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Paula sits down with chocolatier Adam Turoni, one of the top ten chocolatiers in North America and owner of Chocolatat by Adam Turoni (http://www.chocolatat.com/). He demonstrates his creme brulle chocolate and how they fire them every time someone buys.
Adam also shows off all his amazing chocolates and how they are all very unique bites.
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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Dean today and uh 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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chocolate here business I'd like to
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introduce y'all to Adam
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terrone and his business it's located on
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Bron street is called chocolateers by
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Adam choc up by Adam Try by Adam that's
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simple enough Adam has really made a
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name for him y'all in the Chocolate
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World so I I there's no way that I can
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rattle off all the things that you won
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so you don't it won't embarrass you if I
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ask you to tell everybody absolutely not
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all the Honors that you've gotten no you
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know it's been so long since we've seen
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each other and so much has happened and
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it's just been incredible and um so this
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year we actually were awarded uh top 10
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chocolate here in North America so
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that's huge the top 10 chocolateers now
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you went to scad didn't you Adam um no I
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actually didn't um I went to uh The
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Culinary Institute of America in New
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York in New York and they studied baking
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and pastry so I I never studied
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chocolate um specifically no you know
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it's one of those genres well our um
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pastry is so Broad and so um we learn
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everything in the pastry uh world but I
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decided to specialize in that when I got
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to W school when you got to what what's
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up you decided to go into chocolate when
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you got what um really when I had the
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class and I learned from um my chef that
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was a master while were in school you
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decided uh it must have been in the
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latter end of your schooling you decided
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to go into chocolate and you fell in
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love with it yeah it was unlike any type
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of thing I've ever done in the P world
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you so good at it well thank you I mean
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his shop y'all is incredibly beautiful
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uh it's all these little bites just all
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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 c i I feel like you were my
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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 chance and I
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love I love uh promoting my friends
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especially my local friends a thank you
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so much you know I just I just love
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helping people because I had people help
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me and there's nothing nothing like
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somebody sticking a hand out and saying
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you know come on come and you in the
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community you know you really nurtured
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the relationship that I had um with even
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the city getting to know everybody um
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and I'm so glad and the was so
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supportive of what I was doing and you
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are a brilliant when it comes to to what
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you do so so you're still in the same
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location that you started in aren't you
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I am yeah on on West BR it's a beautiful
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little store thank you I can't believe
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the friend that brought you here left I
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know he left me high and dry um no but
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but you probably made so many friends
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had you I I have um all the experiences
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uh I've had here where where do you find
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your
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employees you know
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I it could just be a home Baker someone
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that's passionate all it matters for me
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is that you're passionate passion that
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you're passionate that goes way farther
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and that you have a good you can teach
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them you can teach them also I have to
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create a lot of the time I feel like I
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have to now I'm working with private
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companies as well to create new items
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and you know I have to create a little
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group that I work with it's such a small
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kitchen that you have to be surrounded
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by people who are just as passionate and
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inspired as you are um and if you don't
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if you aren't surrounded by that you
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know for me it doesn't work and uh it
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could go downhill really fast so I've
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learned that those are the type of
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people that you want to be surrounded by
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um that work hard that are passionate um
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and you know then it just this energy
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just works that's wonderful but you know
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now that it's almost been five years um
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since I opened my first shop gosh then
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it's been that long since I last saw you
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cuz you had just opened up and he walked
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in this morning y'all and I looked at
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him and I said Adam you're a
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man that was so sweet cuz he was a kid
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he he truly was a kid um but I saw that
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passion in your eye I saw it so let's
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take a quick break and uh Adam has
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brought us something that uh he's going
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to share visually with us Yeah just
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something speci little bit of the things
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he
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call 1800
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3300 that's 1 1800 659
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3300 okay we're back with Adam and he he
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brought something to show us y'all I
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have no idea what it is I know it
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involves fire cuz I saw the torch So
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Adam tell me where to stand where to be
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and what you're doing so I brought um
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actually the chocolate that won US the
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award for top 10 oh good um and so this
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is our crolet truffle oh my gosh do I
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love creme brolle so and this is cremet
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chocolate it is however there are sugar
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crystals on the outside you see how it's
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kind of
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sparkling oh no I don't and I don't know
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where I've got my glass well it has this
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little Shimmer to I see it I've got
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glitter on my face because I've been
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buying uh Christmas pillars so yeah it
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kind of looks like my
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face well um so we take these sugar
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crystals and um it actually encapsulates
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the whole chocolate and what we end up
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doing is when you order it at the store
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we take this blow torch
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uhhuh I'm going to turn it on these I
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love these it's very dramatic it's
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bringing the drama and the theater is
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who so I'm going turn this on and then
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that Sugar don't get too that's on the
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outside don't get too oh my gosh it does
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turn into cremet exactly do you want to
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try one yes okay ready all right do I
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have to mash that I don't want to burn
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Clifford and so you want to do it very
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close oh real close fast y whoo you want
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catch on fire yeah there we go all right
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can I go a little bit here okay we're
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good okay a little bit so the key is to
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go little bit more right here okay okay
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perfect wait I missed that
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edge okay you're a
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pro awesome oh those are beautiful and
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y'all
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um and then so Adam I I hope that you
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heard what he said this won him the
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award for the top 10 chocolateers in the
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northern North America United States
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right like not South America but all of
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North Carolina number 10 North America
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North America what did I say North
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Carolina North Carolina it's just as
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important though all of North America I
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mean this is unbelievable and then I
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brought you something special oh my gosh
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look at this y'all I know you love your
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milk chocolate so yes I do I love milk
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chocolate now what is that so this is
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the Georgia Peach which is white
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chocolate and uh it's a butter ganache
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so I take butter and I Whip It Up um yes
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and then this is the mint chulip oh this
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is the uh Georgia Peach okay how that
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has the peach preser this is Adam's
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favorite y'all the MK chocolate peanut
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butter cup we make our peanut butter in
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house no and look at this that's
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beautiful for Valentine's Day that one's
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our red velvet cake oh my gosh what is
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that that one's our passion fruit and
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what is that the golden
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Bailey you know what everything is don't
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you absolutely that's a golden Bailey
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mhm but look and do you have this box to
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display everything in we do this is our
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book box so we have an assortment of 14
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that you can pick and kind of build oh
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my gosh if y'all come to Savannah you've
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got to promise me that y'all will come
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by Adam's um shop because it's
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unbelievable how beautiful uh his
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cabinets are with these wonderful little
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bites speaking of bites you ready yes I
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can have a bite I'll try that
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okay I just made those yesterday so it's
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so
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good that little bit of salt really help
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taste like that peanut butter cup I buy
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from the grocery store it's not your
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mama's peanut butter cup for
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sure it's so good so this is going to be
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sweet swe M but it's caramelized white
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chocolate so it's going to taste just
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like a
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cremola 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
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you no it's gooey in the center like a
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crambled EG and it's got that
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crust I think that's the best thing I've
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ever tasted that you make oh now that's
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too nice of a compliment from
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you that's very sweet thank you you
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don't expect it to have those Textures
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in your mouth do you yeah and you know
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they say chocolate you can't overheat it
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you can't you know you could burn it and
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I say let's take a torch to
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it I know let's try something new and
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this is white chocolate it is so so it's
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white chocolate and then we caramelize
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it in the oven really really slowly at a
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at a low temperature so that those
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sugars in the white chocolate caramelize
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itself how did you teach yourself all
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this stuff Adam no I mean I I have
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created my own recipes and you know
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Styles and um the look but you know it's
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you know experiences in life and
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schooling it's it takes a whole sort of
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big picture to come together to you know
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have what you see in front of you it
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takes a good team and I'm so proud of
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you the fact that you um took the bull
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by the horns at 19 years
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old I mean any of us mothers out there
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would love to take credit for having you
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as a son a that's
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um because at
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19 knowing what you wanted to do and
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really going after it I know you've made
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your mother very very proud and just
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think of all the wonderful chocolate she
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gets on Mother's Day
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absolutely
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that peanut butter cup is incredible
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y'all with that little bit of salt on it
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so anyway if you're ever in Savannah you
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got it's Bron Street our Main Street one
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of our main streets in Downtown Savannah
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it's chocolateers by
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Adam
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B turn
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turn sh up by Adam terone terrone that's
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it he knows he knows what it is terone
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yeah
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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 so I want you to come by next
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time you're downtown where um on Bull
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and liberty no you don't mean it and we
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actually made it look like a library so
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hence so that's why I brought you our
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book box today so and you've taken on a
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partner I have uh Alexandra is my
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business partner and you see her over
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there looking like the modern day qua
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DeVille she does I was trying to figure
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out who she look like
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she's the behind the scenes but I love
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her jacket or whatever it is she's
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wearing yeah yeah she's definitely uh
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you know she's the other half that I
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can't be or you know that I when I have
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someone join our team it's because I
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hire people that are good at what they
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do and I stick with being good at what I
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do and we all work together and it and
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it's hard for you as a business owner to
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fill all those shoes you have to rely on
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others and that's scary fun on B
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absolutely well Adam thank you I told
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you years ago I was so proud of you and
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I'm still proud of you
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today and I thank you so much and I want
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you to come on positively Paula I would
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love and see if there's something that
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you can teach us to make it home
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Absolutely I'll start working on
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something now okay thank you thank you I
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hope y'all enjoyed uh getting to know
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Adam today and his product he's he's a
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genius when it comes to to this sort of
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thing and uh like I said make sure you
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stop by and visit him and until next
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week we send you love and best dishes
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from Savannah
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Georgia the space that you live in
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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 and Noble Smith and Noble's
14:23
beautiful handcrafted blinds draped
14:25
Shades and shutters are custom made just
14:27
for you and they offer different service
14:30
options to fit your needs to get started
14:32
today contact Smith and Noble to get my
14:35
special limited time offer 25% off on
14:39
your witer treatments plus free design
14:42
consultation create a space that you're
14:45
going to love for details about my
14:48
special offer go to Smith and noble.com
14:51
slpa that's Smith and noble.com
14:54
paala or call
14:57
18006 59
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3300 that's 1 800 659
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3300
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