 5 to 6 generations of people that you know have worked there. >> The menu of Pekin noodle parlor hasn’t changed much over >> We do what they call chop suey what shops who he is is to the years.
That of leftover vegetables that are kind of mix together some gravy and served on top of our main goals we’ve been sitting there for over a 110 years. >> Shops is in large part why Chinese became so popular across the United States. >> Chop suey was the first time America experienced a culinary
Craze, a food critics and it’s starting at the end of the 19th century that there are Americans who are venturing into trying to out the way they got them to even experiment with Chinese food was to make a stir fry that was actually quite bland so they used bamboo shoots water chestnuts onions
Oftentimes that were celery for many years. >> Chinatown’s with the only places where 9 Chinese Americans could sample Asian flavors. >> Americans are going to Chinatown some were curious. They watch experience curio shops, Chinese opera. >> With increased tourism Chinatown’s of large cities groove.
It was a different story in the tent like many mining towns Butte lost many of its workers as production slowed in the 1950’s. >> But the copper who ran dry and the people start to pick up and just kind of move it move on and move back to their families and the
Bigger states. >> As miners left Butte for new opportunities, it’s Chinatown disappeared in the early 1900 there were 7 chop suey restaurant listed in the Butte city directory today only the Pekin noodle parlor remains open. Jerry Tim runs the Pekin noodle parlor in Butte Montana.
>> People may know this is all the changes, fresh eye of America. Hello, it is so much history. >> Despite peak its historic status. Jerry says he was never pressured by family to join the business. >> I never learned to cook and tally came back back in round 2009. Because light,
Any Asian American and parents what are their kids to go to college so we all went to college is up around the nation and to get a better education to become a lawyer or a doctor and what have you but I would just caution and what is great
About that as I got to see the world because of it. >> In 2004 Jerry even appearing on Bravo’s project runway. But a few years later family duty calling him home. >> And the First Amendment had a stroke so my dad news help
You know taking care of her and take care of the restaurant, it was really my father because they were in a generation where they loved each other every day. And they were just best >> After Jerry’s mom passed Jerry and his dad begin friends. operating Pekin together.
>> He never stopped working so he was working here all the way up to 85 to we couldn’t make up the stairs anymore my father and I spent every day together at a church he was that he was healthy all the way to the air. The best of my ability I can
Do. My father passed in November. And it was really you know heartbreaking he didn’t want to say goodbye to my sisters are being here this restaurant or the community, he loved the Montana. >> Jerry now runs Pekin noodle parlor with his cousin Nelson together they’re working to preserve a family legacy.
Keep a piece of Chinese American history alive in an unlikely place. >> I’ve been asked the question was the future the peak and and the best answer I can give you is, let’s just keep it the wet start to change anything because that’s what people come state
Here for the and have their parking spots they have their boost they have their favorite place at the Mar think they want any change because this is a place that just Michael. >> While New York City is home to America’s largest Chinatown the honor of the older, those to San Francisco and that’s
Where the Far East Cafe is located it is one of the last remaining historic Chinese banquet Hall. After a two-year hiatus, this celebrated venue hosted the 64th annual missed Chinatown USA pageant a lunar New Year tradition. The occasion marking a triumphant milestone for the century-old institution.
>> Bill Lee has owned the farm I think since 1999 his daughter, Kathy working by his side as the manager. >> He put me into the restaurant to kind of understand the roots of our culture he wanted me to remember that you know China town is about community is about traditions is about
Culture. >> For many in the community Chinese banquet halls are more than just venues for special events. >> I feel that far East is kind of like a second home for you know a lot of our peaches that come in because they feel so
Comfortable so much history and so many memories, you know, a lot of patients that have been here they told me they’re like home. My parents had my rage in your party, it’s very similar to like about his and that was like 50 something years ago.
>> And that history is everywhere you look at far >> The ceilings like my dad mention the high ceilings moldings modems are all regional no match in trouble on 40 from China. In the 1920’s. So there are over a 100 years old. >> For the last few decades, there were 5 giant banquet
Style restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown but with rising rents and gentrification most have since close their doors. By early 2020. Only 2 banker has remained. >> The Far East Cafe planned to celebrate its 100 year anniversary with a big celebration instead it’s now planning to close its doors.
>> At the start of the pandemic the restaurant state afloat by cooking meals for senior citizens and low income residents in China to that cold but hahntown night we applied for it PPP loan suddenly got over $200,000. We also received money from the feed and flu program and our
Landlord gave us 6 months of free rent some thought beyond covid a different type of Irish brought more harm Chinatowns across the country. Anti Asian hate crimes soaring by nearly 340% in 2021. >> When this started happening, I felt very very sad and also
Very angry because I liked why is this happening to trying town why is it happening to our country we know for these people to target elderly people to pushing down to rob them don’t be realize that they have grandparents to or they have unsettled by Beach and the happened to their parents POW
With the field then. >> People saw the attacks when they watch the news and heard reports, and they got even more scared, they don’t want to go out even for special events like the mid autumn festival. We tried to invite them, but they didn’t want to come.
>> We used to be open until 10 o’clock before pandemic sometimes was stay out here until midnight if we had events now we can’t we can’t do that we changed the business hours to close at 7, 7, 30 because safety is the most important >> Business owners across China town still face hostility.
Thing. George and Cindy Chen open China live in 2017. >> We’ve been lucky, I’m we’re going to have a couple instances where you know people scream anti-asian slurs we’re concerned about our employees you know coming to work in and being harassed. I think that ignorance is very unfortunate.
>> China live is a massive market place with multiple restaurants, it’s in a building that once housed a banquet Hall like far East. >> I remember coming to away here when I was in college I who I think will be 5,000 people in life 6 restaurants.
But unfortunately, you know real estate was getting very expensive. So it’s not very cost effective if you don’t have that business. >> 2 years ago the couple had to lay off 200 workers. However with the support of partners, George and Cindy were able to pivot their business on a few fronts.
>> We did you know the ghost kitchen was something outside the box. So we have 10 locations in the Bay Area. Sauceda Berkeley. And and they can order food from those ghost kitchens. >> Ghost kitchens, prepare restaurant, quality food exclusively for delivery or takeout.
>> We sold so many key conducts we didn’t know what to do with all that that that so what do you do make popcorn with it. So that’s why we have a different popcorn. >> As business picked up on China live was able to rehire 100 workers.
Despite an uncertain future these restaurants remain hopeful that business will rebound. >> More police presence people are more as a community standing up for ourselves making sure that we have like the buddy system making sure that we’re together and we feel safe that were walking together that we have each other’s back.
>> We need it. I was an essential part of life I one more fun is that look forward to having dinner with friends you haven’t seen a new place for favorite place. >> But some old favorites just can’t be replaced. Why your mind that during the pandemic many restaurants have shut down
8 so far East is now the biggest restaurant in Chinatown the ball far East has to be space big enough to host large events for the community. >> We were overjoyed having that Mister trying to tell us a event here. A press conference and just being able to
Reconnect with the community. It warmed my heart and my dad was like so overjoyed that people are coming in just to celebrate. >> To learn more about the future of Chinese American restaurants. I went to visit chef Lucas in in New York City
This savvy ship is on a mission to save mom and pop shops from closing putting a spin on the classics. >> Hey, yeah, I mean to you all right can’t wait to Yahoo. >> Lucas was born and raised in Hong Kong growing up he had never heard of dishes like general tso’s
Chicken what was your first experience with Chinese American yeah, and did you go. >> What the heck is this. I was here for summer camp and on Tuesdays at 10 o’clock or so right before bedtime this Van would pull out in the front of the school. And you can pick
Between since we checked in general, so she can orange chicken with broccoli and fried rice or what race or whatever it was. The first thought was that this is the security situations where it’s been my whole life and the second thought is that what in the world of difference in orange
Chicken Jones has taken and says we take and why is there so much that don’t understand about this if last time I checked was trying to ease. >> Lucas actually study cognitive scientist Gayle, but he always had a passion for cooking. His summers spent training award-winning restaurants in Hong Kong and Japan
After graduating in 2015 Lucas opened his first restaurant with Yale classmate John’s out June, the kitchen is a fast casual chain that serves modern Chinese fair, but Lucas remained passionate about the Chinese American cuisine he first tasted visible. >> So so how did Chinese American food, the food that we
Have become a familiar with how did that develop that. >> Now Chinese takeout is interesting right because it’s all over the United States. So these folks come in the front is in a restaurant right they learn those recipes and it goes somewhere else right over there actually and then their
Cousins come from fees and then those recipes are passed on and there’s a remarkable similarity to to to these dishes. >> Despite the popularity of Chinese American food, many family owned restaurants that want got a Chinatown and other urban areas have been closing for years. >> Open restaurants really difficult and running
Restaurants is perhaps even more difficult these moms and dads over these Russians that their kids can go to University and become lawyers and doctors and television host and whatnot and now that they’re finally able to do that they don’t need to run these restaurants anymore. Right the light suddenly
Livelihoods have changed that’s a good thing. >> Lucas and young hatched an idea to help smaller businesses in 2019 nice day seeks out restaurants facing closure then works with the owners to remodel the space and update the menus. The pandemic stall the team’s initial plant, but the second
Location in Long Island is slated to open this spring. >> It’s important to me that these new Chinese American takeout restaurant so we’re building called nice day work with the previous generation of owners because they have a lot of knowledge that we don’t they know their
Customers you know what sells I think how to cook these dishes and recipes. >> You raise an interesting point that you talk to these retired this Chinese restaurant owners is that part of the sense of trying to memorialize what could be lost. >> Now preserving recipes as part of it.
The other important parts preserving the way business is done to take a restaurants and one of the few restaurants in the world that if they’re open from 11 to 10 and the work hours are 11 to 10 you don’t have any prep hours, the same Cook cent
Do the walks are fries are also prepping during the day, it’s ridiculous the efficient and it’s got to do with the set up and the waves because of the run, but it’s also important to us that we give back this last generation that we can make sure that
Owners want to retire retire, well, and that that legacy can be preserved a new type of American trying to take a rest >> While nice day pays homage to popular Chinese American room. recipes Lucas has been celebrated for his innovative fusion dishes.
In 2021, he was named one of food wine’s best new ships. >> We serve oppo Mac and cheese air which is a variation on that fish. Fusion the kind of silly and it’s just an attempt to something ridiculous it doesn’t make any sense if it rains
Every chef sensibility that I have but unfortunately is delicious and it’s interesting and it gets people talking. >> Finally it’s time to eat Locust showing me how to make his signature dish. >> How do we get sort so the Michael Mac and cheese. Here in the Mac and PC the audience are vigorously
America. We have this Elmo macaroni right top way and this is be there. But the model is going to be in the form of up sauce if you will the last 2 elements that really sort of take us over the edge is Chinese sausage. It can
Function like bacon and some giant you’re talking about streams that we’ve rehydrated so to start off with just it cut a couple of things and this for we will then put into the fire. There’s can close the jumping portion of our progress. Garlic and ginger are cooked to freight.
>> Spicy bean paste and soybeans are added to start the songs. >> The mixture to a boil to the flavors infuse. >> So you’re less and a lot yeah. What’s coming up. That’s why the pros do it baby. >> At this point everything so also the macro he’s going to
>> As this is just a. Once it boiling and happy. Few flashes of the best of the best. We will be American is wait for that via Al com see that’s a very good time together. >> We like to play this dish in
Chinese takeout box while so we. But it’s some fried total process croissant over the top that’s a little bit of texture. The so the amount of help from these fresh show is actually really important because they cut through the heaviness of there is this out. Wow was a little surprise for a minute.
The launch of the tofu I hope we have the act on that the U.S. also said yeah. >> You’ve never had that Jews had this. >> Amid a global pandemic changing family dynamics and anti Asian races Chinatowns across America and the communities that sustain them face a challenging road ahead.
>> Every business that is open right now is still fighting for its life and I think that the best way to fight the anti-asian hate is to show our love for the community come to Chinatown or your local Asian American Pacific Islander, the restaurant store market give them your business we have
Lost so much during the pandemic and I think it makes us all so much more conscious that we have to protect what we love. >> The avocado from toast. Topping the sweet treat, even mac and cheese. This tasty green food is pretty much
Every. But did you know the most popular rides? The Haas Avocado was developed right here in Southern California. I came all the way across the country to find out how farmers and restaurant owners are making sure we’re enjoying these years to come.
It’s time to head out of studio one a and hit the road for a new kind of culinary adventure. Follow me as I take some of the most high kind of foods around the country and meet the family behind together, we’re going to learn how a good meal has the
Power to connect this to our and our future. >> Call this right here. >> In the past 20 years, believe it or not, McConnell consumption has tripled in the United States. Today. The average American eats 8 pounds of these babies every year I
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>> Army veteran art basket has turned his love for avocado into a true family session for generations lived together on this. Scenic, many of them work in the orchard and help run the business. I’ve never been without a colorful path to a lot of fun that’s going to get or absolutely. All right.
Let’s go art. When you feel Malone moved to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1920’s picked off a con trick when several for but always dreamed of having his own. Not to 7 the family. >> Purchasing their first acre of this ranch. And that’s when my grandfather who feel it start teaching me
How to take care of the trees. That’s when I really started loving picking my brother and I picked the avocados, take the avocados down the town, talking on doors, selling the avocados art, put his passion for produce on hold to pursue careers in the auto parts industry.
In 2002, he was able to buy the entire property which was destined to be raised for new houses, taking it from 250 trees, all the way to 3,700, 50 trees. This is something that’s sustainable legacy that can leave your and teach my children grand kids in the family, how to work the Earth,
How to grow things organic Lee. >> Hart had also say the piece of Golden State history of the condos are native to Mexico, but some of the first of a condo trees in the U.S. were planted in La County in the Mid 18. 100’s Henry Dalton, a wealthy trader who owned ranches of
California, fell in love with the food during trips to Central America. If 18, 48 Henry planted the first avocado tree in Azusa. >> So he moved to Los Angeles and he took over and bought. Rancho is is in. There was fresh water coming from the
U.S. is a canyon. And so because of having a fresh water source and the awesome soil, he knew all the cars would be >> During a tour of the ranch, I got to see a living part of that history. >> What makes a specialist want to first planted public are
Trees and the western United States. This puppy is one of a kind like a hurricane and still producing folks still pretty simple because anywhere between 500 to 6, 7, 100 pounds of fruit a year. >> Experts estimate this tree is more than 100 years old.
It produces a type of avocado known as the 40 in Spanish, meaning strong. It was the first of a kind of variety to thrive in the United States because it can withstand cooler temperatures. But in the 1920’s, a new variety emerged in SoCal that would ultimately dominate the world market.
>> The guy by the name of Rudolph Haas, who was actually a postal carrier, but his hobby was growing. So he had a tortured at his house about 20 miles from here in La Habra Heights. >> The Hass avocado was a total accident. And amateur farmer
Rudolph and purchased some mystery avocado seat when the tree matured. He was surprised by the dark, bumpy food and produce. >> And that really took off commercially because it has a thicker skin. So for shipping purposes. And it’s an amazing tasting fruit.
>> The 40 and many other on the coast, a green when mature. But the skin on a past 3rd black when right hiding any reuses. It didn’t take off right away among consumers in the U.S.. So we took a few marketing campaigns for Americans to embrace this creamy variety of the fruit.
>> This 4th little green in your red, white and blue. >> Today, 80% of avocado is growing worldwide are passed. >> Now here this is one of the first pass trees commercially ever plan to the 2 hostage. >> He’s right here until the 90’s. The majority of avocados
Could soon to the country were grown in California and word available year-round. But all that changed in 1994. >> President Clinton made NAFTA the loss today making the United States to Canada and Mexico in one large trading brought. >> When NAFTA passed, avocados from Mexico became available
Everywhere. And folks could enjoy that any time today. Even named avocado toast. A top trend of the 2010. >> Avocado toast. I’m not sure how this happened, but there came a time in the past 10 years when people began to realize that their lives were not complete without.
>> Thanks to clever campaign’s new diet trend and an abundant supply. Avocado consumption has boomed in the last 2 decades, growing into a multi billion dollar industry. Now 90% of those avocados come from Mexico. However, this has led to major environmental impacts like deforestation.
Rancho Vasquez wants to combat the negative effects of on a culture for me as an organic orchard, they follow strict guidelines to help protect the land. Had the trees and what you grow tried to lessen the impact on the environment.
>> We picked the weeds by hand, are we? We did because it’s all organic. So we don’t ever spraying the weed killer. Anything like that? The deer come eat all the lower leaves as skirt the trees for us. And they turned that into natural manner.
>> Now, when it comes to picking all the cars require gentle touch. >> So we still do it the same high-tech way. They did it 100 years ago. I got my grandpa was already a really yeah. This is one of the old-school one. Thank you, pickin and you’re walking.
So you just slide it right up to the avocado goes in the basket and then you’re on the road. >> They’re pretty different. Doing pretty darn good to know that for dinner and then on the road. There’s a catch. It’s going to take a week to week and a half
Right now to write and let it get saw. How about going to taste? And so, yes, sir, we pick some about a week or so that so they be perfect for it. All right. Let’s do it. the Connors Roger Vasquez and his California. So 6, the forte
Past landmass read Pinkerton and gem. Each has a different shape taste and growing season. I’ve never seen such a like a round avocado. The ranch’s avocado is a prized by chefs customers for their high oil content that comes from the area’s climate nutrient rich mountain soil and secret farming techniques that have
Been passed down for generations. The higher the oil content, the better the tasing through this and then a longer stay green. You can taste and see the difference with their organic half. >> It just keeps it really listen to the loyal coming.
Yeah. So if you want to try just a little, Sean, we’ll give you a little chunk. >> That’s right. Next to the family favorite where today? What that really, really a different flavor. Absolutely. Absolutely. There’s almost it’s almost like assault in unison. Creaminess in there.
>> Aside from his wife was arts favorite way to eat, oppose it actually with Honey. It’s called public. Do you say okay? Well, that’s fantastic. And a great I would never thought of that guys. This is just amazing. What does it mean for both of you to to be
Owners of this of this legacy? >> There’s a legacy and you want to leave my family and grandkids, Damian and this will be around hoping to brand from some of the 100 years. You know, what does it mean for you there? >> It’s like you said, just a place where history can’t keep
Going because the trees were here before us and they’re going to be here after us. So we’re just kind of stewards of the land in the meantime. >> Let’s share a little of those guacamole. Yes or no. Let the chips fall where they may. As long as they’ve got block him
Aviles Elwren Cheeto is a Southern California staple that’s been in business for more than half a century. We’ve got 13 locations and counting of this family run. Jay Leno to restaurants are exactly the same. Every business owner puts their own spin on the family’s traditional Mexican recipes here. The Seal Beach outpost.
They claim to have the best guacamole but come to learn their secrets. It’s time to walk and roll. >> Wow. What a lot of folks here. >> The aunts, uncles, siblings and cousins behind Bliss El Rancho do really treat their guests like family. This
Location is run by Phillies, Aviles Smith, a 3rd generation restaurant tour. She credits the family success to her grandmother. Margaret is pass, but Ali. >> She just focused on really what we focus on goods, fresh foods. >> Salvador and margarita or mama over immigrated from
Mexico to the U.S. in 1958, how did they get into the restaurant business? My father had an opportunity to buy a restaurant and talked to my mother and this. I did. You know, this is a great opportunity. Salvador using his life savings to purchase the old restaurant property in
Huntington Park. He turned to his 6 kids, including Elise’s dad, Victor, for support. We will go after school and help them do whatever needed to be done. And my father was pretty much in the day taking cause all restaurants and my >> Choose another one in the kitchen and Graham.
>> Mama’s traditional recipes have been passed down through many generations to come from way, way back in Mexico. When it first opened in 1966, Avalos was the only Mexican restaurant in the mostly white neighborhood. Many customers had no interest in mama’s traditional dishes. So she
Developed a strategy to draw people. It seems like natural from my mother, often the people, whatever they wanted and more like a home that they didn’t have it on the menu that my mother would go in the kitchen making any way. >> Over the next 3 decades, the Avila siblings open 6 new
Restaurants in Southern California. This expansion wasn’t a coincidence. Americans at the same time we’re falling in love with Mexican food in the early 80’s. There were an estimated 2500 Mexican restaurants in the U.S. today. There are more than 60,000. >> I was busing tables here, the child.
>> Elise witness that growth as a kid watching her dad expand the family business. >> So I grew up doing homework in a booth. On top of that, I grew up with my grandparents living one street over from. So I grew up cooking with her for years and years.
>> Com, Ali, stride, working in other fields, but she was always drawn back to the rest. >> I’ve been working my day. You know, I looked for Max and then my brother opened his first restaurant and I end up serving tables at night. So no matter what I did,
I cut ending up back in this fist and I loved it realize that this is my passion is in my blood. How do you >> qualified open up on an obvious? Well, it’s process. Let me tell ya really had to work every position in the
Restaurant. So I washed dishes. I worked in a kitchen for a few years. I’ve done it all. >> After proving yourself for a decade, Elise opened her own novel is in 2015. >> When I first open my restaurant, I works for several months from about 6 in the morning till midnight. And
Finally, I remember my dad. My brother came in for an intervention and said you need to go home sleep. So I went home and they ran my restaurant for the night. And I knew with my dad and my brother here, there was nothing to worry about.
>> Every Opolis restaurant is unique reflecting the family member who owns it and the location they have different decor and specialty menu items, at least put your own spin on the brand by offering any extensive tequila cocktail menu that I’m gonna make you a drink right now. Make a strong for
>> But there are several dishes. You’re going to find it. Every location. Avocado are crucial to many of the family recipes, including the signature guacamole and their beloved chicken soup. Tell me about my model is. >> That’s what that feels like home to me. But it is a chicken
B***** and rice. We make it from scratch every morning. Putting the cost. We put fresh avocado cilantro, onion and tomato and it. >> And people call and the first they do when they get off the plane is thought to have chickens. So
>> you mention of a kind of goes into this. Tell me about the importance of avocado. >> It’s part of our culture. Bottom line is nobody wants to be executed without up call. >> I’m curious first, you Victor, what’s the secret to a
Good walkable? You have to make it, you know, almost 3 Ds. Well, the daily basis almost an hourly basis. It needs to be fresh in the city will see fun and a little bit of love. >> I like to think I make a good walk but I’m sure I can
Learn from the best about showing me how you guys to watch before making some walk. I enjoyed a cucumber margarita and got a taste of mama’s famous, much rain. I would never think about avocado and chicken suit. >> Oh, my God. I can’t take credit for that one out.
That’s all grandma. It’s alright. You ready to make some guac? You bet. All right. So the first thing we’re going to do, we’re going to dump some fresh garlic and okay, it’s the traditional mocha from they’re going to sprinkle a little bit
Of salt a little bit, a little bit of love it. And then you can use the top to go ahead and write it in there. >> Oak ahead of Mexican mortar and pestle is made from volcanic rock. It’s the family secret to great choir.
The rough surfaces help crush the not really releasing their natural oils better than chopping up the night. >> We’re going to get in some fresh avocado. And then you go ahead and mix that together. And I got to be gentle with yeah with Michael.
>> Chantal in go. Diced onions, lots of cilantro and a good squeeze of lime juice. >> Keep on mix in there. You’ve got yourself. Some good, fresh guacamole. I’m taking care of it. You make good. Welcome. Yeah. >> I learned from the bout police to be part of something
Like this. What it was. >> Honestly, I feel compelled to keep these beautiful recipes that are from my great, great grandparents running so that everyone that comes to our restaurant is able to taste, then extended our table and feel like family and just be a part of our peers.
Sushi bar like a sushi bar. But more Mexican hahaha, this lively food court is home to several family-owned engines. In fact, here you’ll find homework. A modern eatery renowned for its sustainable seafood. The chef behind this vibrant a new parish flavors from his childhood in Mexico with the freshest, the California case.
>> Gilberto sit. He never thought he would dedicate his life to cook, but his summers spent on the Yucatan Peninsula would later inspire a bold move. >> Since I was a teenager growing up in the coastal region, I would go diving with my cousins. We dive down for
Off the bus. I would get lobsters. We get see smells and then you take that back. And that was one of the first times that I felt a direct connection to food. Because even back then there was a disconnect. You know, food came from the supermarket. And this
Is the first time I saw something that was like directly from the sea and you can cook it and eat it right away. So that kind of blew my mind. >> Gilberto immigrated to the U.S. when he was 5 years old. His father Gilberto senior, a former civil engineer, were
Various restaurant jobs to support the family. >> How did your family transition from that kind of grassroots sort of food service to write a real formal restaurant? >> It really was through the help of the nonprofit that, you know, operates with a call-up aloma.
>> This bust is run by Esperanza or Hope. A nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing South Los Angeles and helping first-time business. >> They gave us small business training base. Now restaurant help Hartman training the cold signed loans. So my dad to purchase the equipment. It was my dad’s dream to have a
Restaurant that represented our Mexican food, the food of the Yucatan, which is very distinct from other regions of Mexico. >> In 2001 Gilberto senior Open the family first restaurant. She can eat the menu featuring traditional dishes like what you need to be so booties and a new shows.
>> And this time was not on my event that your time is for sale. And I’m pretty secure them on the phone another month. >> They needed help. But Gilbert, it was reluctant to join the family business. >> I want to talk. I want to be in the kitchen because I I grew
Up in a household where we always, you know, cooking was always easy to make ends meet like a lot of families. So when we opened the restaurant in my dad asked me to come along and help him out for 6 months. I was from the house slowly.
I just discovered the cooking and that I enjoyed it. And, you know, started learning from my dad. >> Even without Gilbert are quickly learning the ropes becoming a savvy businessman 10 years in between each with thriving with dozens of employees. They even released a cookbook when I asked him to sign up now.
>> In this last and he did not see up in the airport and they >> After taking over Kiki to Gilbert, it was ready for a new channel. One inspired by those summer, both trips in Mexico. It isn’t a whole bunch.
>> So hold, which is a place. It’s an island off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. He wanted to bring tropical fresh from the sea, but along with an elevated experienced divers in South Lagoon, wen h* much open to the same mark. It change many perception of what Mexican food.
>> We go outside of the realm of you’ve got time. You from all different coastal regions of Mexico. >> Gilbert, those fusion dishes allow the freshest fish dish on the menu. Staples include seasonal some beaches and octopus talk. His innovative cooking as wild locals and critics alike.
How does it feel to be nominated for a James Beard Award? >> After the shocked, I think the first thing that I felt was extreme pride in my team. A certain level. I guess it feels a little bit like validation because we’re doing something slightly outside of the box.
>> You look across the Mexican cuisine and 1 of the commonality is the avocado. Why does the office work so well across cuisines of Mexico, but especially Yorkers? >> The pairing of avocado goes extremely well with draw seeking preparations, likes of beaches and book their lives.
And they’re very bright light in the city. And avocado is a perfect complement. Gives it a little bit. You know, we need >> Richness. >> That delicate balance is best represented in the shrimp and scallops, which you and I couldn’t wait to try making.
>> So I went to his 2% with what we’re going to do. We’re going to take we’re going make the marinade that’s going to covered in HR scalloped, right? So we’re just going to take some some cilantro. >> Next up, the chilled serrano peppers bring the heat Persian cucumbers cooling down.
There’s a pinch of salt. I prevent oxidation and a squeeze of lime. Then the pair and a pledge for just that. Now take a ball. >> Well, but a couple of spoonfuls of these beautiful buck up on your face columns. Look at the now pour the marinade.
We’ll hold on to the spoon for steering. All right. We want to let that marinate for at least 5 minutes. >> Gilberto takes is on what you made to the next level with after hitting peeling. It was time to get slice.
>> You know, it can be straight because because at an angle and we’re pointing you just go into this off. >> The key to a great rose super lax. >> We’re hiring now the next step. This we’re going to do this. This motion. We’re going to pan out the right. So
We see that law. Well, looking good there. And that’s a good enough for all you started to tip right here, just >> when this when I got to see how that’s forming on really big bar. Yes, this is a pretty advanced skill, but I think
It’s one worth practicing how? Yeah, it’s a nice hearty chicken dinner and pressure friends. Yeah. So potentially use that one. The by the professional. >> Kind of played it up. >> That’s something beautiful yacht need are doing this. I am all take I guess spoonful of them just drop it on there
And then arrange them on the play. >> And of course, the finishing touches. What is your scalp of what she left and I helped make it. It’s something this pretty taste as good as that. >> That’s amazing. Thank you. I’m glad you, Jay, but it’s so
Simple. Thank you, sir. Out it was a pleasure. >> The Hass avocado may have started out as a lucky surprise. But for decades, its popularity has been no accident. The Mexican American culinary traditions passed down through the years have made this delicious and nutritious
Food staple for so many of us across the country and thanks to generations of an uprising, families, this bumpy green fruit going to have a very long shelf life >> New York City is home to so many iconic foods well when the city that never sleeps wakes up for breakfast, they want a
Bagel with cream cheese we’re piled high with locks. There’s no other. >> City that makes a bigger like a New York City. >> I have not had good bagels in the inner city came out the wounds, even biggest. >> It’s time to head out of studio one A and hit the road
For a new kind of culinary adventure follow me as I take some of the most high kind of foods around the country and meet the families behind together we’re going to learn how a good meal has the power to connect us to our past our future.
If New York known for anything it’s it’s bagels and we’ve got them all everything bagel rainbow bagels pumpkin bagels Chris and bagels and of course you can’t happen without a schmear well the bagel first came from Poland. Many food, historians say it’s pairing with salmon and cream cheese
Originated right here the big out. In this town few specialty food shops are as beloved and has this story as Russ and daughters. >> I’ve been waiting in line probably 1520 minutes, but it’s definitely worth it. I like the contrast of the flavor is like a nice little
Bagel with the Smith’s off the last of this. >> And then in cream cheese together like I try to make up almost nothing compares arrest and daughter. >> They’ve been serving premium smoked fish to 100 New Yorkers and folks from around the world for over 100 years.
Just a few blocks from the store is the Russ and daughters >> Oh yeah. Have year thanks for having us this is beautiful. Thank you. >> Nikki rest better and Josh Russ Tupper are the grandchildren of the original daughters. These cousins, our 4th generation owner carry on their family’s pool in every Lakers.
>> So this is Russ and daughters are great grandfather, Joe Morris started the business is why well, and 3 daughters. We just same grandmother and she was the youngest of the 3. >> Wasn’t unusual at that time for you because you usually see
So and so and Sons but to see Russ and daughters variant. >> But I mean honestly if it had some Hollywood since he did like. As a feminist, but he was a good business back. >> Joel Russ immigrated from Poland in 19 ’07.
>> And he started to standing on the streets of the Lower East Side selling small tearing out of the barrel and of family could feed itself for 2 nights with one pitch. >> In 1940 he opened his first brick and mortar shops, JD, Russ national appetizer, Joel and his wife and 3 daughters
Had e I du N when they turned 11 each daughter began working with their dad. What was their relationship like with the eye because is your dad but he’s also your boss, yeah. >> And I think he cared more about being. The boss and the shopkeeper he was a new immigrant to this
Country who is just trying to survive and make a place for his family. And that was his focus and he saw his children this as you know she flavor. >> The sisters grew up learning all aspects of the business in 1935 Hadi Ida and N became Joel’s partners, the shop was
Renamed, Russ and daughters, making it the first in America to bear and daughters in its title when your great grandfather decided to start Russ and daughters. One of the Lower East Side. >> After Ellis Island, this was a starting off point for the majority of
For Jewish immigrants, this is where they landed and they got their start and so he was just eating basic. 2 other for immigrants like himself. >> At the turn of the century this neighborhood was one of the most densely populated places on the planet.
Many immigrants from all around the world live in overcrowded tenement buildings, the conditions having a profound impact on their diet. >> One of the things about Lower East Side Jewish to get a lot of to help when you don’t have running water and we don’t have
Electric or gas stoves is really hard to do very much cooking and so for women who are responsible for feeding their families they had to get food from push carts from restaurants from it. >> Joe Ross was one of many vendors catering to this new population.
I’m always curious. How did it come about. >> Well what you think that somebody thought hey you know, here’s this round bread will put some fish on the by the way before we do let’s put some cream cheese some dairy off >> Russ and daughters is the torch bearer of what’s called
At the time saying and this is a food tradition born here in New York. And it’s the sister food tradition to the test. Both of which come up through the Jewish kosher dietary rules you have to separate and they’re Ephraim meet so delicatessen strictly speaking is for me the
Advertising store is where you go for fish and dairy things like smoked fish when we say bagel and lox most people are you know we’re friend to smoke salmon, you’re regional Bay, long locks was not was sent. >> Technically locks or belly locks is salmon cured in salt which preserves fish without refrigeration
There’s no smoking involved and if you read ubly salting so impaired perfectly with tangy cream cheese. But who is the first person to put locks on a bagel. >> So no one really knows how bagels lox and cream cheese all came together, we know that big goals come from Eastern Europe,
We know that locks comes basically from Scotia kind of we know the cream cheese is an American too. But what we know that these things come together as part of a compromise between different generations of Americans. >> Jewish law prohibits cooking with most heat sources on the
7th, so the combo of bagels and lox created a filling meal for observant Jews to enjoy on the day of rest. >> It’s good for a family, but you or your daughter-in-law didn’t have to be spending the previous 10 cooking. >> As one of the country’s oldest appetizers the bus and
Daughters has been serving kosher meals for generations. I still the busiest day. >> I can’t think really of the anything that’s more New York than lox and bagels. >> Yes I agree I think that this is the food that came up >> The Eastern European Jewish immigrants to New York. through.
But now it’s transformed and just become New York food, it belongs to all New Yorkers. >> In the United States women on less than 20% of all businesses at the iconic Russ and daughters Conor Nikki rest Fetterman is building on the legacy of her grandmother and
Great aunt, growing up you you follow in the footsteps of of storm with. We’ve got a chosen this but took it on and obviously made a really successful. What is it like for you following the news. >> It’s a tremendous feeling to be now and great granddaughter.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a customer of ours family came from the Lower East Side. He once said that before she knew the family. He looked up at the side, Russ and daughters, she understood that women have an impact. >> Your family’s business possibility as the sun is survived 2 world.
New shot of the world treats yes. Why has this case it to not just survive, but thrive. >> I think because a new generation there has been someone who wanted to do this. This is food that people turn to for comfort in hard times. And during the pandemic that’s all that
Before shipping lost daughters all over the country to their loved ones because they couldn’t get together and so sending al Fayed has a lock and vodka say you know I love you I miss you here on the PGA commissioner euro vision. There was a lot of
>> OK, so you can get smoked fish pretty much everywhere these days but not quite like this. The salmon sold Russ and daughters is prized for its high fat content from the milder gasping Nova to the smoke, you’re Scottish and this gourmet fish.
All sliced by hand when you hold it up, I mean it’s it’s almost like a translucent yeah I think we should show you how we get that. Yeah, the the sharp utensil haha it takes up to 6 months of training to master the slicing technique yet.
>> So I hear you have some nice goals well I’ve been in a fight or 2, but the probably nothing like your show. If you’ve been slicing cent then at the store for 20 years. 7 slicing for a while all right
So that so I watch people slice and I I’m amazed that to help Haitian because it seems like that’s part of the skill. >> The reality is when you I know how to slice it is one of the most relaxing things we’ve been there is very meditative right. The trick is
Don’t look anywhere on the fish, you have to really feel the first the the fish. B the fish which is a very difficult concept to train someone that and particularly the first couple slices don’t be upset, okay, if they don’t look great. The idea
Is to make it consistently thick slice faces me not just watching you not watch the fish. The officials. You should you should look I said you got a sharp knife in an hour. And you can see that as you change the angle of the night that changed the thickness yeah right.
>> To that dry more than anything that’s more the oh my gosh that’s a very think all those that relate this to date that’s it shops that’s going to say that so that the 19 that’s a good dish to me does the way you cut it affect the taste of the
>> The texture which affects the experience of assignment. texture. >> It’s almost like you’re eating the essence of 7. >> Salmon, it’s very delicate. It’s a very appealing texture and mouthfeel yes, but better. >> Josh thanks so much this meeting you such a pleasure to have you smoke them if you’ve got.
>> How fresh he gets turned on the light. >> I’m here at the acme smoked fish back to now there is something fishy going on in there and you better believe I’m going to find out what it is. The folks at Acme process smoke and.
>> I nearly 8 million pounds of fish every year they sell to eateries all over the country, including Russ and daughters. >> It smells of smoke and it smells of fish. >> That’s the way it’s supposed to be all right New York City asked.
All right so as you know in any food that food plant food safety is of paramount importance I see you got your boots, I just happen to be wearing them also. We’ll walk you through the process of how 7th runs into smoked salmon.
>> Adam cazler is the 4th generation owner of Acme smoked fish. His great grandfather, Harry Brownstein started selling fish after immigrating from Russia to Brooklyn. >> We started with a focused business in the early 1900 in 19 ’06 to be exact.
>> I was out of a push far out of the a lot of horse drawn. Why wow he would go around buying this from different smokehouse throughout Brooklyn and Queens. And how himself to cells around you know, he works close to 45 years of his dream
Was to open up his own smoke has been taken 45 years to finally achieve that. >> Adam now runs a massive smoke missions or supply many of New York City’s popular bagel shops from H one H S a Acme also selling the National grocers like trader Joe’s.
>> We have the day it’s all about the fence. We bring in this from all over the world smoked salmon is probably the most popular thing that we make in our salmon come from different places, Norway, Scotland to and Alaska.
>> It can take up to 5 days to make smoke cent every order is made to the buyers taste from that type of salmon to curing the first step got a whole fish and the latest. >> Well. Yeah, so this is a.
Well the long haul family unity iPod over here clouds out on this. This is and when examined. Armrest we use a Lenox and then you have the most fact and that >> Alright, we’ve got to happen like the backbone carving into officiant this requires expert
After the fishes for late, it’s preserved with some of the fish is then treated with a wet brine or a dry cure. Okay, so let’s try right here some. >> Some 7 yeah, first thing we’re going to get it on to be a raft of that so
See if you can pick up the sand and gravel find it by the tail okay. Grab would your honor we’re going to wait on to this screen right. >> With just a thin layer. Along the top of the charts. All right on down the barrel. That’s that. This is a rather large, so.
That right you are about 24 hours. That’s a huge. >> After curing the full laser cold smoke for up to 20 hours this process imparts a subtle smoky flavor. >> When we say of the smoke or work. A collection of that would ship plan that we’re talking about
>> There are different ways to smoke fish. The latest hot smoking results and flaky people A’s unlike traditional locks smoke, salmon, it’s cold smoke below 85 degrees. This helps the fish retain its silky texture and makes it perfect for slicing. Hey now >> After the smokers, the fish is cool then packed for
Shipping. Well if your great-grandfather say if he could do all of it. >> I think you’d be a man is of out. Difficult it was for him to achieve his dream right now is descendants have been able to build upon that tree and bonus into one of the preeminent smokers in the U.S..
>> Up next a vegan deli taking on tradition with plant based locked and cashew cream cheese. You don’t want to miss this. >> Back on the Lower East Side 2 sisters inspired by their Jewish heritage we are on a mission to make the food, they loved growing up in a more sustainable way.
>> Ladies nice to meet you show me around his lead or what. >> Erica and Sarah could burst other co-owners of orchard grocer it entirely be get Mark inspired by classic delicatessens are. They want to make the vegan lifestyle easier for all right after college they opened their first
Business, a shoe store called new shoes. >> Open our begin to start 20 years ago. >> About 5 years ago we decided that we were going to update it by adding in our view can grocer basically because it seems like that’s what our customers want. After asking us
What our shoes are made of probably where should I go he was. The second most common questions so we decided to create an experience where they can just go next door. >> Growing up in Queens, the sisters, Jewish culture who were closely lot they had 10 Jewish deli in their neighborhood along.
>> Probably every Sunday the tradition in our family doesn’t bagels the bagel store doesn’t always meant 15, I don’t know why that was but and what the cream cheese and lox and that was just how we spend our Sundays. >> Both sisters became vegan teenager, but felt they lost a
Piece of their roots by giving up certain foods. >> I think our parents were supportive of our changes to the lifestyle, we grew up in a very culturally Jewish household, so all of our traditions were just based around food. >> Today a lot of folks are going vegan for a variety of
Reasons from reported health benefits. >> To concerns over animal welfare for the sisters, it’s also a matter of global importance. >> We’re watching climate change happen right now and I think that’s causing a lot of people to think twice about what they’re eating and how they are contributing so it
Makes sense to us that it is becoming so mainstream. >> In 2017 Sarah and Erica, so I’m not just an opportunity to satisfy a growing market but to pay homage to their Jewish roots. >> We wanted to have a good sandwich selection that really
Up in my XYZ like New York deli food so obviously a pickle and mocks with going to be there. >> Orchard grocer sells a variety of vegan sandwiches, including rubins and to the belts. But the sisters are most passionate about serving up a sense of nostalgia.
>> People are so worried about giving things up so I think just creating those alternatives and just something that people are familiar with and given that feeling of home. Yeah like we haven’t had to give up our Sunday tradition-bound bagels a lot. >> To help make their unique Delhi, a reality, the sisters
Hired vegan chef Nora Vargas. Nor shared a passion for plant based food, she also knows how to turn carrots into salty locks. >> How did you come up, I mean you have to think okay what can mimic. Smokes and yet so how did you was it looked like that.
Well, the only orange vegetables. Sweet potato and carrot we know the texture that we need to go before we know the labor that we want to go for so we started with the color and then you kind of build it. Okay so let’s get started,
I’m really passionate okay all right, I’m excited so we have prepared. We have maybe 10 pounds of carrots. Yeah, or you these are huge these would have been huge carrot seriously. Yeah, this as my 4, but you have you have sliced very thin on a mandolin
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>> That does look very much like smoking who and what would a bagel and lox be without the cream cheese. This beacon spread is made withdraw cash. Some secret spices and coconut all blended together with soft tofu when they come to your let’s do it. 2, this is a really terrific.
>> Idea thank you thank you for opening my. Thank you so much appreciate that yeah and a half. >> Great way to finish things up. I mean we’ve we’ve seen the history we’ve got to the past we were in the present and you have brought us. >> The lox and bagels
>> a bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon is a uniquely American combination born from Jewish was transported by local ingredients and carried on by new generation. This breakfast British has truly stood the test of time when it comes to food in New York City.
>> In the 1950’s 60’s 70’s Black owned restaurant were just places to get the 7 becoming crucial meetings after this at the forefront of the civil rights movement. The family still operating these reforms today are committed to honoring their historic like it.
>> It’s time to head out of studio one a and hit the road for a new kind of culinary adventure. Follow me as I take some of the most eye kind of foods around the country and meet the families behind together, we’re going to learn
How a good meal has the power to connect this to our past our future. >> We’re in heart the epicenter of black culture in the United States. Many historians agree the Harlem Renaissance pave the way for the civil rights movement of the 1950’s 60’s.
So in this episode were traveling across the country to explore 3 legendary black owned restaurant for generations. The beloved leaders have been serving up dishes to historic figures and those fighting for change. First up, we’re heading south to visit and iconic establishment that defied segregation law.
>> New Orleans, a city that celebrates with food music, Nightline and history. In the Big Easy, you’ll find many historic sites. They played a vital role in the civil rights like William Frantz Elementary School, where 6 year-old Ruby bridges barriers in 1960. Well, New Zion Baptist Church activist and remains one of the
Oldest black neighborhoods in America. Here you’ll find the only rest on the U.S. civil rights straight. >> The Chase restaurant definitely is a historical landmark institution to on. >> This popular event is a living testament to a woman who changed the face of ongoing in America. Chef Leah Chase.
>> I was stellar. Chase Threes. And I am the president of the Copper Ation here to continue. Ended the chase before. And I second that show, too. >> Still as grant first open to change as a potent becoming a full-service restaurant in 1940. >> African-Americans didn’t have that place to celebrate.
To celebrate birthdays, to celebrate promotions, to celebrate good grades, weddings, proms. So they opened up a place where that could happen. >> But the next generation had a new vision for the future. >> Was my father and could chase junior and his wife. We lanes chains that continue the legacy that might
Grandparents started. >> Dooky Chase Junior was an avid jazz musician who promote some of America’s First integrated concert. >> His friendship with all the musicians, Ray Charles and Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan. We would hear stories of them after their performance coming here than a dozen times.
>> And Lia was determined to bring in elevated dining experience for her black people. >> She wanted the best China’s XI morning linens. She wanted them to be served the best they could be served because she didn’t want our community to be deprived than anything else and any other community had.
>> That community was on the brink of a revolution years in the making. >> Host 18 65 in the Emancipation Proclamation which the masses of African American people now worry the country was overwhelmed. Hierarchies needed to be re-established. It was important from a white supremacist point of view that
Black folks knew their place. >> By the late 19th century, Jim Crow laws legalizing racial segregation in the former Confederate states. Those laws we’re further cemented by the Supreme Court case Plessy versus Ferguson which upheld the separate but equal doctrine but Dooky Chase’s 5 of those laws welcoming patrons of all
Races to die and discuss political issues facing the black community. >> Their willingness in an openness to everyone in the community, make them of safety, get them of belonging. >> But that opened this also made the change family a target. >> There were times that we had people throw things in and try
To, you know, destroyed the peace. But that didn’t like my parents. They continued because they know what they were doing was the correct thing to do. >> By the 1960, Dooky Chase had become a go-to spot where activist could connect and strategize.
>> We had the opportunity to serve many of our civil rights leaders. Martin, the key Jesse Jackson rose up on 3rd March 2. The list goes on and on and then freedom bus ride as they came here. My parents realize that until we all learn to
Enjoy life together and get to that point where social justice would be for everyone that this community are any of the community in our country would not grow. It will not be better. >> And the 1970’s we’re becoming passionate about promoting black artists.
>> A love of art was also celebrating here at Dooky Chase’s when she gave African-American or does the opportunity to actually display their art on how? Well, because if a time they had no police to display their art. >> Her extraordinary life even becoming the inspiration for Disney’s first Black Princess Tiana.
>> Meant a lot for her because she did have some of the kids dress up. They come here. >> Leah Chase. The queen of Creole cuisine passed away on 6/1/2019, but her spirit. >> And her culinary traditions are and vigilant in capable hands.
>> This is the case of catching it set up the same way. And we love it like that because as you know, she’s still with us. He still watching. >> Just to continue to serve Creole cuisine. That’s been on the menu for decades from red beans and rice. Just shrimp Clements
And the famous chicken ala do. But the restaurant’s most popular dish gumbo. >> We think back to the civil rights era when we had leader strategizing and I’ve says time if Adam, do you think about presidents so day, President Barack Obama, President George
Bush came and we always thought of them with gumbo because my grandmother always believed that her combo solve any problems. And we like to say how gumbo change the course of America. >> Gumbo in official state food to Louisiana Dooky Chase’s version as a little something for everyone, not one but 2
Types of sausage, some Louisiana blue. >> We do is we take the top selloff. We clean it up and we just pack it in half. Really? Some of those flavors, chicken and shrimp coming up to forgot gumbo, simmering until that’s ready to serve. I mean, if you just smell the neighborhoods, everybody knows
That he tases him down. >> Today, the Chase Empire is expanding. Chef do. >> Just open the families who was best Chapter 4 in the 4th generation African-American refer to as few many generations. Now working side by side. >> The interim, my family as the biggest lesson.
>> With the selmon not going down to defeat. Changing it myself. Some gumbo but services, right? It 3, 2, >> The whole restaurant Dooky Chase’s that is a gift to the family that was given by my great grandparents. And so we want to make sure that the restaurant sustains that legacy
And all the traditions. We chased it. >> Food bills. Big bridges. If you can eat with someone you can learn from that. When you learn from someone you could make, we chose we contains the course of America and this restaurant over ball of gumbo. We can talk to each other and relate to
Each other. >> A trip to Harlan just wouldn’t be complete without a meal here at Sylvia’s Restaurant. This neighborhood, it’s Bush has been serving up soul food since 1962, what started as a small margin debt has now become a family empire, beloved by tourists, locals and plenty of famous. They said the
Corn borer was sweet. It was warm and it just reminded me of >> Took me back to my grandmother’s cooking. So I really enjoyed it. >> What brought me here today was that I was hungry and wanted some good, some food. So where do you go in our la Sylvia’s?
So food is the cultural. >> Identity marker really? My XYZ. Our journey. People living in America. >> Yes, Woods black is the granddaughter of the legendary Queen of Soul Food, Sylvia Woods. >> So if you grew up in Hemingway, South Carolina where
She met her, love her but will 11 and about a lot of people >> But this entrepreneur to be wasn’t content with life on the floor. >> My grandmother, she came to New York when she was 16. She knew that this was a place that was more palatable for African-Americans, select really live.
>> Sylvia and her were among the estimated 6 million African Americans left the Jim Crow South during the great migration. >> We had Cain, you know, north to escape all of the atrocities that were happening and to really be in control of their lives. You are
Black. You know, Harlem was the place to be. >> So the finding work at a diner Johnson’s luncheonette which eventually purchased from the owner with a loan from her mom. >> Mister Johnson knew that my car with me and on 8/1/1962 Sylvia’s Restaurant was point.
>> As the Cultural Center of Black America, Harlem became a crucial site for demonstrations organized by leaders like Martin Luther King Junior and Malcolm X, according to professor psyche Williams Force. >> The heart of civil Rights is America because it wasn’t limited to one area, though folks were in
The Northeast, still experienced poverty and inequality in voter suppression and homelessness will be made the restaurant a welcoming place for activists. >> She played her role as ensuring that the community leaders had a case to to me and said you strategize.
>> He was signed that. So he is a lefty of the day. The Ruby Dee, you know, these are actors and actresses that were on the front line. >> And by the 1960, the movement had achieved major games like the historic Brown versus Board of Education and successful boycott.
>> The racial discrimination and police brutality against black Americans persist resulting in deadly riots throughout the day to devastating events just 4 years apart. Spark destructive riots throughout Shelby as always. >> Allen was on fire and my grandmother have the restaurant open. The grocery stores were not open. Nothing was open. You
Know, people going to be there is and she was in the kitchen making food. >> So that this community would have something to eat. >> This strong connection with Harlem nights as continue for decades. >> We had guessed that with every single day and sometimes
We have people that you with us multiple times a day. >> I learned the secret to suit his needs. Sylvia’s in Harlem has been serving up soul food since 1962 and this native New York. Good way to get back to their historic dining.
>> Make it’s been way too long is too. I’ve missed you, too. But you know a thing about building into its like that. So yes, it’s coming home is coming home. >> The dining room walls showcasing famous faces and political figures along with treasured memories.
>> This picture is one of my grandmother’s favorite was wet and windy. And Nelson Mandela came to New York. >> When he was free eating here has become a rite of passage for many candidates. >> As a young man, I don’t know. One of the half of that
Is all I think he might have turned out. Okay. I think, you know, after a meal here at this is what set him on his part. That’s right. Check it. But the heart of so be it is hard protests enter have worked hard to stay active in the neighborhood.
>> From funding college scholarships for local teams to supporting Black Lives Matter is what is it about this restaurant? The country people coming. >> Weapons to city times love. So the is becoming so he is you know what you’re going to get.
You’re going to get some good that’s going to make you feel warm. >> Today over a dozen family members helped run Soviet empire, which includes a catering business, a successful food product line. >> What’s it like working with them? Because I know your brother, Marcus. Yeah, baby brother. My brother has that.
>> Watching my brother rode down in the kitchen is something that we always knew was going to happen. >> Executive chef Marcus Woods has been at the helm for 5 years. >> Sylvia’s Grants. So it is so good to see you. Yeah. And you’re back here. You’re running the kitchen. What?
What’s that like for you and me knowing that his legacy, your grandmother. >> I’m honored modest against people like you and community Harlem. So as long as I could do that at always on it last, you know, the amazing thing is food brings people together. You look at that that that dining room,
Everybody is that this was so we used to always say that the first time to come Sylvie is your guest. Second time. The family, according to Marcus Fried Chicken. >> The most beloved men you like. So did your grandmother take you out?
>> Yes, she taught me how to project everything down to the seasonings. You always say no moisture, ice check-in and their native like you put the most on the baby. >> I know I can’t get that image out of my one. Secret chef Marcus. First dry run to marry. You know, that’s just
Plain plane flown. Yeah, this is plain flour. Got a little coarse, black member to it on. I’m all in there. We just want to give it a little mix again. The baby, the baby. Like you’re tossing the baby after the chicken is coated, gets a general shift and gets into the deep fryer.
That looks like tender loving care, right? Oh, yeah. That was going to get in there with the baby to bed. We’ll let you know when they’re ready. Wake up. What’s the best part of working every day? When I walk in, I get to feel like my grandma. I feel her. I really feel
I’ve every time you go a little ways is by our the base worker. This might have known about everyone to she was. I’m going to try to after about 15 minutes, Golden perfection. That looks perfect years old while the seasoning boys wrist. >> We’re mother smiling, right? A Soviet project right there.
We did the baby while Marcus. This is fantastic. It’s so great to see you. If you don’t mind, I’m going to take this to go on the back of a home run to thank you. >> Welcome back in Oakland, California, lowest the pike has been serving up southern specialties, hospitality and of course.
>> I’ve used cars since the 1950’s. >> But it’s more than just a space for delectable food. It’s a well-known political activist, artists, musicians and everyday people to meet next and collaborate. >> Come on down to know is the pike. We get a job and then me
>> Well as the pike, which is serving up much more than a brunch. >> This is a great place for local succumb. Great place for people to connect. And this is awesome that I could come to a place like this. Have some soul food.
>> My name is Chris Davis and I’m owner of Laws. Pike Ring. We served proved that warms the soul. This family’s roots run deep in northern California. Lois Davis Chris’s month began selling homemade pies at her church in the 1940’s they were in. Instead, her husband,
Roland, dubbed her the Pie. And so a new business opportunities. My dad was a chef at TNT Foods in San Francisco and they combine both of their efforts to open that the restaurant and serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. >> In 1953, the duo opening their Oakland restaurant.
>> So my mother of and the restaurant for 40 years and started at 04:30AM in the morning for her and the 11 at night. And she was a pure perfection. This Lois perfecting recipes she enjoyed growing up. The recipes were my grandmother’s recipes. My
Grandmother was from taxes and they have maintained the test of time. All of the items that are on the menu. We’re pretty much on the menu when my mom started the restaurant. >> From key lime pie topped with raspberry jam to been in a cheesecake. Sweet treats are always popular, but there are
Plenty of savory staple that keep customers coming back every morning. And there’s one ditch with a special place in many folks heart. >> You might not find Santa croak. It’s on the menu anywhere in the Bay area. >> Some of her cats are part center. Part macro, yellow
Onions, salt and pepper tally and bread crumbs. >> These pro cats which originated in the south where a meal staple for many black family. Most black folks couldn’t afford craft, you know, once it became popularized. But in the absence of that canned fish salmon Croquettes became a major filler.
>> With a couple of cans, families could make an affordable yet. Delicious me Lewis’s dishes have brought in celebrities from Sammy Davis. Junior does end and sports icons like Reggie Jackson hear so often they actually named a pork chop special after.
>> So here’s my what Wall of fame and some of those special people that are up here. This is Black Panther Party minister Eldridge Cleaver. >> In the 1960’s 70’s lows, welcome members of the newly formed Black Panther Party restaurant is a short drive
From their community come. We’re activist up new at Bobby Seale. First met founding the party in 1966. Crist attended merit with both of them. >> I had Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, European to come to the restaurant. Civil rights leaders and organizers and community leaders would come
And meet and organize and strategize. There was a lot of electricity and the restaurant when they visited the Black Panthers have a controversial list. >> This story we tend to hear is one of violence. What we do hear about is what are the various lunch programs engine
Free breakfast. They saw a black communities as in and of themselves, resilient, capable of being self-sufficient. >> Lois and Chris were not members of the party, but it was during this air of the restaurant became an important gathering space in the Oakland community from different walks of life.
>> When people come and are needy and ask for food, we always do what my mom did, which was we always take care of them. >> We always give them a meal. >> The restaurant expanding this mission amid the pandemic providing 16,000 meals to locals in need.
>> It is a place for people to come and get together and trying to figure out how to make our community and our world a better place today. That mission to help others has evolved. >> Chris used as a platform to support local musicians and
Keep the restaurant. But by bringing in younger generation agreed with that. >> Aspect of music and musicianship is something that is in the U.S. the restaurant. Hey, Mister Jackson. How are you? Good. I’m good feet good. We recently started a music management company.
4 wise men detained that he and officially runs from the tables it lowers. >> It’s not an accident or coincidence that you look around and see a lot of photographs of, you know, famous post does a lot of people that he supports and only supports my putting up pictures that will cultivate
Young artists that are looking to get an opportunity to get a platform where they can be seen and heard. Would you like hash Browns Richer X? >> Chris is determined to keep the restaurant and his son. Cory Jackson has been overseeing the day-to-day of lows for nearly 5 years. Working with my dad
Gave me understanding not only the hard work my grandma put forward. >> And how much my dad is trying to fill those shoes. And now I’m trying to feel this. >> We’re hoping his son will share the passion for the family business.
>> They can’t stale and they have a job right now. A full so where it’s great to see my kids and their pop-up Chris Bond. >> Chris thinks that would be incredibly proud to see her restaurant continuing to thrive. We are the oldest black restaurant in the Bay Area.
>> Is a tribute to my mom’s efforts to support her community and 2 create a place that was a home away from home and a place to serve food that warm the soul. >> As you might imagine, keeping the restaurant looking for decades is no easy feat, especially in the face of adversity.
But with delicious dishes and unwavering hospitality, these are store hot spots with newer generation fighting for social change. These places now stand as symbols of resilience, inspiring and needed a new generation of community >> There are dozens of China towns all across America with interesting architecture diverse restaurants, and
Specialty shops, it’s no wonder they’re popular with locals and tourists alike. They also provide places for new immigrants and for families to create communities but with gentrification and all sorts of
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