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Jesse Blanco, whose show is Eat it and Like It, stops by Paula's kitchen to chat with Paula. Jesse talks to Paula about how he started and how he has looked to Paula's start at Lady and Sons as inspiration. Jesse also talks about how he has learned over the years to be more efficient with his time. If you want to see Jesse's show, you can watch it on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNle6BK35tGzOhrVUveayCw
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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Deen and we got it cooking today
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cuz you know who I'm with I'm with my
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good buddy Jesse Blanco and if you have
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had the opportunity to see Jesse's show
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is called eat it and like it and Jesse
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goes all over in the southeastern part
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of the US and just discovers wonderful
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food and your show is on Sunday morning
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right Jesse at 7:30 8:00 7:30 a.m.
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everybody this is Jesse everybody he's
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done podcasts with me before yeah
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and so I know y'all gonna remember this
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handsome face he wants him TV he was a
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newscaster here you know for years long
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time ago yeah I've been doing I've been
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doing eating and like it for seven years
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has it been seven years cheers yeah and
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when and true story whenever I think
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this has gone on long enough when does
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it get easier and I go back to that chat
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you and I had at your house or you were
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feeding the squirrel oh my gosh oh yeah
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yeah she's feeding the squirrel and and
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you told me that you and the boys did
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lady and sons for 11 years before your
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moment came yes and so I think about
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that a lot you know year and a half ago
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like wow this this is just a grind and
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I'm tired and it's and I thought back to
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that every time well you got some years
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to go my friend so but it's it's going
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well it's going well so I'm you know you
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just never know what God's got in store
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for you no never know but it's true and
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you know we were like an overnight
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success a decade in the making but as
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long as you enjoy what you're doing day
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to day and even to this day as long as
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we're enjoying what we're doing they
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don't care I love what I'm what I do I
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love
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work love love love otherwise I couldn't
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do it right sure you know cuz I'm no
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spring chicken anymore but I try to keep
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up with the chicks you do it you're
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doing fine there you a Friday so tell me
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what is been going on oh my goodness
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well we like I said seven years seventh
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season of you didn't like it and we've
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we've traveled we've travelled probably
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less as a whole but getting smarter
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about it when I travel I shoot more
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segments right and so you save them and
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you know when you're first starting to
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figure it out you race to Atlanta and
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shoot one thing now I'll go to Atlanta
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three or four days there you go when I
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go to a town they gonna get all the
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juice out of me exactly
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it's it's great for all concerned right
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you know to get as much great things in
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as many things in as you can correct
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because that getting there and getting
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back home that's the hard part yeah yeah
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yeah that is but I might as well take
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advantage and then I I learned that you
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know you go through the grind when I
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first started this I was still a
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newscaster and new in the show so by the
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time the end of my season came along
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around Memorial Day you just don't want
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anymore part of it and you just want to
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stop and then around August you go okay
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I need to start thinking about what I'm
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gonna be doing for September again well
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now we've gotten into rhythm where you
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know what I'm gonna shoot more during
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the summer so that I'm not grinding in
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September and October anymore so we
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figured it out as we've gone along I
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mean you know we don't have a big
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production company that knows and booked
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flights and all that stuff so it's been
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grass roots and we figured it out over
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the last few years and so it's it's
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getting more and more fun
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so tell our friends out there JC how and
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where they can get your show cuz it
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really is a neat show thank you thank
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you yeah well we air like you said here
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on NBC in in Savannah Hilton Head Market
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highest-rated local show in town is it
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really yeah has been for years but it's
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also available on YouTube at Eden and
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like accom all of the episodes
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posted there by the night it airs but
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this past season we've been hanging
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around cement and Hilton had more I
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don't need to tell you how many new
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restaurants have come to this city
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mana is exploding in fact not all of my
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children oh and I got a lot yeah you
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know for inmates and children running
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they're always talking about a new
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restaurant now say where is that
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restaurant yeah I mean they're popping
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up like crazy they are so you got a lot
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of meat right here in this town and as a
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result we probably gone from maybe 65%
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of our content is local to probably
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closer to 75 80 because there's so much
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we want to get to I can do all savanna
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and and fill a season but we try to mix
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it up you know yeah but no ice cream
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mixing it with a scoop of butter pecan
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never hurt anybody
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why don't you brought a little clip
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Ellis I did I did yeah the the star land
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area and everything that's happening
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there is was our first episode this
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season yeah I'm the Bull Street corridor
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on the south side of Forsyth Park I mean
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that three years ago was you know
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questionable neighborhood and now my
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yeah and now you've got back in the day
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bakery Cheryl's been there for probably
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15 years yeah I I can't when you say
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that I can't believe it right but now
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everything is coming in around them at
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night yeah and there's a brewery there I
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love you knew that or not no area is
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definitely being recaptured and put to
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work with with a lot of businesses yes
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right at the other end of back in the
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days block is a brand new brewery
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literally nominate Dow yeah and there's
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Atlanta cos down the street star line
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cafe the guys who have been there for
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almost 20 years are right around the
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corner and so no I've never been there
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really they do wonderful food they're
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big in the movie catering here oh really
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yeah they're there food is wonderful
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they're only open for lunch 11:00 to
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3:00 Monday through Friday and we're
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where is that it's right on the right
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you know the Popeyes Chicken is right
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back there right across from Cheryl back
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around the corner it's in a house
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no big signs okay if you don't know you
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don't know but it's there and it's very
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popular at lunchtime they have one of my
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favorite salads in the whole city it's
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called the kitchen sink and they put
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everything on there and I guess chicken
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add it to that because I'm a big boy I
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got it well if you like salads I'll tell
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you I'll toot our own horn for a second
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but Paula Deen's Creek house okay out
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here on Whitmarsh we have some of the
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most incredible sad really
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okay yes we're good so if you're out in
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this area stop by and everyone because
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they are delicious
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yeah good Oh salmon salad or tuna salad
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well I'm getting hungry yeah so make me
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hungry or let's leave the space that you
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live in really affects the way you feel
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so my first recommendation is start by
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contact Smith & Noble to get my special
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Paula that Smith & noble.com slash Paula
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if they're about as Universal in the
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south as NASCAR and sweet teeth even if
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they are sometimes met with contempt I
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got up that morning and they had this
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big pot of grits on the stove they said
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that's breakfast you know make your
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plate sit down eat and I was like what
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is this
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why would someone voluntarily eat this I
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mean it was awful but if you are used to
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them you just kind of find a way to go
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with the flow right I'll be honest I
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think I probably grew up for like you
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know the chief quick instant grits and
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then we obviously would learn about you
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know the real thing and just fell in
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love with them and I really never
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revisited grits after that it was just
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not a part of my life hi enjoy grinch I
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enjoy a bread my momma my wife and my
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mom were awesome cooks making grits
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tastes great as the result of practice
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time and quality ingredients but how
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could something so simple taste so good
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you can find them in some form on a good
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many breakfast tables across the south
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and you look at the label of grits
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there's all these ingredients things
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like well it should just be corn that's
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all it is corn right that's right
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horn run through the mill and turned
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into this and the people behind some of
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the best around are trying to make
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believers out of us all
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yeah people freak out they don't know
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what to do it and so we sit them down
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and calm them down we should sample them
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here you know get people really excited
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when it comes to grits maybe even some
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shrimp and grits we're gonna show you
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where you will eat it and like it
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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the space that you live in really
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affects the way you feel so my first
10:29
recommendation is start by updating your
10:32
window treatments with Smith & Noble
10:34
Smith & Nobles beautiful handcrafted
10:37
blinds drapes shades and shutters are
10:39
custom made just for you and they offer
10:41
different service options to fit your
10:44
needs to get started today contact Smith
10:47
& Noble to get my special limited time
10:50
offer 25% off on your window treatments
10:53
plus free design consultation create a
10:57
space that you're gonna love but details
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about my special offer
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go to Smith & noble.com slash Paula that
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Smith & noble.com slash Paula or call
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one eight hundred six five nine 3300
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that's one eight hundred sixty-five nine
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thirty three hundred
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