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On this weeks episode of What’s Cooking with Paula Deen, Paula chats with chocolatier Adam Turoni and Paula tries his award winning chocolate.
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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Deen today and we got something
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real good cooking a young man that I
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have known probably since he started his
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chocolatier business I'd like to
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introduce Sean - Adam - Roni and his
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business it's located on Broughton
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street it's called chocolate ears by
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Adam chuckle up by Adams running by Adam
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that's simple enough Adam has really
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made a name for himself now in the
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chocolate world
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so I there's no way that I can rattle
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off all the things that you've won so
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you know it won't embarrass you if I ask
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you to tell everybody
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absolutely not all the honors that
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you've gotten no you know it's been so
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long since we've seen each other and
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someone know and so this year we
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actually were awarded top ten chocolates
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here in North America
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you know that's huge the top ten
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chocolate ears now you went too scared
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didn't you Adam um no I actually did it
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I went to the Culinary Institute of
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America oh no no and they started baking
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and pastry so I never studied chocolate
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used is typically no you know it's one
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of those genres uh well our pastry is so
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broad and so we learn everything in the
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pastry world but I decided to specialize
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in that when I got came in school when
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you got to why what's up
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you decided to go into chocolate when
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you got wide um really when I had the
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class that I learned from my chef that
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wasn't what your school you decided it
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must have been in the latter end of your
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schooling she was decided to go into
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chocolate and you fell in love with it
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it was unlike any type of thing I've
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ever done anything so good thank you
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I mean he's sharp y'all he's incredibly
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beautiful it's all these little bites
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just all these wonderful little bites of
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chocolate and thank you so much oh I'm
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proud of you because I feel like you
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were
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my show was probably one of your first
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chances to be on national TV it was you
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really gave me my first love I loved
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promoting my friends especially my local
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friend oh thank you so much
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no I just I just love helping people
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because I had people help me and there's
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nothing nothing like somebody sticking a
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hand out and saying you know come on and
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you in the community you know you really
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nurture the relationship that I had with
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even the city getting to know everybody
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and so glad he was so supportive oh yeah
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what I was doing and you are a brilliant
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when it comes to do what you do so
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you're still in the same location that
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you started being are I am yeah I'm West
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Brom is a beautiful little still work I
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can't believe the friend that brought
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you here last I know he left behind
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right
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no but you probably made so many friends
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at you I have all the experiences I've
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had here wait a minute where do you find
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your employees you know I it could just
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be a home baker someone that's
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passionate all it matters for me is that
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your passionate passion that you're
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passionate that's right that goes
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farther and they you can teach him you
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can teach him also I have to create a
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lot of the time I feel like I have to
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now I'm working with private companies
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as well to create new items and you know
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I have to create a little group that I
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work with it's such a small kitchen yeah
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you have to be surrounded by people who
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are just as passionate and inspired as
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you are I um and if you don't if you
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aren't surrounded by that you know for
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me it doesn't work and it could go
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downhill really fast so I've learned
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that those are the type of people that
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you want to be surrounded by and that
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work hard that are passionate and you
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know then it just this energy just works
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that's wonderful but you know now that
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it's almost been five years since I
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opened my first shop gosh it's been that
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long since I last saw you
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because you had just opened
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and he walked in this morning y'all and
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I looked at him and I said Adam you're a
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man cuz he was a kid he truly was a kid
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but I saw that passion in your eyes I
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saw it so let's take a quick break and
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Adam has brought us something that he's
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gonna share visually with us yeah just a
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little bit of the things he does the
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space that you live in really affects
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the way you feel so my first
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hundred sixty-five nine 3300 that's one
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eight hundred six five nine 3300 okay
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we're back with a Damini he brought
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something to show a show I have no idea
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what it is I know it involves fire cuz I
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saw the torch so Adam tell me where to
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stand where to be yes what you're doing
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so I brought actually the chocolate that
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won us the award for top ten oh good and
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so this is our creme brulee truffle oh
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my gosh do I love creme brulee so this
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is creme brulee chocolate it is however
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there are sugar crystals on the outside
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you see how it's kind of sparkling know
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what don't oh I don't know where I've
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got my glance well it has a Emer to it
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I've got glitter on my face because I've
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been buying Christmas pillars so yeah it
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kind of looks like my face
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well so we take these sugar crystals and
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it actually encapsulates the whole
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chocolate and what we end up doing is
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when you order it at the store we take
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this blowtorch uh-huh I'm gonna turn it
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on I love these it's very dramatic and
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then that stripper don't get to that's
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on the outside don't get to go oh it
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does turn into creme brulee exactly
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that's why I try one yes okay all right
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you don't have to match that I don't
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want to burn Clifford and so you want to
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do it very close a little closer yeah
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whoa you wonder why so far yeah there we
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go all right can I go a little bit here
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okay we're good okay let's go the
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kitchen goes fast
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all right here okay okay perfect wait I
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missed that age okay you're probably oh
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those are beautiful and young um and
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then it's so Adam I hope that you heard
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what he said
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this won him the award for the top ten
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chocolate ears in the northern north of
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the United States right like not South
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America but all of North Carolina
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number ten it's just as important that
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all of North America I mean this is
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unbelievable
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and then I write something oh my gosh
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look at this y'all I know you love your
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milk chocolate so Ashley I love milk
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chocolate now what is that so this is
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the Georgia Peach white chocolate and
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it's a butter ganache so I take butter
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and I whip it up
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yes and these the mint julep oh this is
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the Georgia Peach
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okay how that has the peach these are
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Adams favorite y'all the milk chocolate
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peanut butter cup we make our peanut
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butter in-house no and look at this
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that's beautiful for Valentine's Day
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that one's our red velvet cake oh my god
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what is that that one's our passion
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fruit and what is that the golden
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Bailey's you know what everything is
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don't you
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I've set the golden Bailey mm-hmm but
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look and do you have this box to display
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everything we do this is our book box so
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we have BOM assortment of words and kind
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of build oh my gosh if y'all come to
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Savannah you've got to promise me that
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y'all will come by Adams shop because
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it's unbelievable how beautiful his
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cabinets are with these wonderful little
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bites
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speaking of bites you ready yes I can
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have a buyer I'll try that okay I'm just
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made those just are so so good mmm
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mm-hmm
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a little bit of salt really taste like
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that peanut butter cup I buy from the
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grocery don't work it's not your mom was
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mmm
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so there's gonna be sweep mm-hmm but
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it's caramelized white chocolate so it's
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gonna taste just like a creme brulee I'm
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sorry that is out of this world thank
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you I can see why you walked away with
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that award thank you
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mmm no it's going in the center like a
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creme brulee
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no it's not that crust
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I think that's the best thing I've ever
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taken did you make oh now that's too
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nice of a couple that from you that's
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very sweet thank you
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you don't expect fit to have those
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textures in your mouth do you yeah and
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you know they say chocolate you can't
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overheat it you can't you know you could
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burn it and I say let's take a torch to
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it yeah I know let's try something you
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know white chocolate it is so it's white
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chocolate and then we caramelize it in
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the oven really really slowly and a at a
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low temperature so that those sugars in
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the white chocolate caramelize itself
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how did you teach yourself all this
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stuff Adam no I mean I I have created my
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own recipes and you know styles and I'm
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the look but you know it's you know
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experiences in life and schooling and it
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takes a whole sort of big picture to
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come together
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mmm you know how would you see in front
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of you it takes a good team and I'm so
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proud of you the fact that you took the
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bull by the horns at 19 years old I mean
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any of us mothers out there would love
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to take credit for having you as a son
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oh because that 19 knowing what you
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wanted to do and really go in after it I
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know you've made your mother very very
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proud and just think of all the
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wonderful chocolate she gets on Mother's
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Day absolutely Oh peanut butter cup is
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incredible now with that little bit of
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salt on it so anyway if you're ever in
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Savannah you've got its Broughton Street
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or Main Street one of our main streets
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in downtown Savannah
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it's chocolatiers by Adam chuckle up by
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Adam - Ronnie - Ronnie that's it he
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knows he knows what he knows - Ronnie
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and you know you have I've noticed you
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didn't we opened up a second location a
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year ago where I should have come by
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next time you're down here on Boland
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Liberty you know you don't mean it and
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we actually made it look like a library
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so hang on so that's why I brought you
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our book bar
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so can you checking on a partner I have
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uh Alexandra is my business partner and
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you see her over there looking like the
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modern-day koala deville she trying to
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figure out who she looked like she's the
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hind the scenes but I loved her jacket
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or whatever it is she's wearing yeah
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yeah she's definitely uh you know she's
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the other half that I can't be or you
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know that I when I have someone join our
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team it's because I hire people that are
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good at what they do and I stick with
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being good at what I do and we all work
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together and and it's hard for you as a
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business owner to fill all those shoes
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you have to rely on others and that's
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scary but an entreprenuer absolutely
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well Adam thank you I told you years ago
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I was so proud of you and I'm still
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proud of you today and I thank you so
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much and I want you to come on
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positively Paula and see if there's
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something that you can teach us to make
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it home
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absolutely I'll start working on
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something else okay thank you thank you
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I hope y'all enjoyed getting to know
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Adam today in his product he's he's a
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genius when it comes to this sort of
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thing and like I said make sure you stop
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by and visit him and until next week we
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send your love and best dishes from
14:08
Savannah Georgia the space that you live
14:12
in really affects the way you feel so my
14:15
first recommendation is start by
14:18
updating your window treatments with
14:20
Smith & Noble Smith & Nobles beautiful
14:23
handcrafted blinds drapes shades and
14:25
shutters are custom made just for you
14:28
and they offer different service options
14:30
to fit your needs to get started today
14:32
contact Smith & Noble to get my special
14:35
limited time offer 25% off on your
14:39
window treatments plus free design
14:42
consultation create a space that you're
14:45
gonna love but details about my special
14:48
offer
14:49
go to Smith & Noble dot
14:51
/ Paula that Smith & noble.com / Paula
14:55
or call one eight hundred six five nine
15:00
3300 that's one eight hundred six five
15:03
nine 3300
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