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[Music] it's 8:00 on today coming up on the Move flash flooding causing major problems up and down the East Coast within an hour it was it was like a lake while hurricane lead barrels toward New England so what can you expect AL C your forecast then stuck at Sea efforts underway to free a Norwegian cruise ship after it ran ground more than 200 passengers on board and held maybe days away we'll have the details plus Friend Finder inside the new trend that has friends tracking one another's locati

on for safety and for fun and I get the text it's like I can see that you're still at your house please hurry up I can see that you're still getting ready you said you left 10 minutes ago like usually from me but is it too close for comfort what you need to know and tearing up our hearts and sfe reunites for the first time in a decade at the bmas 20 years ago we were just kids when we won best pop video for bye bye bye tonight's big winner Taylor Swift and she's ready for it are you doing someth

ing what's going to happen now the surprising moments and performances that have everyone [Applause] talking today Wednesday September 13th [Music] 2023 cting 2 City Arkansas today I turn 75 from Philly visiting from ly Wyoming Nebraska and buy Louisiana good morning to my grandchildren Elanor and Clayton watching in Napa California Detroit Michigan on a girls trip celebrating over 50 years of friendship I've been a law fan of the Today's Show for 30 years celebrating J's birthday from St [Appla

use] Louis all right 811 we're going to take a closer look at a new trend you probably use your phones find my app to check the location of your earbuds your other devices your phone your iPad where is it Anyway a lot of young people are actually using that very same feature now as kind of a form of social media when we when we need things explained we bring in NBC Savannah sellers our resident TR F there go this is pretty interesting so one generation 's phone finder is another's Friend Finder

nearly 70% of jenzi and 77% of Millennials are tracking each other's location according to a recent poll we sat down with one group of friends to hear why they are so obsessed with this feature I am the friend that is looking at your location the idea of friends constantly knowing where you are might sound too close for comfort oo Emma's at the gym Stacy's at Work O Mia's at her exit but many genen Z and millennials say for them it sounds like friendship Apple added the find my feature to all ph

ones over a decade ago as a way for people to track lost devices but now young people use the app to monitor others devices and deao location often posting about the trend on social media using it for everything from making sure friends and family get to where they're going safely to browsing people's locations out of curiosity apps like fine my friends have surged last year 6 2% of all adults used location services compared to just 7% a decade ago find my is an application that comes with the i

Phone and you have to opt in to find my friends to sharing your location with other people when you go into the app you'll see who you share with and who shares with you and I can see our interview subjects are approaching Maya Caroline and Ja all work together you're all in to find my friends yes very much so and they all have each other location along with quite a few other friends how many people do you have on find my friends I have 14 I have around 20 I had 35 wow you reach a point in a fri

endship where you're at find my friend's level yes one of the main reasons is safety it starts as a safety measure where you're sharing your location with your friends so they can know where you are but then as they have your location it's turning into more of a form of social media where people are checking it constantly checking and keeping friends on time and I get the text it's like I can see that you're still at your house please hurry up I can see that you're still getting ready you said y

ou left 10 minutes ago like usually from me but it can lead to an awkward chat if you no longer want someone knowing exactly where you are have you all been asked why' you stop sharing your location with me I have yeah yeah personal yeah I guess apart from parents there's no need to know where you are all the time that's just something that we've kind of invented I think so can this go too far has it gone too far I think it definitely can go too far one of my friends could be obsessively checkin

g my location 24/7 and I would have absolutely no idea which is a little bit creepy I had never thought of it as intrusive or invasive until we started talking about it and I was thinking you know it is a little abnormal we're the first generation to actually be the people who people know where they are at all hours that's not a concept everyone is comfortable with especially for people who didn't grow up with cell phones in hand everybody has to know everyone's business all the time and I think

that's completely different than when I grew up having someone know where I am 24/7 would be very very strange I think but for these young women it's part of every minute of everyday life even including the time spent in our interview you just got your phones back anyone need notice that you all were here together yeah one person what did they say she had all of her location I was like what are you guys all doing together at 30 Rock wow so of course one thing to keep in mind especially if you'r

e a parent and your kids are using this location services tracking people there's obviously concerns just make sure your kids know who exactly has their location also though yesterday during Apple's big event they actually announced that they have increased the accuracy this is one of the new features of the iPhone 15 it's going to have a new and more sensitive tracking chip look at this visual right here the find my app will give you specific directions and distance when trying to link up with

one of these friends that you follow in crowds it'll be look at that 7 even better they'll be like you're at Rock you're in the commissary you just ordered a burrito 30 F put that down exactly it's a lot would you do you do it no no but you track your kids I track my kids that makes sense and my you know airpods you know what I mean but yeah well see that's exactly what it was cre for you permission you have to give permission for the you have to opt in on both ends but yeah you know I I've got

17 people in mind which started 1 people you're following or they're they're following you both we of we both it's mutual so they have me I have them started as the girls pointed out when we were on a trip together to be like where is everyone and then you kind of just keep it and then every now and then you're like where's so and so in no universe is that in no universe is that a that's what I'm saying I mean if you have kids that makes sense I don't you don't want anyone tracking but I mean I

don't I don't want to know how boring I am they'll be like you're still at home hey just a quick reminder we want to remind you to you can stream your local NBC station and fall all four hours of today live on peacock find the details at peacock tv.com Morning News all right Mr Roker thank you uh let us talk about this shiny piece of Hardware that's here with us um this is the uh Sol solim Cup solim Cup by the way the most highly coveted golf trophy in women's team competition with America's 12

best squaring off against their European counterparts this happens every two years it's been going on since 1990 oh what a fun team event a long with the cup we've got three members from Team USA with us Captain Stacy Lewis world number three and Olympic gold medalist Nelly Corda and the current world number two Lily AB Vu ladies good morning I mean Stacy you're the team captain I am what's your you're vet what's your advice and also what does it mean to be working as a team like this it's been

so much fun I mean these girls are so good now it's so the golf is just so impressive and um we we got to go get this trophy back here next week and um but it team events are so much fun just to get out there um go crazy we need the fans to be loud be crazy so uh we're excited L you've had a huge year I mean you're ranked number two you've had two majors already what would it mean to you to add this to an already impressive year so far yeah it mean the world to me I've dreamed about playing for

the this team since I was a little girl we don't get a lot of opportunities to play match play at this level a lot so super excited and looking forward to playing with my 11 other teammates I love that Nelly we remember you from the Tokyo games where you won Gold you competed in the last two uh solheim cups those teams went to Europe what will that trophy mean to come back to the us this year for you I think it would just be a cherry on top honestly um getting to represent my country has been an

amazing opportunity um and to get to do it alongside 11 other girls this year and um to get another opportunity to uh represent the Stars and Stripes will be really sweet absolutely it's very pretty it looks good on it's beautiful actually very pretty we need to get this back okay well go get them thank you so much good luck and of course you can catch full coverage of the solheim cup right here on NBC golf channel and peacock starting next Friday September 22nd let's go USA let's go let's go y

eah up next time to get our flu shots going to roll up our sleeves we're also going to answer your family's top questions about the upcoming flu season but first this is today on NBC [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Applause] he [Music] [Applause] w [Music] we're back with your health Ready or Not F season is right around the corner CDC wants to see everybody 6 months and older get that flu shot this year and every year oh you are obious going in for the sexiest morning anchor heard

look at that show those guns Dr I apologize in advance Dr is a cardiologist wait wait wait vote forist vote for L Hospital northwell health she's with us as we roll up our sleeves thank you Suns out guns out how are you Dr I'm well let's talk about the critical importance of getting our flu shot this season yes so it's so important you know 8% of the US population get sick with the flu every year and we may think it's just a cold but in fact there's tens of thousands of deaths that occur hundre

ds of thousands of hospitalizations so why is it important well the vaccine can help decrease the severity of how sick you get it can decrease your chances of going into the ICU getting hospitalized dying you're risk of developing complications like pneumonia ear infections or exacerbating underlying lung or heart disease for pregnant women it can obviously protect them and their unborn babies for those first few months of life and you're protecting those around you who may be vulnerable so the

CDC actually has a new campaign this year called from Wild to mild with these pictures of a big bear and a little teddy bear and it's really to set expectations that the flu vaccine is about 40 to 60% effective it's not going to potentially prevent everyone from getting it but it will decrease the severity of that if you get it you may not be as have moment of honesty I not that I'm afraid of shots but I don't love them but I do it anyway but I worry sometimes and I know I'm not alone oh I don't

want to get it today because I don't want to hurt or I'm afraid it's going to have a side effect I have a busy day today should we worry about side effects I mean there are side effects right every shot has the potential for side effects in this case they're typically mild and shortlived and it may be soreness of your arm a little aching of your muscle we doing it now oh ready it's like the office tell about your weekend but you can take Advil or Tylenol to help Rel those symptoms okay I I can'

t you know some people can't look I you can't look yeah so doc there there's a different I'm getting a a different shot I'm getting the shot for the 65 and older right why why is that why is it a different shot and why is that important so everyone over the age of 6 months is recommended to get vaccinated and for most people there's no real necessity to choose but for the over 65 population there are three vaccines that are really considered stronger or work a little bit more powerfully in that

population so there is a recommendation of those three for the over 65 population Craig is going to get the sexiest shot stop it stop it is that what does that entail I'm just kidding okay look we can't help you know if you heard he's up for sexiest Morning Show well clear voters please go to vote early and often for R Craig um what about like they're telling you should we should get the flu shot as I mean the the co shot as well it's okay to do the same day absolutely totally fine to get both i

t's safe and effective you can do same Arm about an inch apart or opposite arm so definitely you should consider getting both for convenience sake okay sex I'm starting a change.org petition as well to make sure that this really happens Dr n can another item in the news actually there was this um you're having a pink lollipop segment is so crazy you got a shot you get czy here um this decongestant the FDA is saying um oh okay not bad um the FDA is saying they want to pull off the shelves a certa

in kind of decongested just because it doesn't work right is it and how do we know like what's the brand names that we might be fam so Sudafed PE so fenine has been around since the 1970s it's in over 200 products but in 2006 it started being um uh much more readily available to the consumer because PSE Sudafed which is pseudo aedin was really put behind the pharmacy counters because people were using it illegally to make methamphetamine so now we really use fenine a lot of these over-the-counte

r medications like PSE Sudafed PE or some Mucinex Brands um and the issue is really when you take that medicine orally the research shows it really doesn't get to your nasal passages it's broken down in the body and really a very minimal amount gets to your nose and so it's really not effective it's potentially costing people money and so this FDA panel is recommending that this essentially be taken off the over-the-counter Market because it's it's ineffective so then what are you use instead so

you can either use the pseudo aedin right the original pseudophed or nasal sprays that have fenal Eon those are still considered effective because you're actually getting it into the nasal passage doctor why do you think Al and Craig got lollipops but Chanel and great question we not good patient thank everybody gets a lollipop get a Lolli stier to our nurses PA from CVS thank you oh my go not no we're not showing more chest stop it give the people what they want you're out of control voting is

over thank you so much we apologize we're usually much more well behaved hope you win I hope you win how long is this going to go on I hope not long we should mention everyone on the Plaza CVS Pharmacy is giving away items that will come in handy this cold and flu season so thank you to CVS all right you know the blue lollipop is just delicious but your tongue's going to be blue well that's all right just ahead Jill still and deals all about getting you more organized this fall but first this i

s today on NBC these are good you're [Music] right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] he jills Steals and Deals is sponsored by Wells Faro credit cards credit cards made for the way you live that's real life [Music] ready we are back 8:45 Steals and Deals time Summer's over kids are back in school let's get it back to the routine and of course getting organized and stay that way is key here to help us with great ideas up to 84%

off is our lifestyle and commerce contributor Jill Martin Brooks If you want to get in on the deals just scan that QR code or get whatever you see there on your screen Jill good morning good morning we haven't had a Steals and Deals together in a while and this is all triumphs these are all triumphs because these are things to get you organized I'm all about decluttering you know and this will help in every room of the house so let's start with the ourplace mini always pan 2.0 or mini perfect po

t 2.0 the retail 120 to 130 now if you want this go on now because I expect many of these to sell out quickly the first mini pan 2.0 is 8 and2 in and this pan does everything and you're a chef now so bake sautes boils brazes strains the pan comes with the steam release lid and nesting Beachwood spatula love the nesting spatula I love that you know that then the mini pot the 2.0 is 2.5 quart size it also does soup sauces eggs heating leftovers and more it also comes with a self basting steam rele

ase lid with strainer and Beachwood spoon um get more of the details online this is yeah I mean this is everything so the deal price is 60 to 65 50% off these rarely go on sale this is a great deal and I like the cool colors too yeah I mean just great as a pop of color in your but that's still a pop of color if the room's white okay so now this sold out last time because look at how organized this is this is the lotus sustainables lotus trolley and produce bundle the retail $89.98 so it's a grea

t solution for grocery shopping because you fill the cart and then when you're done you just take the bag they velcro together and then take it out and put it right in the car oh my gosh amazing so you don't have to get the bags they charge for it a lot of places yes and and also eco-friendly and there's an insulated one for like the milk and the eggs you know what else I like you can organize as you shop so it's easier to put away absolutely and it's machine washable I mean what else so it's re

tail the $89.98 the deal is $33 3% off this sold out quickly last time so a warning okay this is what Chanel needs because she has all bottoms with no tops and tops without bottoms that's this okay the joyel glass storage containers with lids 12 piece set the retail is $ 86.9 what's great about these is you could put it in the freezer you could put it in the oven and then you can eat right out of it so it's freezer to oven to table okay what about microwave um yeah I was I'm going to say microwa

ve but I'll amend that on my Instagram if it's not um so you'll feel super organized with this get rid of all the tops that don't have bottoms all the sacks that don't have sides and you'll feel organized and better about yourself when you're you know keeping your leftovers the deal price $39 for the 12 piece set that is 55% off I just include these little bags no that's with the um yeah oh that's with this yeah oh okay sorry no this no I got confused no this is no this is with that okay yeah th

at's the fruit bag I was like oh okay so next up I'm making things worse no no no you're not you're so next we have the organizer for your electronics the donut plus stand with 360 swivel bag the retail $49.98 to $54.98 what's great about this is if when you're cooking for your recipes you want to move it the swivel it also you can charge it when it's vertical this is great for a home office to keep everything organized the deal price is $20 that's up to 64% off and that way you don't need to se

e the wires oh got it jewelry sort through your jewelry all your delicate jewelry should have a home the benevolence La jewelry box the retail $50 the deal price is $22 look at all the sections for everything the Rings this tray comes out so that you have another section and this just keeps everything in its place Now's the Time to get all your jewelry together really take care of it have everyone have a home I like that so that deal even travel with it if you really wanted to absolutely and and

and it really does keep everything from detangling even just a little like the delicate cuz you wear a lot of delicate jewelry okay now this is the Adagio California airwan Styler set roll the video please to see how this works it's $299 is the retail this styling School tool just launched it's the Air1 set so you see you dry your hair a little bit and then it comes with these attachments that it's really easy to do it's fuss fuss lless yeah fuss free fuss free and so you put the attachments on

you can either do use the brush to get it straight or you use the other attachments to give you those sort of beach waves a little like mine is is wearing um that I'm wearing it now the deal price for this is $49 it's 84% off and you get all these attachments you get all the attachments and if you ever wanted to try this it's for any hairstyle and the the curls are really easy to do like it's people that say you can't do the back you can take the thing and you and it's very a little practice an

d you can get the hang of it absolutely cool Jill thank you so much shall we run through the products one more time yes the ourplace mini always pan or mini perfect pot the lotus sustainables lotus trolley and produce bag bundle that was the produce bag bundle that you picked up yeah the joy Joel glass storage containers with lids the go donut plus and phone stand with 360 swivel base the benevolence La jewelry box and the Adagio California airwan Styler set Jill great job thank you my friends s

tart shopping and you can find more exclusive Bargains too if you just scan our QR code or head to today.com deals just so you know today does make a commission for purchases made through those links we're back in a moment this is today on NBC [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] sh [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] oh too sex he's not bringing sexy back he had to go on an assignment all right it's time to celebrate some birthdays all right let's spin those Smuckers jars and honor some amaz

ing folks first up a happy 100th birthday to Marvin Argie a World War II veteran from Philadelphia Marvin and his wife have been married for 78 years congratulations and we thank you for your service sir darus Maxon of Scottdale Arizona is 100 a great grandma who stays busy by cooking for her family and when her knees start to hurt she hops on the stationary bike until they feel better I'm going to try that to us now let's wish a happy birthday to francita daviso a former a former seamstress and

business owner from Washington DC her granddaughter says she exemplifies a life of perseverance hard work and selflessness Hazel Gilman of Windam M 105 years old she's one of the original switchboard operators making sure phone calls go through heading now to Maran marahan Louisiana that's where we find Pearl Welch she's celebrating 100 years Smuckers jam on wheat toast for breakfast I like that and a happy 100 birthday to Helen Virginia Anderson of Houston Texas secret to longevity says she ea

ts lots of veggies every meal but more importantly followed by dessert like that happy birthday to one and all guys Craig had to leave a little early since something about canvasing for votes that's right voting is open he feels voters want to meet him personally and assess the sex those hands yes exactly right and on the third hour fun and creative ways to save all of the photos that you took this summer oh what a great idea then later on the fourth hour we're going to take you backstage with m

usic's biggest stars at the VMAs it's going to be a good one but first check if your local news weather these messages and vote for I was just about to say our sexiest Grandpa sexiest grandfather alive I'll be at the Iowa caucuses saying hello let's go after hi everybody good morning welcome to today every day we are adding to the star power in our studio the biggest names only on today say it worth coming in this early right everybody it's today like I won the lottery how do you feel at this ag

e this stage liberated we're just getting started folks a no stop with a The Boys Are Back In Town Boys Are Back in Town The mirac the mirac this has been fantastic everything and everyone you're talking about oh only on [Music] [Applause] today I woke up smiling on my face yeah yeah yeah no care no trouble in my way yeah yeah the sun is shining where I go yeah yeah that's how I know yeah that's how I know going to be great going to be great going to be a good day today going to be great going t

o be a good [Music] day [Music] this morning on the third hour of today VM amaz It Make some noise for INS sync a reunion years in the making in sync back on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards a night filled with huge Stars electric [Music] [Applause] performances and one run away winner the Unstoppable Taylor Swift live with all the highlights plus G Brown stopping by to talk queer eye and his very own daytime talk show then picture perfect we're having a ball with fun ways to get your summer

photos off your phone and make those memories last forever and in today food a pasta dish that looks almost too good to eat almost a creamy Italian feish you're going to want to make today when Wednesday September 13th 2023 live from Studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza this is the third hour of today good morning everybody Welcome to the third hour of today I'm Al along with Chanel and Dylan Craig had to leave a little bit early for an assignment but we want sexy well we'll get into that in a minute

we want to thank you with being us on a Wednesday and what day is it hum day right anyway uh thank you very much uh of course uh the parties in fact the VMAs might still be going on right now they went so late so many of the biggest names in music they all gathered Under One Roof including in sync back on stage together there was so much chatter about it so it was true at the V 40th MTV Video Music Awards but it was another pop star who dominated the night no surprise our entertainment correspon

dent Chloe Moss has the full wrapup you guys were up late last night all the entertainment reporters I have a lot of makeup on my dark circles this morning so no surprise that the summer of Taylor Swift carried over at the MTV BM she had a historic night winning nine statues they're called Moon people including artist of the year win but the highlight of the evening that boy band reunion that had everybody buing make some noise for in sync the 40 fmtv Video Music Awards kicking off with an epic

boy band reunion years in the making 20 years ago we were just kids when we won best pop video for bye bye bye in sync returning to the VMA stage for the first time in a decade the Unstoppable Taylor Swift the '90s icons presenting the best pop award to who else Taylor Swift asking the band what many fans were thinking are you doing something what's going to happen now what are you there's something they're going to they're going to do something and I need to know what it is Swift now has the se

cond most overall VMA wins after taking home nine Moon people overnight Nicki Minaj returning as host for a VMAs showcasing a nod to Nostalgia Latin music sensation Shakira performing a medley of her Mega hits with her sons watching from the audience one of the bestselling artists of all time was honored with this year's video Vanguard award rapper and producer sha Diddy Colmes received the global icon award after his first live performance at the VMAs in 18 years this is a a a a dream come true

for me rap icons like L Cool J helping to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop as some of music's current chart Toppers electrified the [Music] stage like Olivia Rodrigo and Carol G who made her VMA debut I spice won the Best New Artist award the biggest prize of the night going to Swift the Superstar winning video of the year for the second year in a row for her smash hit anti-hero this is unbelievable this is I I just want to say that the fact that this is a fan voted award means so much

to me I mean she's having a great season I know and so she goes on the rest of her ays tour overseas in November she's going to be in Argentina so she has a little bit of downtime there was actually a camera on her the entire night it was like a backstage camera and it was kind of fun to like watch her dance and this was her version of a girl's night she works so much oh that's true she yes but her version of a girl's night is filmed in the whole world and strangers are watching you who's won m

ore moonmen than her Madonna and so so the thing is though is that there were 13 categories that were not announced last night so if you want to know those you're going to have to go and look at them on X to see what they are you know used be called Twitter um and so some of those are artists of the year show of the summer group of the Year song of the summer big ones you know who won group of the year I you know what I was sleeping but I can tell you that Taylor W artist of the year and the thi

ng is is that my heart kind of went out for the artist that might have been in the audience we're hoping that their category be announce have to go just with those these shows and you got the performances and people kind of go they add lib I mean you know you know how it is yeah how great was Shakira my goodness you know what we won't get into it too much but like good for her you know she had a really tough year right with everything that you know happened with her marriage and she has come out

and she is fearless her performances were incredible winning the Vanguard of year award a video Vanguard of the Year award it was incredible and her kids were there I just say I feel like it's like I'm aging with the bmas and some the artists like my peers and I are the same age and sometimes I'm like but she has kids in the audience there I am eating popcorn in sweats okay like I look crazy and I was thinking you know when I perform at the VM I'll bring my kids I was like oh that's right you d

on't want to hear and by the way how many of those those performers were on our our summer concert know Olivia Rodrigo Carol G so pretty good thank you Chloe nice to see that's it hey we're going to turn out to some of the big stories this morning starting with the weather millions of folks in the Northeast are on alert for more flooding today 29 million people in the Northeast this is uh lemonster lemonster thanks sped we heard about west of Boston city under a state of emergency major flooding

wiping out roads forcing folks to evacuate their phone their homes and on top of the rain also watching for Hurricane Lee out in the Atlantic right now it is just south Southwest of Bermuda 115 M hour winds Category 3 storm moving Northwest at 6 miles per hour and as this makes its way up the coast not only do we have flag uh we have to worry about uh rip currents we also have to worry about these tropical forest winds that extend out 400 miles as it makes its way up the coast look at this by S

aturday from Monto to Yarmouth we're talking about these tropical forest winds extending out 500 miles or more plus heavier rain right along the New England coast so we will probably see tropical storm Watches or Warnings go up later today or tomorrow and they do not need any more rain up there absolutely not yeah all right well now back to the biggest story of the young NFL season that injury to quarterback Aaron Rogers the New York Jets have confirmed yesterday that Rogers will miss the entire

season with the torn Achilles he went down on just the fourth play of the game Monday night against the bills the team tweeted this yesterday not the way any of us wanted it to go but we know the commitment you've made to this team will continue to impact us moving forward get well soon uh the Jets did end up winning the game in overtime but now Rogers will undergo surgery and then the question is will he try to make it come back next year you know the interesting thing is it's like some people

have wondered are are the Jets cursed this happened back in 1999 I mean expectations were high they had Vinnie Testa verie first game of the season he goes down with an Achilles tendon here really what happened how did that end not well oh not well did he come back the next year you know I'm that I'm not sure about well and they were saying you know we had a physician on earlier to and you know he's like all hope is not lost I mean this season you know yes but you know the technology and the he

aling like let's just send them our Good Vibes and by the way like you said uh the Jets did win so you know let's not write them off J you're saying there's a chance exactly there you go all right well now to maybe one of our favorite stories of the morning people Magazine's annual sexiest man alive isue it's coming soon and they've opened their voting online for their reader Choice poll have you ever voted in People's sexiest in life you're going to have to vote now for all those of us who have

n't today is the day you know why some familiar faces made the cut the man to my right here is on the ballot for People's sexiest Grandpa there some tough comp I was going to say there's not a snowballs chance in go to the competition what did you say there's not a snowballs chance in Hades that I'm going to beat7 Michael Douglas or Kurt Russell who made Santa sexy listen I told him it's like student council president you're the likable Grandpa not that the other ones aren't likeable not the man

's most yeah it's the see sexiest sex is in the eye of the beholder and it's also in your heart you feel sexy you are well like I said like refresh I think shev's voting yeah she yeah she's voting for Kurt Russell oh please all right so but wait a minute this is an embarrassment of riches Dylan we're so lucky we are surrounded by sex we are Craig is also in the category for sexiest morning show host move over Mark vuelos move over uh George Stephanopoulos not this year and sorry Nate burlson you

know why because this this is Craig's year if Craig wins he'll just be sweating oh stop it Dylan uh Craig's got to bring sexy back so here's what we need to do everybody in the room everybody all of us get your cell phones out it's open now if you want to cast your vote Savannah this morning said please uh just head over to today.com and the sexiest man alive will be crowned on November 8th if I win it's another rigged election no I'm so excited we te we love you guys we're just you're I mean y

ou're like family to us so it's like if my brother got sexiest it's going to be so great all right moving on all right just said our consumer confidential that could mean big bucks Vicky win is here to tell us how to save money on those monthly subscriptions from food to streaming services and everything else we're paying for we'll be right back W you're hot so [Music] hot [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Applause] it's time now for our consume

r confidential so how many times have you signed up for a service or a subscription and you barely use it or you forget to cancel it well this morning we are breaking down ways to save on all those monthly payments so here with more of course is NBC News senior consumer investigative correspondent Vicky win good morning let me say for the record sexy is coming into my living room every morning and telling me the weather that's sexy moving on you're never living this down I know before we can sav

e money we have to see how much we're spending so how do we go through and see just what we're spending our money on you know sometimes people don't want do this Dyan which is get out your credit card statement and actually go line by line but it's actually a great fiscal exercise in general subscriptions are not but here's the thing what about that cooking app you signed up for that meditation app that exercise app in January yeah right are you but we'll go back to it but maybe you're not going

to go back to it that's an easy one to line item cross it out when you've decided the ones that you don't need anymore if you have an Apple phone you go into settings on your phone tap on your profile and then go to subscriptions they're all all there it's very easy to cancel I just want you to know if you've paid for an entire year you're probably going to still have that year they usually don't PR rate it and give you a refund okay on your uh Google phone your Android phone same thing go into

Google Play and you're going to tap onto your profile payments and subscriptions and then just toggle off any subscriptions you want to cancel just remember you can also turn on that um receipt renewal which is an alert that's sent to you basically every time they charge you every month or every year you get a little ping a notification uh usually after but if you cancel within a certain amount of time you may still be able to recover it if you say oh actually I don't want this anymore yeah you

can get your money back and the other thing is there are budgeting apps rocket and um rocket money and mint but sometimes you have to pay for those as a subscription so just keep in mind if you're not using it as a budgeting tool that might not be the best investment okay everybody thought oh okay I'm going to cut the cord I'm going to do just streaming it's going to be fantastic I'm going to save all this money and you're probably paying more right because every single one adds up you got one

show on this you got one show on that app so the first thing you want to do is think about do you need the premium top level Netflix account for $6.99 you can get Netflix every month you have to watch some ads but think about it every time an ad comes on get up and move your body squ if you if you've DVR it just fast forward through you could do that too we do like ads sometimes they pay of course we do um the other thing is go annual so a plug here NBC Universal which owns peacock that's our pa

rent company peacock subscription is about $6 a month if you bundle it and pay for the whole year you're getting two months free because it's $60 for the whole year so if it's something you love you know you're going to watch a bunch of different shows on it go for the annual also this is an interesting one we have American Express they offered a discount on Disney plus and a lot of phone providers uh T-Mobile has a deal with Netflix Verizon has 10 bucks and you can get Disney plus ESPN plus and

Hulu what is this Disney plus I've never heard of this I just I just know about lot people watch it but um and also I love this if it's free it's me I wish Craig was here but Amazon has free there's a 2B app Crackle Pluto Pluto the Roku Channel these are all apps you can install on your phone you get local news it's literally thousands of hours of free content no subscription required let's talk about Grocery and restaurant delivery there's also you know a lot of people have those subscription

Services yes so during the pandemic we all sort of got addicted to getting our groceries delivered now things are normalizing buy online pick up in store yes that's a thing and that's a way where you can conveniently shop online you're not paying for it to be delivered but you save time because when you get there all of your groceries are ready curbside so if you can do that you're not paying anything the other thing to do is take an audit do you really need the Amazon Fresh and the instacart an

d the various local grocery store delivery apps maybe you just get delivery from one grocery service and do bopus for the rest of them when it comes to restaurants we talk about this and people sometimes forget when you go to an Uber Eats or a door Dash or any of those third party delivery services often the restaurants have to pay a cut to those services and sometimes the restaurant has its own delivery service which is going to make the food cheaper for you and the restaurants get to keep more

profit in their pocket so always call the restaurant directly and ask if they have that instead of just automatic with those those restaurants you can order and easy to do right and then finally loyalty programs anytime you can sign up for that you are giving up some of your identity with an email or a cell phone number but sometimes those discounts are worth it okay and what about the fitness apps that we also probably dur in the pandemic signed up for and still have not everything has to be a

pple plus Fitness or pelaton right there are a lot of great free apps out there Nike all Training Club is a good one all Trails if you like to run and Hike uh fit on is another one and here's the thing if you go to YouTube I promise you anything you sign up for if you look up for yoga upper body training lower body training meditation all of that will be there on YouTube for free I do one called growing Anna and it is like a highly produced amazing uh high-intensity interval training workout and

are tons of you know great sessions that you can do and then finally you might not know but on Amazon Prime on Netflix they have workout and programing yes that you can do and that's already in your subscription you're paying for it great stuff just don't cancel us uh still ahead our series climate today climate uh this isn't your average walk around New York City we're going to give you a firsthand look at how scientists are hitting the streets to learn more about the air we're breathing then

later we eyes star car Brown is here yeah he is live to fill us in on the return of his talk show and tell us how to get into Club caramo oh there and no subscription needed third hour of today I'll be right [Music] [Applause] [Music] back [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] n hi everybody good morning welcome to today every day we are adding to the star power in our studio the biggest names only on today see it worth coming in us early right everybody it's today like I won

the lottery how do you feel at this age this stage liberated we're just getting started folks ain't no stop with the The Boys Are Back In Town Boys Are Back in Town The this has been fantastic everything and everyone you're talking about only on today this morning in our Series today climate groundbreaking research about the air we breathe this summer we had a dream team of scientists from around the world coming together to study air quality and pollution they collected data from space all the

way to the streets of New York and this morning we've got a firsthand look at just what they found it's been a summer of extremes heat waves wildfires drought and some of the worst air quality ever recorded air quality unhealthy from the Wildfire smoke alone for 98 million people natural disasters playing out around the globe you can think of climate change as a forc multiplier according to Dr Rick spin red administrator for Noah the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the climate cr

isis impacts our day-to-day lives from the food we eat to the air we breathe yes of course we had floods and fires and drought in years past but never to this extent this summer scientists from Noah NASA and 21 universities from three countries embarked on a first ofit kind mission to tackle air pollution taking measurements in a campaign known as sidewalks to satellites combining data from the streets of New York with NASA's new state-of-the-art Tempo satellite University of Colorado researcher

Brian Carroll describes one of the Airborne missions there's a variety of pollutants that we are able to measure and ultimately these pollutants are involved in Ozone production ozone is really important for air quality it can directly affect your lungs you can feel kind of a burning sensation the team collected data through the months of July and August Brandy mccardy is one of the lead scientists on the project one thing that was interesting about the measurements that we had there was the we

ekend weekday effect on a weekday we found ozone values on the high end of the spectrum while on a week end we found values in the background or on the low end our measurements show that our human behaviors contribute to our air quality then it was time to hit the streets Noah scientist Audrey Goodell heads up the one-of aind air monitoring program called air inequality NYC you have the white tubes that is sucking the air to measure ozone and then you have a teflin tubes here that is sucking the

air to measure Pate matter and I will have an app that will be reading the pat matter on my phone so we will be able to see the number uh while we walk in oh cool today we're walking through Harlem we wanted to to Target diverse neighborhoods so Harlem had has like this diversity in in Parks but it also has a lot of urban streets one of the Project's goals is to share findings with local leaders who can be better informed about the health impacts on residents in the neighborhood we're here at t

he corner of 138 in Frederick Douglas Boulevard and the air is still looking pretty good yeah it is yes does that surprise you it does actually how come because I would expect probably in the afternoon uh with this sunight um and cars are around to to have uh uh pretty bad air we finally found the bad air and to no one's surprise it was down in the subway now it's up to 20 20 yes and what's the limit 35 35 so it was a big jump coming down here to the train station yes so Audrey what do you hope

will come out of this so I think the most important thing is to have um very tangible and accurate data that that the public and community members can use to better understand the air the breathe H in in fact data collected from this campaign is currently being analyzed it's going to be ultimate ultimately available at our fingertips you know uh the the aqi air quality index app that we've all been checking since those wildfires well it's become one of the most reliable and popular tools to trac

k air quality data from this project is going to be used to enhance that accuracy and inform government agencies and local government governments who are responsible for public health to be able to take action so it's something that's going to be really you know living in New York City and raising my kids here that it's not as bad as I thought it would be and listen as much as we talk about start today and we're telling everybody about you know going outside and walking we want our air that we b

reathe to be uh in a good state so I'm so happy they're doing the work that they're doing that was great all right coming up queer ey Star Car Brown is here this morning to tell us about one of his other gigs that calls his Ultimate Dream and then later keep the summer Vibes alive with some creative ways to display your favorite photos from the summer cute this is pretty cool much more of this we come right [Music] [Applause] [Music] back [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music]

he [Music] [Applause] I woke up smiling on my face yeah yeah yeah no care no trouble in my way yeah yeah yeah the sun is shining where I go yeah yeah that's how I know yeah that's how I know going to be great going to be great going to be a good day to going to be great going to be a good day [Music] our next guest has many talents from reality star to actor and author in 2018 we came to know and love car Brown is the culture expert on Netflix hit show queery which has gone on to win 10 Emmy Awa

rds then last year Kurama also added daytime talk show host to his resume and he is back for more season two of his show premieres Monday and he's here to tell us all about it good morning to you good morning so great to see you you looking fantastic thank you I'm taking S tips from Al I just took a photo of you because I'm like I need this entire look so we'll see the chain look the chain look everything you know what I love the idea that you're doing the show is so welld deserved I hear you sa

y I mean you've done a lot of awesome projects that this is your dream job it is I've been dreaming of this since I was a little boy like um watching philu Oprah Montel that's all I want to do is be in a space where I could help people and have fun with people day in and day out and this is so perfect for you because I mean these are these are real people these aren't celebrities but you have been very open with the struggles you've had in your life and you can actually offer true advice to peop

le I mean outside of training like the mess that these individuals had in their life I've had the same mess in my life so there's no judgment I mean from addiction to um issues with fraternity of finding out my son when he was 10 like when my guest sit in front of me and they say like I'm having a relationship issue I say I can relate I know what it's like I've been there oh there go my babies they're so much older um there it's just it it I can relate to them and people know that I'm not judgin

g them I'm you know all of our lives are messy at some point and sometimes we just need somebody to give us a little of advice so that we can get through and it's not all serious I mean you guys you look at some of these videos your audience is having a party oh we have a good time it's it's like Club Kama I CL car listen my thing is if we got to go to work we might as well enjoy every moment of it listen you come to my show we going to dance we're going to have a good time oh why not though you

I mean again life is heavy it gets messy let's find the moments of Joy hey car I feel like it even extends to your Instagram sometimes you know I like to dance I'll scroll through your Instagram page and I'm like okay you have a good time so there a lot of people who still they love your show they also like queer ey is there anything you can tell us you know what fans can expect for the new season yeah so we're getting a lot more you know we we're amping up the the mess in a sense meaning peopl

e with authentic because think as like I have to a certain demeanor because I don't want to embarrass myself or embarrass someone else and I'm like emotions AR embarrassing healing is not embarrassing expressing who you are is one of the best things that we can do as human beings and so we're allowing people to be their authentic self we're coming to have fun um I unlock phones on my show to help people get through so it's one of my signature segments phones yeah so if you're conf about where yo

ur partner has been going what they've been doing I will unlock their phone and I have an FBI agent on my former FBI agent who will go through the phone up to 5 years after it's been deleted okay and we will get sounds like that could just roll right into your okay that that is that's what's going time for some healing okay yes yes yes so on on queery you're the culture expert but if you could switch to another role I mean would it be fashion what what would your other no I'm I'm taking advice f

rom my here from the sexiest grandpa in the world by the way I just voted for you um so no I think mine would be um definitely designed my dream has always been to be a party planner or like an oldfashioned um yeah like housewife oh there goes Bobby Burke who I love his book just came out yesterday everyone go get that you wear so many hats you're a renaissance man I mean you're fashionable you've got this show do you feel like it's all kind of working together because at the end of the day you'

re helping people and people you you you know you weed through all the stuff yeah and I mean I do feel like it's working and I'm very thankful like I was raised in a household full of women who were empathetic you know my my big sister Chamilia is watching right now hey sis um and she taught me how to be the most empathetic person and always lead with helping people no matter how messy Our Lives get no matter how much things we going through I know that God put me here to make sure that people c

an have a little bit of a breakthrough and that's what I'm going to continue to do you're doing congratulations met the moment friend meeting the moment you are season two of car premieres this Monday September 8 18th it is produced by NBC Universal syndication Studios which is part of our parent company NBC Universal so check your local listings for where to watch have some fun be rejuvenating all suit you going see me that suit coming up fun ways to use those summer photos like personalized go

lf balls that are going to be a big hit you might want to get some some aggression out about it yes that then later when life gives you lemons make pasta we're going to whip up a creamy delicious meal your family is going to love third hour today I'll be right back oh that looks good so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] good [Applause] [Music] ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] no matter what you did this summer there's a good chance you took a ton of photos with family and

friends well instead of just scr scrolling through on the phone and hey look what we did we've got some fun ways to bring those memories back to life our friend and lifestyle expert Amy e Goodman is here to show us how I feel like we've been shopping across all your like really cool ideas so I love that and ladies doesn't it feel just a little bit hot in here with our sexiest grandma we need to stay hydrated so I brought a wide mouth water bottle no straw yeah there is no straw with this one it'

s a nice easy to grab top you can start with a blank canvas if you like at up to 15 photos they have lots of templates too if you like to just drag and drop you know what I mean make it nice and easy is it so also I have to tell you I always use a reusable water bot and I lose it about month five it's really embarrassing I'm due for one so thus we have the water his family one right exactly it be weird if I got Dylan and you know what the all of the things you're going to show us this morning ar

e wonderful gift ideas you know for my grandmother for example I put the kids on there on a mug or you know what I mean they love it it's actually I love personalized gifts and these are all great for that so speaking of that we have personalized golf balls this is from personalization mall.com I know you're big golf am although these balls would all end up in the woods don't hit my face I actually have a theory when I have like a pink ball or a you know BCF ball I am I tend to lose it less in t

hose hazards because I want to keep it yeah so you get a dozen balls it's one photo so get your best selfie photo from summer we all got one we're thinking maybe I'm going to change my profile picture of this picture so do that picture it could be your pets it could be your kids and yes don't show great idea I love that I love that go that's a cute idea for the golfer yeah yeah for people who like sports journaling yeah you were just telling me you're a big journaler and this is from papier I lo

ve these journals for a multitude of reasons first you get your summer memory up on the cover they've got lots of different designs here we've got color block they've got a demi which is white plus color and these really fun film Scrolls but then inside you get to create new memories right so you're with your journaling I also wonder if I can find one they have dots you can chose dots or lines or isn't dots like so kind of like your it's kind of I kind of like it I like it too so we've got that'

s a blank one inside here we've got the dotted lines it is a love you were talking about the the wonderful idea of gifting these forward if you took a trip with your family you could do one with just your like your dad Etc and put him on the cover and send it along so these are just scrapbook kind these are just larger these are larger journals all your big moments that's a good idea though you can add a picture and then I love you write about it start at $32 tell us about this yeah so whenever

I travel I do a little tiny travel Journal but I have no place for my tickets my stubs and all the I actually saved the brochures too because there's so much good information in there but they stay like in a manila folder so this is a travel diary this is from uncommongoods.com and it's under $15 so most of my stuff ends up just sitting in a folder and you never see that I go to a concert you just want to SA pictures and bring back not that it ever went anywhere refrigerator this is C so these r

eally cute mini magnets you they magnets yeah they're magnets you get a set of 10 um they are from Snapfish and they're $112.99 so these are kind of small group yeah for a set of 10 you can see the groupings here of each of your families they're great to put up on a magnetic surface where do you get this this is you can get it from Snapfish snap and it's you know like $13 so it's a great way to Splash up your best summer photos people come over you start a little while you're if you don't like m

agnetic surfaces by the way you can get them also in matte card stock for the scrapbooking you were talking you're a big scrapbooker couple for your journal or maybe even for popping them into letters kids like to see themselves sometimes it's a proud moment like there's my picture and it brings back the memories it does it do IDE get to dry yourself off at these towels so you might be thinking gosh why are we doing pool towels at the end of summer but I have a idea for us here at today you're g

oing to take your best summer photo here you've got your Tri three boys from the summer you're going to print it now and use it next summer next summer you're going to do the same thing with your best family summer photo we're going to do a slow build here of this tradition of having summer family you have this memory you have a memory every time you go to the and then you know you so young then right are the kids look so young then what a great idea this is from npic by the way and the quality

on the towels it feels really good right and it's $47 and yeah this is 47 this a nice towel it's a nice weight and the quality of the photos I thought was really you can even add some looks nice love this is when I I didn't even know you could do this yeah it's cool right coming up next we've got a picture perfect meal we' got for you lined up an amazing lemon pasta recipe I've been waiting for this you are not going to believe it offred portali gonna be here a third hour today I'll be right bac

k this is really so cute [Music] beautiful [Applause] [Music] [Music] sh [Music] [Applause] [Music] this morning and today food we got this pasta dish it is simple yet so sophisticated your your family is going to be amazed Alfred portali is a James Beard award-winning Chef restaurant tour and cookbook author also The Culinary director of sanos a modern Italian restaurant right here in New York City and the executive chef of Port tal Chef good to see you to see pleas I love this is about as simp

le as a get but I I've been so looking forward to tasting this yeah it's a very very simple dish but very versatile um uh we start with I'm also finding a little bit of butter I've got a bit of heavy cream in there cream and butter so far check and to whisk whisk this in is there a temperature that's too high for it should be medium high heat okay um you want to just keep keep it moving uh once you emulsify the butter M then we add this is a mixture of lemon juice and lemon zest that doesn't mak

e it curdle or anything no no no lemon juice and lemon zest really quite simple so let's that's working we dropped the pasta I'm using fresh pasta okay um and that cooks faster than the the the the dried Box about 990 seconds oh wow yeah so we have some salted boiling salted water we cook that okay um I have some over here that's looks about done okay so this is it's a very simple dish I think a simple but rather elegant simp and easy and versatile um at sartiano we we serve this dish with a cet

ra caviar oh okay so shake it up so you could do like seafood with that like shrimp or something yeah I like to do it with smoke fish St salmon or even vegetables or like some bacon some bacon in there bacon all right then we're talking gu language so now you're just adding a little cheese chives I'm trying it and if it gets too thick do would you add a little pasta water to that or exactly exactly oh my gosh look at that that's it that's literally a 5 minute dinner you guys have to try that fre

sh pasta for first of all Priceless wait I missed this we put in there uh chives oh chives oh my gosh all right are you kidding me have it all right now I have to try and it's so simple wow bright flavors gosh amazing oh yummy is there a secret why is this so yummy that is so good that is delicious delicious Chef Al the fastest dinner I think we I know I want people to try so they can see why we're go to today.com food get this recipe this tonight third hour of today will be right back and you'r

e good to go yum people will kiss you full on the lips for this [Music] okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] have you ever eaten anything more delicious we are like all right tomorrow in the third hour of today Grammy winner Carrie Underwood is coming to our Plaza nice coming up on Hoda and Jenna Grammy winning rapper and actor IC tea we'll see you tomorrow have a great [Applause] day I woke up smiling on my face yeah yeah yeah no care no trouble in my way yeah yeah yeah the sun is shining

where I go yeah yeah yeah that's how I know yeah that's how I know going to be going to be going to be a good day going to be going to be a good day good morning everybody here's what's happening in your neck of the woods oh you deserve to be celebrated way to go Reynold oh Al Al you're all of our heroes y all love Al [Music] [Applause] [Music] Roker [Music] today actor rapper and Hip-Hop Superstar ice te is here class Project Runway judge Elaine Welter off takes us inside New York Fashion leek

and Donna hits the red carpet with the biggest music stars at the bmas from Studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza it's today with hod and Jenna it all starts right now you like it hey guys it is Wednesday it is September the 13th no hoder today but look who we've got Sunday today's Willie guys so great always to be here I was just admiring your new open love it A+ I miss the mom dance a little bit but I also Mom gaming you should have seen when Henry first saw that first of all I was like that's on ev

ery single day but he's like girls I heard him he was like girls mom is Dancing with these giant silver balls come look and I'm like Henry that's on the television show every single day open so what was the decision to get away from the dancing just more I we want to be yeah I think probably people were tired of us doing not me you tired of it I loved it oh my gosh were you up late watching the MTV video awards so I'm sort of in a weird place I'm a middle-aged man so it feels a little weird for

me to watch the VMAs but I have teenage children so I can pretend that it uh I don't think they knew it was on but they like all these artists right all of these artists except for first of all Donna was there she has a whole piece she was behind the scenes she looked beautiful no surprise okay Taylor Swift won big nine Awards nine Awards some kind of record that's incredible the other thing that was I you know I love Taylor Swift I'm a Swifty I was in our top 1% of listeners actually you were o

h you're hardcore then one of the things I love about her is she loves an award show first of all can you imagine a camera the camera was on her the whole the entire night and she's having fun and she's clapping and she's dancing yeah she's into it Bo what a year she's had huh it's she's it's incredible that tour has just been a monster all the best ways we didn't go but she's coming again next year it's like a 2year thing so I think we're going to catch her next time did you go yeah we went yea

h we need to go it was very very cool it was a little bit for I'm older than you but let's call it our our generation Our Generation some Throwbacks big reunion of in sync in sync back together last night did you ever see in sync in concert never saw him in concert admired them from apart Timberlake there last night yes he was does that mean oh is that for me oh okay um oh cool all right well yeah okay so I loved insync I went to the concert actually senior year in high school I put on my tube t

op in sync reunited we had Shakira we had Diddy we had LL Cool J and it just I was like are we watching the bmas from 20 years ago I know isn't that I think they're giving a little not okay yes Olivia Rodrigo is here all the cardi B is here but hey Megan estallion yes she's here but Mom and Dad we know you're watching too and that's us now that's the what I'm kind of wondering about like is the music we grew up on now considered Classics I think it is right so we think of Nelly so Nelly was like

those first songs were so big almost 25 years ago that's an entire generation so to our kids they hear hot and here or one of those songs has been re-released which I didn't even know right and they think oh that's a great oldie like the way our parents would play Elvis for us or something you know like the beach boy is Nelly This generation's Beach Boys well that's how he describes himself so I guess so not only not only though yeah is he one of the Beach Boys or the Beach Boys of this day he'

s back with a Shanti did you know that I didn't know they were together in the first place dude they were together in the prime time when we loved their music okay so 20 years ago they were together and now Nelly confirmed their romance in an interview on Love and& Hip Hop take a look wow so you and Ashanti are back together yeah yeah yeah yeah we we cool again y'all cool again we cool again I think it surprised both of us though it wasn't anything that was like I don't think planned I think we

both was pretty much doing what we do but sometimes being separate you understand one another more MH so they broke up wow they are now back together and they first got together in 2003 20 years ago okay they made it official last night when she carried a clutch with 's face on it oh that's it look at that clutch that's it now I was pretty pop culture aware back then I don't remember them being together she did all the songs with J Rule I know they weren't romantic but like they were I kind of r

emember them dating but maybe but it was also 20 years ago yeah see we are old by the way um that's a thing now a new trend the clutch with your well a clut your part face on TR and I think we might have one oh it's gift wrap so we got to go through the whole shebang okay open the gift you see you wow guys guys the production is real half uh seriously you justed half hearted glued a picture of our huge faces well they cut clearly cut a family photo cut out the other people it's not even the best

angle of me but thanks guys it is a trend would you ever wear like Christina on her t-shirt um I think I did on her 40th birthday that we had t-shirts made but just for I don't have that as a t-shirt we should make one remember us from rhs bridg High School class of 93 so you wouldn't you I don't know that's weird right is my um my dad has a t-shirt with his dog Barney who has actually since passed may he rest in peace and it said my favorite child and it just has a picture and we didn't it was

n't like we're like haa let's give it to dad he had it made I guess I don't know if he had it made for himself but he received it wow which and he likes to wear it sort of in front of us I going to say really sending a message around the house right yeah rub it in I kind of not that I would say my favorite child but I get the dog thing now that we've had a dog for about two years now yeah never had a dog before I I totally did you not grow up with a dog I didn't grow up with a dog you grow up in

the city I well no we had my we had some cats of the whole thing but now I was like I don't know if we should ever get a dog and then Christina will come in the kitchen I'm on the floor spooning the dog and just talking to him she's like wow things have changed and fast no okay well we got a cat you just got a cat not just we got a cat for Mila adopted a cat for Christmas her name is Hollywood I love that um she and Henry who was a dog person is now a cat person he says he's a holly person cuz

it's like not cool to be a dude who likes cats you know but he's like Hollywood and we do tricks with her she's kind of a dog cat really now the name Hollywood comes from what from Mila named her Hollywood like the name she thinks she's a star her name is Holly her middle name is wood and her last my sister got a dog Libby and the boy young boys got to name the dog so he is rocket ship rocket sh so they went got down to Rocket and now they're down to Rocky but full name rocket ship like Hollywoo

d yeah um okay but you have a great new Sunday sit down this weekend yeah got one of the biggest artists in all of music one of the biggest artists in country Kane Brown he started doing viral videos on Facebook like lying in his bed singing cover songs that's how he became popular yes it's one of these new I mean think of all the artists that have had that we also play he's a great basketball player so we went to the park uh down in the village wow was that during the um heat wave that we've be

en having in New York City it was last week I think it was 98 plus humidity and he's got a light sweater on he's like he's like I think I dressed wrong for the occasion but we had fun he's a really good guy really thoughtful smart guy and Incredibly popular artist so you can see him this Sunday on Sunday today well I love first of all I love Sunday today but nobody is your bigger fan than Henry Hager oh you he always is watching your Sunday today program even not on Sunday it's very strange he w

atching on Wednesday exactly okay um y'all it was an epic night last night at the VMAs Donna has your VIP pass to music's hottest red carpet right after this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] e [Music] [Music] [Applause] he [Music] one of the hottest shows of the year went down last night just a few miles from here at the presedential center in New York New Jersey and of course there is one person who would not miss a party Miss Donna hello Donna that's true hi Willie hi Jenna this w

as Major it was the 40th MTV Video Music Awards and the red or I should say Pink Carpet was everything and inside stars like Diddy Shakira and even a reunited in sync took the stage for an epic night check it [Applause] out it's the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards live from Newark New Jersey please welcome Nicki Minaj MTV make some mced by Nicki Minaj the show started with Lil Wayne and Olivia Rodrigo get it back in sync shocked the crowd with an onstage reunion and Taylor Swift couldn't get enough

of it remma and Selena Gomez won best afro beats for calm down Africa in the house tonight I'm very grateful that God chose me for this you know gracious moment and the VMA award goes to let's see let's see Anita Anita took home the award for best Latin it's always been my dream to show Brazilian Funk to people so for me to see like the artists are getting it embracing it feeling it it's amazing Shakira [Applause] [Music] Shakira and Shakira received the video Vanguard Award presented by y clap

is there something that you guys share together off stage I would say the coolest thing about me and shaki was when we was doing a studio session and we literally was staying sitting outside a fast food restaurant with no shoes on with a burger and fries and people was passing they was like there's no way that this is why CLE and Shakir to do Diddy received the global icon award his daughters were there to support him so excited so proud and excited and happy all of our emotions if you could giv

e him an award at home what would it be for being a dad actually best dad ever the awards recognize the world's biggest stars in music but what I found to be the most impactful theme of the night was authenticity and gratitude how does it feel to see such longevity represented here oh man it's beautiful when but it's an honor to always come here every year and be invited and participate and see fellow creatives dare I say we have the same vibe dare you say it and it's true you're always bringing

the style too I look at you tonight this is amazing Donna so is this you are rocking this dress your outfit is everything thank you thank you can I touch it oh my gosh are your eyes red or pink are they're red at the light amazing oh my God oh my God I want it I want it hi Holden and Jenna it's your girl cie what is it like getting ready with cardi B to come to the it's very busy you know cuz it's a lot of pieces to the puzzle we love it and this is what we come to do so everyone seems to be ve

ry happy that you and Nelly are back together and I saw this she said I saw this I mean come on from 2003 2003 this is where we first exchanged numbers so I was like oh this would be cute that's iconic oh wait till the album come out you going to hear that baby making music you going to hear oh we like you going to have that music where you like ooh I want to clean the house it's it's going it's going to feel good um Donna shall I say you were one of the hottest things on the carpet oh I love yo

u so much it looks like so much fun it so fun and you know the bmas are so fun they're always risque they're like a party and that was my first ever V did you stay in for the whole show you know I wasn't um invited inside but one year I will be year did a great job caret was great it was awesome all right well thank you thank you great job Donna thank you speaking of huge music stars look who's here the one and only ice tea catch up with ice right after [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this

[Applause] [Music] [Music] okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] I don't need your assistance social winning rapper songwriter producer and actor who has been entertaining us for 40 years also a husband a father a podcast host and of course A hip-hop Legend ice good morning great to see you thanks for having me we're so happy you're here so we Willie and I were talking earlier about on the VMAs last night it was this throwback and it's the 50th anniversary of hip-hop is it kind of crazy as a legend a

s an icon in hip-hop that this music could be considered classic it's crazy hip-hop has gray hair you know I mean you meet somebody's mother and you you don't think they're into it they're like I used to break dance I stop it you know so it it's beautiful 50 years and it's still thriving it's something that when I started they said it was a fad it won't last and here it is now you have hip-hop billionaires you have all kinds of different you know we've gone in different directions in the movies

television uh clothing it's just a beautiful thing and your your career which started of course in hip-hop it's just an amazing thing to watch to have the acting career you've had to do all these other things to see the guy I knew in the 80s hip hop on the box of Honey Nut Cheerios totally I'm like hold on a second nobody was more surprised than me I was like well what did I have to do with Honey Nut Cheerios and they were like well you know you're older you're still doing everything you were do

ing in your 20s and you know it's about our hearts and I'm like okay I'm in plus I love Cheerios me too but it's it's crazy for me too A lot of the stuff myself and Snoop Dog we're like we we call each other up like yo man it's so cool to watch that your career I mean one of the things and everything come full circle one of the things we were talking about earlier is that back in the day you used to have kind of beef with L Cool J now I mean me too I forgot it to be honest but then this summer y

ou were out on tour together just came off tour with LL um you know back in the day well always hip hop is just almost as much as sport as it is a music and having a nemesis having someone to say I'm better than and uh you know at the time LL was the goat he was the best out and I'm coming out of the West Coast and I got to say I don't think so I really don't think so and we went back and forth but you know at the end of the day it's hip-hop it was competitive we pull it together it's all about

the culture and now me and him are good friends and he took me out on his tour and uh we killed it out there together I bet you did I have no doubt you did is it amazing you to stop and think that you started back when you started almost a niche hip-hop thing was now is mainstream culture M it is I hear I hear News broadcasters saying we're doing news 24/7 I mean all these things are come from hip-hop but U Grandmaster Cass in my film I did a film called The Art of rap and he said hip-hop didn't

invent anything it reinvented everything so everybody's got a little swag to them nowadays yeah um okay Coco okay I love her You' all been married which I cannot believe this 22 years yes soon to be 23 what makes her per perfect for you we're very similar we match energies you know like you know kok's the blond bombshell I'm the I'm the street gangster so if she was a guy she would if the if the female energy was transferred over she would be the gangster and I'd be the bom you know what saying

so we both have this same energy which intimidates people and makes some people uneasy and and some people love us but uh I I I I really dig Koko she was the right person for me Koko's very out outrageous she couldn't have been happily married to like a lawyer or an accountant she needed to be with somebody who hit red carpets and you know I needed somebody to understanded how outrageous I can be at times so we work together in 23 years and we don't see any sign of it ever ended clearly it's wo

rking clearly it's working and You' got the cutest babe yeah we got to ask about Chanel Chanel she's so lovely okay first of all she's kind of got her own social media following like almost half half a million followers yeah she gets she gets people in their feelings when they find out how's that baby got that many people you know but um when when when Chanel was born we started a Twitter and a Instagram not for her but for us because I knew I was going to be that Dad posting hundreds of picture

s of my kids and I would irritate some of my fans so I'm like she'll have her own website so she has her Instagram uh I think it's baby sh baby Chanel whatever it's easy to find Google Google it but uh we post pictures of a lot of people have watched her grow up and she does Tik toks now she writes and directs her own Tik toks wow so I mean she comes on stage she just walked in a fashion show she does it all God she's having fun I mean right now she's just a baby and uh seven years old and she's

having fun so if it's something she wants to do we'll let her do but I would never push her toward any of this entertainment stuff cuz it's such a dream if it happens I mean one of the things about the internet though is that there's always somebody haters always people getting backlash how do you guys deal we don't you just ignore I only pay attention to people I love and I care about and my close family and Niche friends if me and you were close friends and you had something to say to me I pa

y attention but strangers totally I don't it's like walking down the street and if you could hear everything everyone was saying you could never make it down the street right right so I just tone it out I tell people if if you have a problem with social media broadcast don't receive just put out what you want but never listen to but you know what and I and it's like that's such good advice but sometimes it's hard to listen to and especially when it's somebody you love when it's your wife who you

adore who's getting Mom shamed do you ever want to write back and say leave her alone no because I don't read them I don't care I mean I love her to death so what do it matter what you feel about it totally and she doesn't care either obviously or she would she hasn't stopped has she she doesn't care so the business we're in you have to live it in a bubble you can't let the outside get to you and those people that let out outside opinions bother them they live a rough life they I don't I do not

care I do not give a f yeah I like it by the way and it's what we and it's what we need to tell our kids worry about the people that love you and you love forget the the the rest okay wait so when Chanel was born you decided to take care of yourself this is why this partnership is perfect tell us about this campaign um for the flu shop uh yeah well um it's Santa Fe it's a Flu Zone um I'm taking the high does flu vaccine is for people over 65 now I've been taking um flu shots for 20 years I've n

ever had one day sick on Law and Order over 20 years no and uh I just you know I've had this flu before and I hate it so it's voluntary you know first you got to check with your doctors make sure that you're not you know you you don't have any allergies to these flu shots but I don't think there's anything wrong with it and I got involved because I want to push male Health um men we don't go to the doctor as much as our wise C goes to the doctor if she breaks a nail you know what I'm saying we n

eed to so this you know the flu shot was something I already took so I got it got involved with Santa Fe I also did the uh the the trailer for the season which you can see on um at uh Santa flu shot.com yeah and you can see this trailer you'll think it's a a horror movie coming but it's the flu yeah but it's just my way of connecting to men and other people saying hey who wants to be sick you know and if you're not in the vaccines I'm not pushing the line you know this is just for people that ar

e interested in it go get it guys don't go to the doctor it'll go away it'll go away and and obviously talk to your doctor what what's best but you're a paid spokesperson for santaan oh absolutely absolutely but it was something that I got involved with because it was something I was already doing anyway exactly taking care of yourself it's super important okay we got more with IC he's going to stick around to answer some burning questions we're going to play around to set for spell right after

this oh yeah we are oh yeah we [Music] are [Music] [Music] w [Music] we're back with Grammy winning rapper and actor IC te who stuck around to play a game we like to call sipper spill all right ni so we're going to ask you a few questions you can either answer truthfully or take a sip of this preposterously I'm get ready to take some sips cuz I don't know what y'all about to ask don't is this sweeten I better be sweet I hope so I hope we got your order right is it sweet okay I mean this is not t

his white people drink unsweeten nice black people do not drink unsweet nice tea let's just get that straight I'm going to let you go first question so Jenna mentioned you and LL had that little bit of a beef back in the day because he claimed to be the best rapper in history ooh between LL and you who would win a rap battle me come on guys what do you think he was going to say me seriously of course yes seriously I mean of course you would seriously that I mean that's part of being a rapper tha

t's part of being a rapper you got to feel you know I I think I could get LL I think you now now we just started can we all come back and we y all do it here we just started to beach can y'all come back and do a little rap battle okay wait who's the best rapper of all time oo that's a hard one that's a hard one I think it's it has to do with who influenced you the but we're not even going to answer that okay sip it there he goes nice like it okay okay we all know um you as iced tea and your wife

as Coco but what are the nicknames y'all call each other oh boy oh my God what are my nicknames what I call Coco I think I got the basic one the boo boo sure Boo Boo and what did she call me oh oh she calls me Big Daddy Big Daddy and I'm not and I'm not that tall yeah wow Zinger yes sir I love it yes sir all right how about this one you've been successful in entertainment for more than 40 years the most expensive over-the-top thing you ever bought with your success the most expensive over the m

ost expensive thing of course would be a home right yeah uh over the top like a toy of some kind probably a car yeah yeah car I have a a McLaren 72 Yes W expensive car that sounds expensive I don't know what it is but that sounds expensive but you know what it is sometimes when you work hard sometimes you have to reward yourself with it or you know you're driving to work and you're just like you know man I and you're like man you know I'm Sor and then you look at the wheel like yeah well I know

why I'm driving to work little reminder yeah yeah it's okay but no you you got to do it sometimes uh spoil yourself a little bit Yeah amen okay well ice we love you thank you thank you thanks Big Daddy that was it big you I don't can't call me big daddy okay okay got a little you need to sit you need to sip all right going up next to Front Road seat to Fashion Elite and it is sweeten it is it good project runways Elaine Welter off she's going to take us to some of the hottest shows of New York F

ashion Week right after [Applause] [Music] this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I [Music] [Applause] [Music] it has been a big fabulous week here in New York City and today is the final day of Fashion Week yeah it's almost impossible to score a ticket to these shows but guess who did style star Elaine Welter off who's going to show us three big trends from the runway but first check out her fashion fil day good morning today's show it is the fi

rst day of New York Fashion Week okay guys we are moments away from Christian theano I am so excited to see his 15th anniversary show there's a lot of energy back here the show is gonna start any minute let's go catch up with Christian oh excuse me hi so last night the Project Runway Allstar finale just aired and here you are the next day debuting your 15th anniversary collection it feels so great the show The Collection it's kind of for us and my world and our clients and our friends and all th

e famous women here we have men on the runway tonight we have shapes sizes ages we have things that are you know really wearable and things that are really fantasy I look at every single look and like make sure that I like love it as much as I did three months ago when we were doing it and and if it's not perfect like I will switch things around and like I don't like this lineup and things like that so it's like you think you have it but right at the end I'll tweak a few things really just happy

for Christian he's worked so hard and it's wonderful to see him blossome over the years you know past Project Runway and I think he really adores women and it shows I'm so passionate about everything that he represents I love structured architectural clothing with all of his range at his best and what I love most about him and what I love wearing is when fashion meets are we are pulling up to problem show it was supposed to start at 5:00 it is 5:26 but we are not giving up hope this is not a sh

ow you want to miss H has dressed everyone from Michelle Obama to Lady Gaga to Alicia Keys to Kate Middleton all right let's see if we can catch it we heard may have started but let's see you had us drive 45 minutes out of town basically in the rain to give us a breathtaking show that was entirely worth the drive it feels surreal because um I didn't um realize that a it was going to rain because it's at 5:00 Sunshine neither did I by the way the whole collection was this idea of you know Two Wor

lds and two continents and different people coming together a collision of it because in a culture often times we told east meets west but I thought it was time the West met the East and you know there's no harm in making mistakes having this dialogue conversation different cultures coming together as long as you see each other so that was the whole [Music] collection now we are back in the car I about to change into my little next look for Kina Strada We are booking it to the Brooklyn Navy yard

s if you're not familiar with Kina Strada it's basically the brand all the cool kids are wearing where did you draw inspiration from for this collection The Collection is called soft as hard I believe the only way to get through what we're going through in the world is through feminine strength so that's what I was trying to bring to the runway great Silhouettes something comfortable comfortable that you can wear and get ready for battle cuz it's a long fight you have a really unique and distinc

t crowd and client how would you describe the person that you design for I try to design for myself and my friends and kind of everyone in between like I'm like how can my sister who's a lawyer wear this how can my friend who's a rock star wear this so I really try to give everyone a moment within the show and I hope that shines through I had a lot of fun today but you know what after 10 hours packed with fashion your girl is tired I need to kick up my feet but don't you worry because I took not

es on all the trends and there's a lot of wearable looks in there for you so stay tuned day I know elain you're Trooper okay let's talk with the trends you saw coming out of Fashion Week the first one is taking over the Internet yes this might be my favorite Trend I'm calling it The Old Money aesthetic you know style stars like sopia Richie are bringing this to the Forefront but this is what I tell everyone it is loow for season okayer season yes Lo are the easiest way to get this sort of Timele

ss Chic classic look they look expensive but there's so many inexpensive they're everything on this table is $50 or less and you can get these from Zara um so from Runway to real life right here I wear loafers with everything and it's so much more comfortable than heel seriously I I might need some loafers okay let's talk about the second Trend okay so and you can also wear loafers in silver which brings us to our next Trend which is metallics the Beyonce Renaissance dress code did not stop with

the world world tour I can tell you because we saw metallic metallic silver all over the runway I think the easiest way to incorporate a metallic silver trend is in accessories so like a bag and shoes and chunky jewelry this feels like it looks like an evening wear kind of style but actually you can wear it with almost anything think about it as like the new this silver is the New Black and you can wear it with anything I mean it would look great with what you're wearing right now and this way

is from Target 25 even look look with you yeah look at with you with you thank you target I love Target finally we're seeing ballet go from the stage to the street yes so I'm calling this ballet core and it's basically sort of ballet inspired looks tool Shear um and corsets are the easiest way to wear this so you can really dress it up or down you can throw in a Blazer over it you could wear it with a little simple tea underneath you can wear it to work with a widel trouser I'd love to see you i

n it I think you look Fab it you need to dress hod and I will you do it I would love to do that I'm sure you'll be getting you guys heard this you can dress us I'm very very excited ballet I just need trifa I got you I got you I had my eye out for you guys not to be honest when I was looking at the runways I was like what would Hoda and Jenna wear so I'm actually so excited let me guess you in we're in's going love that thank you thank you great job out there thank you so much for having me comi

ng up next the alternative rock band making big waves in the mainstream yeah Lany performs their latest hit single right after [Music] [Applause] [Music] this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] all got way too much time the city music series on today is proudly presented to you by City Indie poop Duo Laney has been selling out venues across the country with songs like this one Malibu night their new album is called I really really hope so drops later this

month Paul Jason Klein is lead vocalist Jake gos on drums thanks for being here guys what do we get what do we get to hear today double XL double XL okay take it away y'all [Music] [Applause] okay all my favorite songs from 2018 through around the world with a small town dreams you're a superstar and you wear it so well but nothing like you in my double XEL blood stream full of desert light in thank God I'm not trying BL the whole way on I still remember I will forever back SE secrets we will n

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ome see him on tour will be back right after this that was [Music] awesome [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] Willie you're the best love you Jen thank you for coming to hang and tomorrow y'all we got Cary Underwood that's fun Jeffrey said car and's going to whip up a delicious week night dish okay y' y'all are right in the middle of the week it's Wednesday let's just chill in hi everybody good morning we

lcome to today every day we are adding to the star power in our studio the biggest names only on today see it worth coming to this early right everybody it's today like I won the lottery how do you feel at this age this stage liberated we're just getting started folks ain't no stop of this SN The Boys Are Back In Town Boys Are Back In Town America Amer this has been fantastic everything and everyone you're talking about only on [Applause] today I woke up smiling on my face yeah yeah yeah no care

no trouble in my way yeah yeah yeah the sun is shining where I go yeah that's how I know yeah that's how I know going to be going to be going to be good day going to be great going to be a good [Music] day [Music] in the 1950s 60s and 7s blackowned restaurants weren't just places to get a meal several becoming crucial meeting spots for activists at the Forefront of the Civil Rights movie and the family still operating these restaurants today are committed to honoring their histor legacies it's

time to head out of Studio 1A and hit the road for a new kind of culinary Adventure follow me as I taste some of the most iconic Foods around the country and meet the families behind them together we're going to learn how a good meal has the power to connect us to our past our future and each [Music] other we're in Harlem the epicenter of Black Culture in the United States now many historians agree the Harlem Renaissance paved the way for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s so in this

episode we're traveling across the country to explore three legendary blackowned restaurants for Generations these beloved eateries have been serving up dishes to Historic figures and those fighting for change first up we're heading south to visit an iconic establishment that defied segregation laws New Orleans a city that celebrates food music nightlife and history in The Big Easy you'll find many historic sites that played a vital role in the Civil Rights Movement Like William France Elementa

ry School where 6-year-old Ruby Bridges broke barriers in 1960 or New Zion Baptist Church a hub for activists and T one of the oldest black neighborhoods in America here you'll find the only restaurant on the US Civil Rights Trail ducky Chase restaurant definitely is a historical land Landmark institution here in New Orleans this popular Ed is a Living testament to a woman who changed the face of fine dining in America Chef Leah Chase I'm Stella Chase Reese and I am the President of the corporat

ion here at Duckie chases and I'm Edgar duck chase the fourth and I'm the executive chef here at Duckie Chase restaurant Stella's grandparents first opened dookie chases as a pooy shop becoming a full service restaurant in 1941 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 eery it was my father Edgar Chas

e Jr and his wife Leah Lan chase that continue the Legacy that my grandparents started dookie Chase Jr was an avid jazz musician who promoted some of America's first integrated concerts his friendship with all the musicians Ray Charles and Duke Ellington and Sarah vaugh we will hear stories of them after their performance coming here to dine at ducky Chase and Leah was determined to bring an elevated dining experience for her black Patriots she wanted the best China she wanted Linens she wanted

them to be served the best they could be served because she didn't want our community to be deprived of anything else than any other community had that Community was on the brink of a revolution years in the making post 1865 in the Emancipation Proclamation with the masses of African-American people now free the country was overwhelmed hierarchies needed to be reestablished 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 were further cemented by the Supreme Court case pley versus Ferguson which upheld the separate but equal Doctrine but dookie chases defied those laws welcoming patrons of all Races to dine and discuss political issues facing the black community their willingness and and openness to everyone in the community made them a hub of safety made them a hub of belonging but that openness also made the chase family a Target th

ere were times that we had people throw things in and try to you know destroy the peace but that didn't frighten my parents they continued because they know what they were doing was the correct thing to do by the 1960s dookie chases had become a go-to spot where activists could connect and strategize we had the opportunity to serve many of our civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jesse Jackson Rosa Park th Marshall the list goes on and on and then Freedom bus riders they came here my parents

realized that until we all learn to enjoy life together and get to the that Port where social justice would be for everyone that this community or any other community in our country would not grow it will not be better in the 1970s Leah becoming passionate about promoting black artists her love of art was also celebrated here at dookie chases when she gave African-American artists the opportunity to actually display their art on her wall because at the time they had no place to display their Art

s her extraordinary life even becoming the inspiration for Disney's first black princess Tiana it meant a lot for her because she did have some of the kids dress up and come here Leah Chase the queen of Creole Cuisine passing away on June 1st 2019 but her spirit and her culinary Traditions are in Vigilant and capable hands this is Leah Chase's kitchen it's set up the same way and we love it like that cuz as you know she's still with us she's still watching this Chef Duke continues to serve Creol

e Cuisine that's been on the menu for decades from red beans and rice to shrimp clemo and the famous chicken aluki but the restaurant's most popular dish gumbo you think back to the Civil Rights era when we had leaders strategizing in our upstairs dining room we fed them gumbo you think about presidents today President Barack Obama President George Bush came here we always started them with gumbo because my grandmother always believed that her gumbo will solve any problems and we like to say her

gumbo changed the course of America gumbo an official state food of Louisiana dookie Chase's version has a little something for everyone not one but two types of sausage some Louisiana blue crab what we do here is we take this top shell off we clean it up and we just crack it in half release some of those flavors chicken and shrimp and is really coming out to be a beautiful gumbo the gumbo simmering until it's ready to serve I mean if you just smell this the neighborhood smelling this everybody

knows when dockie Chase is cooking Gumble today the chase Empire is expanding Chef Duke just opened the family's newest restaurant chapter 4 being a fourth generation African-American restaurant tour is huge many generations now working side by side being around my family all day that's the biggest blessing I'm so grateful that I get to work with all my family and it's such a joy and that Joy best expressed over great food hello family enjoying everything enj everything what's the song that ra

I'm going down to doie chase to get myself some gumbo when the service is right they treat you nice the whole restaurant dookie chases is a is a gift to the family that was given by my great grandpar parents and so we want to make sure that you know the restaurant sustains that Legacy and all the Traditions Leah Chase said food builds big Bridges if you can eat with someone you can learn from them and when you learn from someone you can make big changes we can change the course of America in thi

s restaurant over Bola gumbo we can talk to each other and relate to each other when we eat [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] together [Applause] [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he [Music] a trip to Harlem just wouldn't be complete without a meal here at Sylvia's Restaurant this neighborhood institution has been serving up soul food since 1962 and what started as a small lunchonette has now become a family Empire beloved by tourists locals and plenty of fam

ous faces the cornbread was sweet it was warm and it just reminded me of home it 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 soul food so where do you go in Harlem Sylvia soul food is the cultural identity marker that really surmises our journey as a people living in America tress Woods black is the granddaughter of the legendary queen of soul food Sylvia Woods Sylvia grew up in Hemingway South Carolina whe

re she met her love Herbert Woods when they were 11 and 12 they fell in love picking beans after school but this entrepreneur to be wasn't content with life on the farm my grandmother um she came to New York when she was 16 she knew that this was a place that was more palatable for African amans to like really live syia and Herbert were among the estimated 6 million African-Americans who left the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration they had came you know North to escape all of the atrociti

es that were happening and to really be in control of their lives if you were black you know Harlem was the place to be Sylvia finding work at a diner Johnson's lunchonette which she eventually purchased from the owner with a loan from her mom Mr Johnson knew that my grandmother would make it and on August 1st 1962 Sylvia's Restaurant was born as the cultural center of Black America Harlem became a crucial site for demonstrations and organizing by leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X

according to Professor psyche Williams porson the heart of civil rights is America because it wasn't limited to one one area though folks who were in the north they still experience poverty and inequality and voter suppression and homelessness Sylvia made the restaurant a welcoming place for activists she played her role as ensuring that the community leaders had a place to to meet and to commune and to strategize everyone dying that Soviet topsy Azie Davis Ruby D you know these are actors and

actresses that were on the front line by the 1960s the movement had achieved major gains like the historic Brown versus Board of Education and successful boycotts but racial discrimination and police brutality against black Americans persisted resulting in deadly riots throughout the decade two devastating events just four years apart sparked destructive riots throughout Harlem but Sylvia's was always spared Harlem was on fire and my grandmother kept the restaurant open because the grocery store

s were not open nothing was open you know people couldn't Beed their kids and she was in that kitchen making food so that this community would have something to eat this strong connection with harlemites has continued for decades we have that eat with us every single day and sometimes we have people that eat with us multiple times a day coming up I learn the secret to Sylvia's Famous Fried [Music] [Applause] [Music] Chicken [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] [M

usic] n [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he [Music] Sylvia's in Harlem has been serving up soul food since 1962 and this Native New Yorker couldn't wait to get back into their historic dining room it's so good it's been way too long missed you I've missed you too but you know what the good thing about Sylvia is it's like I saw you yesterday it's coming home it's coming home it's coming home the dining room walls showcasing famous faces and political figures along with Treasured M

emories this picture is one of my grandmother's favorites this was when Winnie and Nelson Mandela came to New York when he was breed eating here has become a right of passage for many candidates and there's a young man I don't know what ever happened to this girl you know I think he might have turned out okay I think so after a meal here yeah this is what sent him on his path that's right it's the it was the chicken it was the chicken but the heart of Sylvia's is Harlem tress and her family have

worked hard to stay active in the neighborhood from funding college scholarships for local teens to supporting black lives matter of B what is it about this restaurant that keeps people coming back authenticity authenticity times love Sylvia when you come to Sylvia you know what you're going to get you're going to get some good food that's going to make you feel warm today over a dozen family members help run Sylvia's Empire which includes a catering business and a successful food product line

what's it like working with family cuz I know your brother Marcus your baby brother Marcus baby brother is there in the kitchen what's that like watching my brother throw 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 grandson 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 I mean knowing that this Legacy your grandmother's in I'm honored I'm

honored I still get to cook for people like you and the the community of Harlem so as long as I can do that I'm happy and always honored and blessed you know the amazing thing is food brings people together you look in that that that dining room everybody's there yes well Sylvia used to always say that the first time you come to Sylvia is you're a guest the second time your family according to Marcus Fried Chicken the most beloved menu item so did your grandmother teach you how to do this yes s

he taught me how to Fried Chicken everything down to the seasoning she would always say you know moisturized chicken and marinate it like you're putting lotion on a baby now I can't get that image out of my head one secret Chef Marcus first applies a dry rub to marinate the chicken no is that just plain plain flour yeah this is plain flour we add a little coarse black pepper to it uh-huh drop them all in there you just want to give it a little mix again the baby metaphor the baby metaphor like y

ou're tossing the baby after the chicken's coated it gets a gentle Shake then it's into the deep fryer that looks like tender love and care right there see how gentle he's putting it in there putting the baby to bed yep they'll let you know when they're ready to wake up what's the best part of working here that every day when I walk in I get to feel like my grandmother's still with me yeah wow I feel her I I can really feel her presence in this place and it reminds you every time you're feeling

a little lazy it's like all right she's watching you better pick up your pick up the face and she cheated everybody been saying uh celebrity normal person worker dishwasher cook Chef I don't know if I can ever live up to who she was but I'm going to I'm going to try she was an amazing person after about 15 minutes golden Perfection wow that looks perfect this is a thigh person this I am a thigh person oh I remember how good this is that's perfect perfect wow the seasoning it's moist crisp oh you

r grandmother's smiling right now that's Silvia's Fried Chicken right there we treated the baby well mhm Marcus this is fantastic it's so great to see you if if you don't mind I'm going to take this piece to go oh I'm going to pack up a whole bunch of you thank [Music] you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome back in Oakland California Lois the pie Queen has been serving up Southern Specialties hospitality and

of course fabulous pies since since the 1950s but it's more than just a space for delectible food it's a well-known hub for political activists artists musicians and everyday folks to meet mix and collaborate come on down to Lo the pie Queen get your breakfast on and the mean green Lois the pie Queen is serving up much more than brunch Staples it's just a great place for locals to come great place for people to connect and it's just awesome that I could come to a place like this and have some s

oul food my name is Chris Davis and I'm owner of Lois the pie Queen we serve food that warms the soul this family's Roots Run Deep in Northern California Lois Davis Chris's mom began selling homemade pies at her church in the 1940s they were an instant hit her husband Roland dubbed her the pie Queen and saw a a new business opportunity my dad was a chef at b& Foods in San Francisco and they combined both of their efforts to open up the restaurant and serve breakfast lunch and dinner in 1953 The

Duo opening their Oakland restaurant so my mother ran the restaurant for 40 years and um it started at 4:30 in the morning for her and ended at 11: at night and uh she was a pure perfectionist Lois perfecting recipes she enjoyed growing up the recipes were my grandmother's recipes my grandmother was from Texas and they have maintained the test of time all of the items that are on the menu were pretty much on the menu when my mom started the restaurant from Key Lime Pie topped with raspberry jam

to banana cheesecake Sweet Treats are always popular here but there are plenty of savory Staples that keep C customers coming back every morning and there's one dish with a special place in many folks Hearts you might not find Salon Croquettes on the menu anywhere in the Bay Area the salmon croquettes are part salmon part mael yellow onions salt and pepper Italian breadcrumbs these croats which originated in the South were a meal staple for many black families most black folks couldn't afford cr

ab 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 meal Lois's dishes have brought in celebrities from Sammy Davis Jr to Zena and sports icons like Reggie Jackson ate here so often they actually named a pork chop special after him so here's my wall of fame and some of the special people that are up here here this is L Panther Party Minister ELD Cleaver all powe

r to the people in the 1960s and 70s Lois welcomed members of the newly formed Black Panther Party the restaurant is a short drive from Meritt Community College where activist uie P Newton and Bobby seal first met founding the party in 1966 Chris attended merit with both of them I had Elders Cleaver Angela Davis Bobby seal and H P Newton 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 U electricit

y in the restaurant uh when they visited the Black Panthers have a controversial Legacy the story We tend to hear is one of violence what we don't hear about as much are the various lunch programs and and free breakfast of course they saw 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 era the restaurant became an important Gathering space in the Oakland Community for 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 p mic providing 16,000 meals to locals in need it is a place for people to come and uh and get together and try and figure out how to make uh our community and our world a better place today that mission to help others has evolved Chris uses his platform to support local musicians and keep the restaurant Buzzy

by bringing in younger Generations I believe that that aspect of music and musicianship is something that is in the epis of the restaurant hey Mr Jackson how are you how you good I'm doing good babe good to see you man good he recently started a music management company for wise men entertainment that he unofficially runs from the tables at Lois it's not an accident or a coincidence that you look around and see a lot of photographs of you know famous folks there's a lot of people that he suppor

ts and I don't mean support just by putting our pictures up he'll cultivate young artists that are looking to get an opportunity to get a platform where they can be seen and [Music] heard would you like hash BRS grits or rice grits of course grits Chris is determined to keep the restaurant in the family his son Cory Jackson has been overseeing the day-to-day at Lois for nearly 5 years working with my dad gave me an understanding of not only the hard work my grandmother put forward and how much m

y dad is trying to feel those shoes and now I'm trying to F his Cory hoping his sons will share the passion for the family business they can't stay away they have a job right now they fold silverware it's great to see my kids and their papa Chris bond in those times Chris thinks Lois 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 efforts to support her community and to create a place that was a home a

way from home and a place that sered food that warms the soul 1 2es say chees [Music] chees as you might imagine keeping a restaurant running for decades is no easy feat especially in the face of adversity but with delicious dishes and unwavering hospitality these historic hotpots have nourished Generations fighting for social change these places now stand as symbols of resilience inspiring and feeding a new generation of community leaders there are dozens of chinatowns all across America with i

nteresting 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 chinatowns are rapidly changing it's time to head out of Studio 1A and hit the road for a new kind of culinary Adventure follow me as I taste some of the most iconic Foods around the country an

d meet the families behind them together we're going to learn how a good meal has the power to connect connect us to our past our future and each [Music] other 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 familyowned Chinese restaurant is in a place you might never think of but Montana at the turn of the c

entury but Montana was a bustling mining town the invention of electricity leading to a demand for conductors like copper mining boomed the city flourishing the demand for labor brought thousands of immigrants to BU they came from so many different countries including Italy Ireland and China it was the classic portrait of the American West with gambling saloons even a red Light District by 1914 but's Chinatown Was thriving with over 60 chinese-owned businesses now we're going to prepare broccoli

beef my name is Jerry Tam and I'm the owner of the pean noodle parlor the pein first opened as a tobacco shop and casino run by Jerry's great uncle hum Yao 2 years later hum adding a restaurant and the pein noodle parlor was born this building has three different levels the top level obviously is the p 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 tamang y it's crazy to think that you know everything came ove

r from China at one time like they didn't make soy sauce in America the noodles were fried and brought over on ships because they didn't make fresh noodles so the history of this place really holds true that this is a Chinese restaurant you know from Chinese immigrants I met up with culinary historian grace young to learn more about America's earliest Chinatown where was the first chinat toown and how did it get started the first Chinatown is San Francisco the first Chinese came to California uh

for the gold rush and that was 1848 and uh they came because America needed cheap labor and so from Gold Rush they ended up doing farming manufacturing and then event they worked on the Transcontinental Railroad and the first chin toown form because America wanted cheap labor but they didn't want the Chinese to live with whites so they were ostracized from White communities talk to me about that first wave of of Chinese immigration to the US the Chinese came from Southern China from principally

from the area of Canton and there was tremendous prejudice against the Chinese they were were lynched and because the Chinese were willing to work for lower wages they were seen as the reason why Americans were suffering so much so the blame was unfairly placed on the Chinese in 1882 Congress signed the Chinese Exclusion Act in the law it banned Chinese from migrating to the US it marks the only time in American history that an entire race or ethnic group was banned from immigrating but the int

eresting 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 the Exclusion Act of 1882 it was this exemption that allowed Jerry great uncle to open pein noodle parlor in but Paving a path for more family members to immigrate to the US and help the business Jerry's father Danny Wong arrived in the US in 1947

as a teenager ever since he was 14 years old he's been working at the Pika noodle parlor and he just started with the simple roles of washing dishes and then he learned how to cook and then he slowly just started integrating himself in to you know managing it and working with the waitresses and the staff Danny taking over the restaurant in the 1950s spending years turning it into a pillar of the local community well I've been coming here for at least 50 years they 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 I mean my father probably employed over 10,000 people at this you know throughout his whole entire life so it's interesting to know that there's nearly five to six generations of people that you know have worked here the menu at pein noodle parlor hasn't changed much over the years we do a thing called chopi and what chopi is is tidbits of leftover uh vegetables that were kind of

mixed together in its own gravy and served on top of CH noodles we've been serving it for over 110 years chop suoi is in large part why Chinese food became so popular across the United States chop suoi was the first time America EXP experienced a culinary craze a food craze and it's starting at the end of the 19th century that there are Americans who are venturing into Chinatown the way they got them to even experiment with Chinese food was to make a stir fry that was actually quite Bland so th

ey used bamboo choots water chestnuts onions uh often times there were celery for many years chinatowns were the only place where non-chinese Americans could sample Asian flavors Americans were going into Chinatown some were curious they wanted to experience curio shops Chinese operas with increased tourism chinatowns and large cities grew but it was a different story in Montana like many mining towns but lost many of its workers as production slowed in the 1950s once the copper ran dry then the

people started to pick up and just kind of move move on and move back to their families and the bigger States as miners left but for New Opportunities its Chinatown disappeared in the early 1900s there were seven chopi restaurants listed in the but City Directory today only the pein noodle parlor remains [Music] open [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Jerry Tam runs the pein noodle parlor in but Montana people may know this is the oldest

Chinese restaurant in America but below it is so much history despite pein's historic status Jerry says he was never pressured by family to join the business I never learned to cook until I came back uh back in around 2009 because like any Asian-American my parents wanted all of their kids to go to college so we all went to colleges around the nation and to get a better education to become a lawyer a doctor and what have you but I went into fashion and what was great about that is I got to see t

he 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 unfortunately my mom had a stroke so my dad needed help you know taking care of her and take care of the restaurant I think it was really hot on my father because they we in a generation where they loved each other every day and they were just best friends after Jerry's mom passed Jerry and his dad began operating pein together he never stopped working so he was wo

rking here all the way until 85 until he couldn't make up the stairs anymore my father and I spent every day together I made he was uh he was healthy all the way till the end the best of my ability I can do my my father passed in November and it was really you know heartbreaking he didn't want to say goodbye to my sisters or me or this restaurant or the community he love view Montana Jerry now runs pein noodle parlor with his cousin Nelson together they're working to preserve a family Legacy and

keep a piece of Chinese American history alive in an unlikely place I've been asked the question was the future of the peakin and the best answer I can give you is let's just keep it the same let's not change anything cuz that's what people come here for they need to have their parking spots they have their booths they have their favorite place to sit at the bar I don't think they want any change cuz this is a place that feels like [Music] home [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [

Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] while New York City is home to America's largest chinat town the honor of the oldest goes to San Francisco and that's where the Far East Cafe is located it is one of the last remaining historic Chinese banquet [Music] halls after a 2-year Hiatus this celebrated venue hosted the 64th annual Miss Chinatown USA pageant a Lunar New Year [Music] tradition the occasion marking a triumphant milestone for

this Century old Institution Bill Lee has owned the Far East Cafe since 1999 his daughter Kathy working by his side as the manager he brought me into the restaurant to kind of understand the roots of our culture he wanted me to remember that you know Chinatown is about Community it's about Traditions it's about culture for many in the community Chinese banquet halls are more than just venues for special events I feel that far e is kind of like a second home for you know a lot of our patrons that

come in because they feel so comfortable so much history and so many memories you know a lot of patrons that have been here they told me they're like oh my parents had my red egg Ginger party it's very similar to like a baptism and that was like 50 something years ago and that history is everywhere you look at Far East the ceilings like my dad mentioned the high ceilings the moldings the moldings are all original and the lanterns were all imported from China uh in the 1920s so they're over 100

plus years old for the last few decades there were five giant banquet style restaurants in San Francisco's Chinatown but with Rising rents and gentrification most have since closed their doors by early 2020 only two banquet halls Remain the Far East Cafe planed to celebrate its 100-year anniversary with a Big C celebration instead it's now planning to close its doors at the start of the pandemic the restaurant stayed afloat by cooking meals for senior citizens and lowincome residents in Chinatow

n we applied for a PP P loan and we got over $200,000 we also received money from the Feed and Fuel program then our landlord gave us 6 months of free rent Beyond Co a different type of virus brought more harm to 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'm like why is this happening to Chinatown why is it happening to our community you know for these people to Target elderly p

eople to push them down to Rob them don't they realize that they have have grandparents too or they have parents that are that age and if that happened to their parents how would they feel then people saw the attacks when they watched 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 10:00 before pandemic sometimes we would stay out h

ere until midnight if we had events now we can't we can't do that we change the business hours to close at 7 7:30 because safety is the most important thing business owners across Chinatown still face hostility Georgian Cindy chin opened China live in 2017 we've been lucky uh we've only had a couple instances where you know people scream uh anti-asian slurs and we're concerned about our employees you know coming to work and and being harassed gr I I think that ignorance is uh very unfortunate Ch

ina 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 a wedding here when I was in college and there were I think I think literally 5,000 people in like six 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 but two years ago the couple had to lay off 200 workers however with the support of Partners George and Cind

y were able to Pivot their business on a few fronts we did you know the ghost kitchen was selling outside our box so we have 10 locations in the Bay Area from San Jose to Berkeley and uh and they can order food from those ghost kitchens ghost kitchens prepare restaurant quality food exclusively for delivery or takeout we sold so many peing ducks we didn't know what to do with all the duck fat so what do you do you make popcorn with it so that's why we have a duck fat [Music] popcorn as business

picked up China live was able to rehire 100 workers despite an uncertain Future these restaurants remain hopeful that business will reach down more police presence people are more as a community standing up for ourselves making sure that we have like the Buzzy system making sure that we're together and we feel safe that we're walking together that we have each other's back I mean dining out is an essential part of life right I mean what more fun is to look forward to having dinner with friends y

ou haven't seen at a new place or old favorite place but some old favorites just can't be replaced during the pandemic many restaurants have shut down Far East is now the biggest restaurant in Chinatown if Far East closes there won't be space big enough to host large events for the community we were Overjoyed having that Miss Chinatown USA event here a press conference and just being able to reconnect with the community it warned my heart and my dad was just like so overjoyed that people were co

ming in just to [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] celebrate [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he [Music] to learn more about the future of Chinese American restaurants I went to visit Chef Lucas sin in New York City this Savvy Chef is on a mission to save mom and pop shops from closing and putting a spin on the classics hey nice to meet you all right can't wait to talk come in here come in here Lucas was born and raised in Hong Kong growing up he had

never heard of dishes like General so's chicken what was your first experience with Chinese American food and did you go what the heck is this I was here for summer camp and uh on Tuesdays at 10:00 or so right before bedtime this van would pull up in the front of the school um and you could pick between sesame chicken General s chicken orange chicken with broccoli and fried rice or white rice or whatever it was the first thought was that this is ridiculously delicious whereas this been my whole

life and the second thought is that what in the world is the difference between orange chicken and general chicken and sesame chicken why is there so much that I don't understand about this if last time I checked those was trending Lucas actually studying cognitive science at Yale but he always had a passion for cooking his Summers spent training in award-winning restaurants and Hong Kong in Japan after graduating in 2015 Lucas opened his first restaurant with Yale classmate Yang Zam junzi kitc

hen is a fast casual chain that serves modern Chinese fair but Lucas remained passionate about the Chinese American Cuisine he first tasted as a boy so so how did Chinese American food the food that we have become uh familiar with how did that develop how did that happen now Chinese takeout is interesting right because it's all over the United States so these folks come in they Apprentice in a restaurant they learn those recipes and they go somewhere else to open their own exct and then their co

usins come from fuen 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 once dotted chinatowns and other urban areas have been closing for years oh restaurants is really difficult and running restaurants is perhaps even more difficult these moms and dads open these restaurants so that their kids can go to university and become lawyers and doctors and television hosts and

whatnot and now that they're finally able to do that they don't need to run these restaurants anymore right the 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 stalled the team's initial plans but the second location in Long Island is slated to open this spring it's important to me that these new

Chinese American takeout restaurants that 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 they know what sells um they know how to cook these dishes they have recipes you raised an interesting point lcas in that you talk to these retired MH Chinese restaurant owners is that part of the the the sense of trying to memorialize what could be lost now preserving recipes is part of it but the other

important part is preserving the way business is done Chinese take restaurants are one of the few restaurants in the world that if they're open from let's say 11 to 10 the work hours are 11 to 10 they don't have any prep hours the same cooks that do the walk surf rise are also prepping during the day it's ridiculously efficient and it's got to do with the setup and the way that the kitchens are run but it's also important to us that we give back to this last generation and that we can make sure

that owners who want to retire can retire well and that that Legacy can be preserved in a new type of American Chinese takeout restaurant while nice day pays homage to popular Chinese American recipes Lucas has been celebrated for his Innovative Fusion dishes in 2021 he was named one of food and Wine's best new chefs we serve a mapo mac and cheese here which is a variation on the dish it's fusion and it's silly and it's just an attempt to do something ridiculous it doesn't make any sense um it i

t betrays every Chef sensibility that I have but unfortunately it's delicious and it's interesting and it gets people talking finally it's time to eat Lucas showing me how to make his signature dish how do we get started so the mapo mac and cheese here the mac and the cheese elements are rigorously American these are this is elbow macaroni right uh cooked halfway and this is velvo um but the mapo element is going to be in the form of a mapo sauce if you will the last two elements that really sor

t of take this over the edge is um Chinese sausage oh it it can function like bacon and some dried Shake mushrooms that we've rehydrated so um to start off with we're just going to cut a couple of things and this tofu we will then put into the deep fryer mhm this concludes The Chopping portion of our program next garlic and ginger are cooked till fragrant then spicy bean paste and soybean paste are added to start the sauce mushroom ball is added the mixture brought to a boil so the flavors infus

ed can I give that a try yeah absolutely here you go so your left hand's on the walk yeah yes I can't I can't I can't get any altitude on this thing nothing's coming up that's why the pros do it baby at this point everything's smelling quite good so the macaroni is going to go in as well as the soup we just made once it's boiling and happy two slices of the best of the best Vita Vita American cheese wait for that Vita to melt you'll see that that sauce is already beautifully tied [Music] togethe

r we like to Plate this dish in the Chinese heup box wow because it's silly it's fun boom some fried tofu puffs as croutons go over the top that's a little bit of texture and the omage the original mut tofu these fresh scallions are actually really important because they cut through the heaviness of the original dish wow just a little spice the creaminess the crunch of the the tofu I hope you get yeah get a little bit of chines sa yeah well you've never had mac and cheese like this amid a global

pandemic changing family Dynamics and anti-asian racism 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 come to Chinatown or your local Asian-American Pacific Islander Restaurant Store Market give them your business we have lost so much during the pandemic and I think it makes us a

ll so much more conscious that we have to protect what we love when you think Texas you think beef brisket and barbecue but here in Austin the state's capital there's so much more than that we've got folks and chefs from all around the world who are putting their mark on this City's culinary scene and in fact the spices and traditions that pay homage to their families are making Austin a hot food seed it's really kind of this melting po of different people their culture and their food the creati

vity and and the flavor that they put into the food is really Artistry right it's really the diversity of food like you can get some of everything here so what keeps Austin weird and tasty we're about to find out it's time to head out of Studio 1A and hit the road for a new kind of culinary Adventure follow me as I taste some of the most iconic Foods around the country and meet the families behind them together we're going to learn how a good meal has the power to connect us to our past our futu

re and each [Music] other Austin is home to over 1,200 food trucks in food Parks just like this one but we're here for one specific truck we're here for Tony's Jamaican serving up fine Caribbean fair to Austin for more than 10 years meet food truck owner Tony Scott and his wife Kim from humble beginnings in Kingston Jamaica Tony has made Austin his home since 2003 and he has always had a passion for flavorful food when did you start cooking how young were you 10 Tony's mother hin taught her sons

how to be self-sufficient especially in the kitchen so you learned from Mom early on yes what was it about cooking that you liked I don't know I like food I those days those skills learned during childhood would help Tony Define his career for nearly a decade he worked a small Beachside business serving jerk chicken and drinks to tourists in Jamaica but after 9/11 tourism to the island stalled so Tony moved to the US in search of better opportunities eventually Landing in Austin with constructi

on booming in the state capital Tony quickly found a job as a painter but it was his homemade lunches that reignited an idea you're working you you bring in Jamaican food that you made some of your friends taste as it where did this come from yes I cook my own food you know and they was like oh you should you know open a restaurant and it's been 10 years 10 years now the 60-year-old Chef opened Tony's Jamaican food truck in March of 2012 and his wife Kim has been one of his biggest supporters si

nce the very beginning what was the first meal he cooked curry chicken and rice and he invited me over and once I had it I didn't want to ask for more you know how ladies are we try to eat a little bit maybe the salad kind of thing don't want them to know that we that greedy but it was so good I asked for seconds so when Tony says I want to do a food truck your reaction I said a what I said a food what and I knew nothing about food trucks or however so it was just all his idea I just followed al

ong he said he wanted to do something he had a vision I said okay let's try it despite High Praise for friends and family for his grub Tony's business wasn't exactly booming from the start when you first opened up was it successful right away no I I came with de 10:00 in the morning and I was all here till 3:00 the next morning I make $37 wow and you know I was still happy when I go home and she was like how much money you make and I was like $37 and she break all live you I was like don't worry

about this and the next day I come and I make 50 something doll and the next day I make $80 something dollar and I said okay I'm seeing increase Tony taking advantage of the South by Southwest crowds that flocked to Austin in early March shortly after the festival his fledgling business got a big boost with a small writer Kim what what to you what was the game changer what what put this place over the top wow his presence and his his dedication DK chicken and hot now loyal customers are visitin

g this hot spot daily decked out with the colors and Vibes of Jamaica from curried chicken and goat to jerk everything food fans walk away feeling the island love in 2018 Tony laid down more permanent roots in Texas you opened up a brick and mortar restaurant were you nervous about that a little bit it was a let me Kim were you nervous oh yeah I'm so glad you asked me that question yes I was it was something totally different and from a food truck going into a brick and morar I didn't come from

the restaurant industry I came from the finance side coming in I was like I was telling Tony I said I got this you know I can run this no problem but oh no no no no I was ringing the the red light Bell like hey I need some help it was challenging but also it was fun Kim now helping run the business for both locations family always mean a lot to restaurant know sometimes she she would say you never know one day it might be just me and you you got to show me to cut this [Music] meat [Applause] [Mu

sic] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] chicken and a thank you very much sir have a great day you too God bless Tony Scott dishes out hundreds of plates to Hungry customers each day but he's best known for one Caribbean specialty my mother is Jamaican and in our house oxtail was kick yes oxtail stew oxtail and dumpling oxtail oil o my mom is Southern and she actually mentioned it to me I said oxtail and she just said it was a beef so I've never really had it and then when you first had it

it was delicious and I eat it all the time now that's the problem isn't it interesting that it was the cheapest cut of meat now it's considered a delicacy you go to all these upscale restaurants oxtail uh ravioli oxtail rice all the it's now everybody's into oxtail I know no I'm scared to go in a restaurant and not oxtail the price is so high bring on the oxtail sto Joy frequently sells out of the succulent oxtail and it was finally time to see and taste why welcome to the Chuck M oh yeah oh it

smells good smells like Jamaica oh this the oxtail the famous oxtail that everybody go crazy over MH and these are like the Jamaican product seasoning that we use this have a good flavor too oh wow Tony's oxtails are seasoned with a spice mix that includes garlic powder dried onion paprika black pepper sugar salt and a few Chev Secrets this is my product that I make it's have like onion um bell pepper um scotch buet pepper also have a little bit of garlic in there so this is like your own conti

on yes and then this is another Jamaican product they call you have a Blue Mountain Coffee uh yeah they say is the best coffee in the world but this is the Blue Mountain product of burn sugar oh wow and this is what we pour on it last give it that that good color then we just mix this up make sure you rub it in properly you want everything to rub into it normally if you take a smell of it even right now oh yeah you see you you can smell that flavor in it and it don't even it smells smells good r

ight he then lets the oxtails marinate overnight then they're added to a pot with water and slow cooked for several hours this what comes out to me oh now we're talking for you to taste I came to Austin the result truly out of this world you see how it fall off the bone oh yeah you we we make sure we cook real tender because Dental is very expensive and you know you go to some place you have eating that meat and you have to be to get it off the bone you don't do that when you come here good thin

g Tony feels like talking I'm too busy eating and it doesn't stop with the oxtails oh is it Mr H that's fantastic this is curry gold right here taste that this the jerk pork Oh jerk I've never had jerk pork before Oh and that's also my homemade jerk sauce that I make okay this is the famous curry chicken and this is the carrot oh so at least I can say I have my vegetables today yes look at how tender that chicken is Tony also serves traditional peas and rice which brought on a wave of nostalgia

this is black bean when you open that pot I thought wait a minute yeah this is my mother's bees and rice this is great and just when I thought I'd had enough wait a minute I I I noticed these are beef Betty I got to try [Music] out oh that's a great Cress as a reminder of how far Tony's love for cooking has taken him if you look up here you see these little Pats uhhuh this Pat right here is when I just started out this is what I usually cook rice into wow the reason why I keep this part to show

people is where Tony's Jamaican food is coming from so what would you tell people who are thinking they've got a dream they want to start something like you did what would you tell them first you have to motivate yourself to do it and never give up on your dream my mama always tell me don't make nobody tell you you can do nothing Tony thank you so much this is a pleasure it is nice meeting you it feels like I'm back in Jamaica I'm glad you have that feeling everything going to be all [Music] rig

ht [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] 3 [Music] 1 [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] go just a few miles from the hustle and bustle of downtown Austin is mikon beastro it is a spot that's loved by locals and tourists alike for its Vietnamese comfort food who's the better cook uh in the family um I'm not going to even bother asking my mom about that cuz my mom is hands down the best cup Chef will hin and his siblings opened meon bea

stro to honor their mother and hang a refugee who fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and working tirelessly to provide for her family in the United States she's took a chance to travel across the ocean with nothing in hand working ever since she's been over here working from morning to night uh and still provide us with a hot meal every day when Mayon first opened will hoped that his mom would finally stop working working but Anne had other plans Technically she's retired but like said she sh

e would not stay home Ann's passion for food starting in her home [Music] country in 1972 an married Kia Winn they had four children in Vietnam and turning to cooking to help support the family [Music] this is my dad and my mom right right before the Falls are gone when the Vietnam War ended the family was looking toward a better future in their Homeland but in 1975 the vietcom began to invade [Music] Saigon an's husband fled the city first will leaving when he was just 7 years old it was scary

we left separately me with my uncle and my mom with my three sisters that came a year later uh because if you get caught you were thrown in jail luckily we made it out we were rescued by Carlo boats but uh they rescued us they took us to the Malaysian refugee camp will and his uncle secured Refugee status eventually reuniting with Will's dad in the US in the Years spent apart from his mother will began experimenting in the kitchen with a little nudge from his uncle he told me that you know there

's only two of us you're going to have to do you know do your share so learn to cook something in 1983 an made the journey to the US with her daughters [Music] but adjusting to a new country as refugees was a struggle when we came over you know nothing in our pockets we we relied on government assistance a little bit luckily she's a great cook so it wasn't bad for us at all growing up that's how she's you know shows us that she loved us by you know putting all that love into the food the family

moving from Houston to Louisiana finding work in the seafood industry but well wasn't so happy living in a small town when his uncle invited him to attend high school in Austin will said yes right away I fell in love with Austin the beautiful lakes the miles of trails the music see what's there not Austin's vibrant culinary scene struck a chord After High School will found work in several restaurants dreaming of being able to Showcase his mom's cooking in 2015 the entire family moving to Austin

but Anne still wasn't sure about opening a restaurant asked her many many times in the past to do something like that she get said against it she said just way too much work eventually an agreed to share her recipes for just one reason her family she's she's emotional because like she basically you she's doing everything for her kids the first dish will added to the menu his mom's F so F you know at a restaurant is basically How We Do F at home uh when we cook F at home it's a big pot that's goi

ng to feed us for at least 3 days um we have it f for breakfast we have f for lunch we have f for m get some snack we have f for dinner and F at night for snack at night uh until the pot's gone with the help of his family will created several new dishes our menu does incorporate a lot of uh Fusion Asian dishes um and that is because of the you know the family business uh my my mom's a cook I cook my sister Cooks my brother cooks uh second beef dish was something that I've tried out I consider my

self a Texan we love be it's a dish that my mom and I collaborated together to to put out basically just cubes of real nice tender beef that's been flashed in a walk it's been 6 years since makon beastro opened and will and his mom still love working [Music] together I admire her great the courage it takes just to make that journey and to just stick with us no matter thick and thin she's my hero she really is my [Music] hero [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Appla

use] [Music] [Applause] [Music] using food to bring younger Generations closer to their Heritage happens in families all across America and it's happening here at habesha with a husband and wife team who's using their restaurant to bring their daughters closer to their Ethiopian Roots we want more than anything else people to be familiar with not just Ethiopian food but Ethiopian culture my name is y pantu this is my wife Sal we ran Ethiopian restaurant called habasha andoun when it opened in 20

13 habasha was the second Ethiopian restaurant in Austin people stay coming in here we give them the food they said where's the fork your hands Ethiopian food is eaten within jira a fermented flatbread made with te a gluten-free grain you'll see a family dining and everyone is on their phone eating and really not enjoying the the the event cannot do that eat the open restaurant you have to use your hands you can't both of them that emphasis on family is everywhere at habasha from the Ethiopian a

rt and decor to ydney and salam's daughters who can often be found studying at the restaurant I think I was like around 4 years old when we opened so like this is like my second home Salam and yidi were born and raised in different parts of Ethiopia in the '90s they left Africa to attend college here in the United States gidney immigrating to Texas Salam to Maryland where her family owned an Ethiopian restaurant a chance meeting bringing them together my dad was visiting a friend dining at her f

amily restaurant and she happened to be the waitress and uh he overheard a music playing and uh asked her hey where could I get the CD and she was nice enough to to grab the CD and hand it to him but you 's dad was thinking about more than music when he got home he immediately gave his son a call and he said hey just uh call her and thank her for me when he called me I was like I give it to your dad not for you and then he kept calling me I was like okay I think he's not going to give up my dad

was uh one who hook me up to they dated long distance before Salam moved to T Texas the couple marrying in 2003 their daughters eel and AEL are now teenagers I feel we've always been around food my mom's always cooking for me I love her pancakes she makes the best pancakes Salam left the restaurant industry to focus on parenting but yenney knew his wife's heart was in cooking professionally what I saw on her was the passion to own her own business I really want a open restaurant and and I love t

he customer service and cooking in 2012 ydney and Salam finding the perfect location for their restaurant Austin is a a very unique town in that there is people from all walks of life and I think part of the reason that we are successful is because of that diversity habish menu honors their Ethiopian Heritage with many vegetarian dishes from stewed yellow split peas to brazed collard greens they also serve more than a dozen dishes with beef Texas is uh has a lot of people that loves meat so we h

ave a bigger selection of meat as well and I think my favorite dish and that is the kfo or the steak tartar when it's done right that's probably the best dish in the world there's a ground beef and mixed with butter and spices when the pandemic hit habish is popular pop it helped save them from closure and I said okay this is it I I think we're going to fell down now and then people they support us they love to be here they send us check they send us cards we have a good good Community the donat

ions from fans kept them afloat until they figured out a to go Plan before coid take out business was only 3 or 4% of our business and overnight we had to do 100% of our business and by Nature Ethiopian food does not take out so we have to figure out a way to package the food to market the food after laying off most employees the couple had to work nonstop as the Togo business began ramping up Eel and AEL pitched in to support their parents and save their beloved second home I would write down l

ike the orders like the online orders and I would like put them in the kitchen and cleaning washing the dishes cutting the inura like Folding It Boxing up to go orders they did a lot and they're part of the reason why we're still around so I'm sorry I get a little emotional when I talk about them but uh yeah they're they're incredible they're uh just uh a love of my life one of the things that we in still in them is knowing who they are uh where their parents came from and learning the culture l

earning the food Salam is looking forward to a busier future at her dream restaurant I want to grow this business and lot of peoples they never had Ethiopian food they had Chinese food Italian food or hindian food so they don't know about Ethiopian food I'm really proud of her because like she she gets frustrated at times but she doesn't let that like stop her a really big inspiration to me whenever things get hard you just keep going best part working with your partner is the fact that you're t

here for each other to comfort each other when it's down and uh to be there when your partner needs you the best part of it he knows what I can't do he covered the same thing he cannot cook so okay she can handle [Music] it with Austin's welcoming atmosphere it's no surprise that more chefs are putting down routs in this fast growing city it's everything from James Beard award-winning chefs and tetos and even home Cooks the thing that makes a food seem good is different cultures meeting each oth

er and being able to influence each other the fact that anything is possible is what makes Austin such a cool place one thing that Rings true here in Austin no matter your background or culture there's room for everyone at the table New York City is home to so many iconic foods but when the city that never sleeps wakes up for breakfast they want a bagel with a cream cheese shmear piled high with locks there's no other city that makes a bagel like a New York City Bagel I have not had good bagels

in any other city I came out the wound eating bagels it's time to head out of Studio 1A and hit the road for a new kind of culinary Adventure follow me as I taste some of the most iconic Foods around the country and meet the families behind them together we're going to learn how a good meal has the power to connect us to our past our future and each [Music] other if New York's known for anything it's its bagels and we got them all everything Bagels rainbow Bagels pumpkin Bagels croissant bagels

and of course you can't have them without a shmear while the bagel first came from Poland many food historians say it's pairing with salmon and cream cheese originated right here in the Apple in this town few specialty food shops are as beloved and as historic as Russ and Daughters I've been waiting in line probably 15 20 minutes but it's definitely worth it I like the contrast of the flavor it's like a nice little bagel with a with salty locks they about the salmon and cream cheese together lik

e I try to make it at home but it's nothing compared to Red daughters they've been serving premium smoked fish to Hungry New Yorkers and folks from around the world for over 100 years just a few blocks from the store is the Russ and Daughters Cafe hi Al hey how are you welcome to Russell daughters Cafe nice to see you great to have you here thanks for having us this is beautiful thank you Nikki Russ betterman and Josh Russ Tupper are the grandchildren of the original daughters these cousins are

fourth generation owners carrying on their family's culinary Legacy so this is Russ and Daughters this is our great-grandfather Joel Russ who started the business his wife Bella and his three daughters um we Josh and I have the same grandmother an she was the youngest of the three was it unusual at that time for because you usually you see so and so and Sons but to see Russ and Daughters very unusual but I mean honestly if he had had Sons it probably would have been Russ Son Well thank goodness

he did we like to think of him as a feminist but he was a good businessman Joel Russ immigrated from Poland in 1907 and he started just standing on the streets of the Lor e side selling schal Herring out of a barrel and a family could feed itself for two nights with one fish in 1914 he opened his first brick and mortar shop J Russ National appetizing Joel and his wife had three daughters Patty Ida and Anne when they turned 11 each daughter began working with their dad what was their relationship

like with him I because he's your dad but he's also your boss 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 was just trying to survive and make a place for his family and that was his focus and he saw his children as as you know cheap labor the sisters grew up learning all aspects of the business in 1935 Hattie Ida and an 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 to start Russ and Daughters why the Lower East Side after Ellis Island this was the starting off point for the majority of poor Jewish immigrants this is where they land and they got their start and so he was just feeding basic food to other poor 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 lived in ove

rcrowded tenement buildings the conditions having a profound impact on their diets one of the things about lowere East Side Jewish food is that a lot of food wasn't made of at home when you don't have running water or when you don't have electric or gas stoves it's really hard to do very much cooking and so for for women who are responsible for feeding their families they had to get food from push carts from restaurants from bakeries Joel Russ was one of many vendors catering to this new populat

ion I've I've always been curious how did it come about or from what you've heard that somebody thought hey you know here's this round bread we'll put some fish on it but oh by the way before we do let's put some cream cheese some Dairy on it yeah first of all Russ and Daughters is the torch bearer of what's called appetizing and this is a food tradition born here in New York and it's the sister food tradition to delicatess both of which come up through the Jewish kosher dietary rules you have t

o separate fish and dairy from meat so a delicatessa in strictly speaking is for meat the appetizing store is where you go for fish and dairy things like Herring smoked fish when we say bagel and locks most people are you know we're referring to a smoke salmon but the original Bagel locks was not with smoked salmon technically locks or belly locks is salmon cured in salt which preserves fish without Refrigeration there's no smoking involved and it's incredibly salty so it pairs perfectly with Ta

ngy cream cheese but who is the first person to put locks on a bagel so no one really knows how Bagels locks and cream cheese all came together we know that Bagels come from Eastern Europe we know that locks kind of comes basically from Nova Scotia kind of we know that cream cheese is an American food but what we know is that these things come together as part of a compromise between different generations of American Amer Jews Jewish law prohibits cooking with most heat sources on the Sabbath so

the combo of bagels and locks 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 the previous day cooking as one of the country's oldest appetizing stores Russ and Daughters has been serving kosher meals for generations and the weekends are still their busiest days I can't think really of anything that's more New York than locks and bagels I agree I think that this is a food that came up thr

ough the Eastern European Jewish immigrants to New York but now it's transformed and just become New York food it belongs to all New [Music] Yorkers [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] in the United States women own less than 20% of all businesses at the iconic Russ and Daughters co-owner Nikki Russ fetman is building on the legacy of her grandmother and great aunts growing up you you follow in the footsteps of of st

rong women who may not have chosen this but took it on and obviously made it really successful what is it like for you following in the those footsteps it's a tremendous feeling to be now the and great granddaughter Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a good customer of ours her family came from the Lorie side and she once said that before she knew the word feminist when she looked up at the sign Russ and daughter she understood that women could have an impact your family's business Russ and Daughte

rs has survived two world wars ression you here in the shadow of the World Trade Center why has this place been able to not just survive but Thrive I think because in each 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 we saw that you know people were shipping Russ and Daughters all over the country to their loved ones because they couldn't be together and so sending you know bagels and locks and bobka sa

y you know I love you I miss you here let me feed you having a shmear over Zoom oh there was a lot of that okay so you can get smoked fish pretty much everywhere these days but not quite like this the salmon sold at Russ and Daughters is prized for its high fat content from the milder gaspay Nova to the smokier Scottish and this Gourmet fish is all all sliced by hand when you hold it up I mean it's it's almost translucent yeah I think we should show you how we get it that then yeah me and a shar

p utensil what could possibly go wrong it takes up to 6 months of training to master the slicing technique here so Al I hear you have some knife skills well I've been in a fight or two but i' probably nothing like yours yeah so how how long have you been slicing salmon I've been at the store for 20 years wow um so I've been slicing for a while all right so so I watch people slice and I I'm amazed at at how patient cuz it seems like that's part of the the skill the reality is when you know how to

slice it is one of the most relaxing things you can do very Zen very Zen o meditative right the trick is don't look anywhere on the fish you have to really feel the fish be the fish be the fish which is a very difficult concept to train someone um and particularly the first couple slices are don't be upset okay if they don't look great the idea is to make a consistently thick slice you making faces of Me no I'm just watching you not watch the fish all right okay here we go be the fish not looki

ng you should you should look I should you got a sharp knife in your hand Al and you can see that as you change the angle of the knife it changes the thickness yeah right so now that's more than you think that's more than oh my gosh that's a very thick call those chetas chilas yeah chops ah in Spanish I was going to say that sound that sound y did that sound yish to me does the way you cut it affect the taste of it or the texture of it the texture which affects the experience of the salmon it's

almost like you're eating the essence of salmon not salmon it's very delicate it's a very appealing texture and and mouth feel yeah the thinner Josh thanks so much nice meeting you such a pleasure to have you ah smoke them if you got them up next how fresh salmon gets turned into [Music] lunch [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] here [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I'm here at the acne Smoked Fish Factory now there is someth

ing fishy going on in there and you better believe I'm going to find out what it is the folks at acne process smoke and pack 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 smells like New York City yes all right so as you know in any food food plant food safety is of Paramount importance I see you got your boots on here I just happen to be wearing these

[Music] awesome I've walk you through the process of how salmon turns in to smoke salmon Adam caslo is the fourth generation owner of acne smoked fish his great-grandfather Harry Brownstein started selling fish after immigrating from Russia to Brooklyn har he started in the smoke fish business in the early 1900s in 1906 to be exact out of a push card out of a a a hor drwn wagon wow he would go around buying fish from different smokehouses throughout Brooklyn and Queens and had himself the sales

route you know he worked close to 45 years I mean his dream was to open up his own Smokehouse and it took him 45 years to finally achieve that oh Adam now runs a massive smoked fish Empire supplying many of New York City's popular bagel shops from H&H to Essa Bagel Acme also selling to National Grocers like Trader Joe's at the end of the day it's all about the fish we bring in fish from all over the world uhhuh smoked salmon is probably the most popular thing that we make and our salmon come fro

m different places Norway Scotland Chile and Alaska it can take up to 5 days to make smoked salmon every order is made to the buyer tastes from the type of salmon to the curing method the first step cutting a whole fish into fillets who yeah so this is a 12 kilo whole salmon that I caught over here in Long Island Sound no I'm just kidding this is an Atlantic salmon it's farm farm raised we use Atlantic salmon because it has the most fat and fat equals flavor when making smoke smoked salmon right

so what are you cutting out the like the backbone there yeah just is your board uh-huh carving into a fish this size requires expert hands after the fish is filleted it's preserved with salt the fish is then treated with a wet brine or a dry cure okay so let's dry dry cheer some some salmon good first thing we're going to get it onto the wrap okay so see if you can pick up this salmon grab it by the by the the tail okay grab with your other hand and we're going to lay it onto this the the scree

n [Music] okay [Music] perfect great step two we're going to grab a handful of salt so just a thin layer yep right along the top of the dorsal like kind of down the center line I suppose and we'll give it a nice love love T that's it that's it this fish fish is rather large so traditionally we would probably Dr wet R this this fish but for smaller fish the the dry cure lasts about 24 hours okay that's a huge fish right after curing the filets are cold smoked for up to 20 hours this process impar

ts a subtle Smoky flavor let me show you how the smoker works so these are a collection of that wood chip blend that we were talking about earlier there are different ways to smoke fish filets hot smoking results in flaky opaque fillets unlike traditional locks smoked salmon is cold smoked below 85° this helps the fish retain its silky texture and makes it perfect for slicing ready to help me get this bad boy into the OV bet all right all right hey now let's close her up woo shut her down after

the smoker the fish is cooled then packed for shipping what would your great-grandfather say if he could see all of this I think he'd be amazed of how difficult it was for him to achieve his dream now his descendants have been able to build upon that dream and build us into one of the preeminent smokers in the US up next a vegan Deli taking on tradition with plant-based locks and cashew cream cheese oh you don't want to miss [Music] [Applause] [Music] this [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [

Applause] [Music] n [Music] back on the Lower East Side two sisters inspired by their Jewish Heritage are on a mission to make the food they loved growing up in a more sustainable way ladies nice to meet you nice to meet you Bo want to show me around please come on lead away Erica and Sarah kerski are the co-owners of Orchard grocer an entirely vegan market inspired by Classic delicates this is our cashew they want to make the vegan lifestyle easier for all right after college they opened their

first business a shoe store called moo shoes we opened our vegan shoe store 20 years ago how are they they're comfortable about 5 years ago we decided that we were going to update it by adding our vegan grocer basically because it seemed like that's what our customers want um after asking us what our shoes were made of probably where should I go eat was um the second most common question so we decided to create an experience where they could just go eat next door growing up in Queens the sisters

Jewish culture and food were closely linked they had 10 Jewish delies in their neighborhood alone probably every Sunday a tradition in our family dozen bagels um at the bagel store a doesn't always meant 15 I don't know why that was but and with the cream cheese and locks and that was just how we spent our Sundays both sisters became vegan as teenagers 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 vegan lifestyle w

e grew up in a very culturally Jewish households 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 now 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 mainst

ream in 2017 Sarah and Erica saw not just an opportunity to satisfy a growing Market but to pay homage to their Jewish roots we wanted to have a a good sandwich selection that really epitomizes like New York deli food so obviously a bagel and mock was going to be there Orchard grer sells a variety of vegan sandwiches including reubin and tuna melts 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 gives them that feeling of home yeah like we haven't had to give up our Sunday tradition of um bagels and locks to help make their Unique Deli a reality the sisters hired vegan Chef Nora Vargus Nora shares a passion for plant-based Foods 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 uh smoked salmon so how did you was it look like like well the only orange veg

etable out there other than a sweet potato is Carrot we know the texture that we need to go for we know the flavor that we want to go for so we started with the color and then we just kind of built it from there okay so let's get started I'm I'm really fascinated about all right I'm excited so we have prepared what do we have maybe 10 lbs of carrots here for you these are huge these would have been huge carrots seriously yeah like the size of my forearm but you you have you have sliced them very

th on a mandolin yes yeah exactly all right so we're all gloved up and we are going to the next step in this process is to uh apply our rub to our carrots so in here we have a mixture of sugar salt and the rest I can't tell you about oh it's a secret kind of thing so this this would be kind of like the brine that you would use the dry that you would use on fish exactly except it's going on vegetables we got our inspiration for a lot of different components of this recipe from the way that you w

ould actually prepare fish if we were preparing fish and not carrots right coat everything interesting oh no don't smell it don't don't figure out the secret just by smelling it okay now because if I figure it out she's going to have to kill me so I'm just going to start rubbing just smushing everything in there once we get everything coated we would let this sit for 3 to 6 hours probably okay great so I think we've I think we nailed it okay in here another secret ingredient definitely but I can

tell lot of Secrets here at Orchard I'll tell you a little bit okay so it's a combination of olive oil and aquafaba aquafaba yeah are you familiar with that ingredient I don't know you know when you're opening up a c beans and you got to drain them yes the stuff that you drain out that's aquafaba aquafaba Bean water it's Bean Bean Juice yes exactly yeah so I'm going to pour and then you can kind of do the same process that we just squish it all in there okay yeah perfect after we had let our ca

rrots sit for 3 to 6 hours um we toss them in the oven so they bake we like to call it cold smoking just to sound like classy they like the process of making smokes exactly yeah that does look very much like smokes soon and what would a bagel and locks be without the cream cheese this vegan spread is made with raw cashews salt some secret spices and coconut oil all Blended together with soft tofu should we make a bagel sure let's do it [Music] chear this is a really terrific idea you thank you f

or opening my eyes oh thank you so much I appreciate it that was fantastic a great way to finish things up I mean we we've seen the history we gone to the past we were in the present and you have brought us the locks and bagels of the future a bagel with cre cream cheese and smoked salmon is a uniquely American combination born from Jewish roots transformed by local ingredients and carried on by new generations this breakfast tradition has truly stood the test of time when it comes to food in Ne

w York [Music] [Applause] [Music] City in the 1950s 60s and70s blackowned restaurants weren't just places to get a meal several becoming crucial meeting spots for activists at the Forefront of the civil rights movement and the family still operating these restaurants today are committed to honoring their historic legacies it's time to head out of Studio 1A and hit the road for a new kind of culinary Adventure follow me as I taste some of the most iconic Foods around the country and meet the fami

lies behind them together we're going to learn how a good meal has the power to connect us to our p past our future and each [Music] other we're in Harlem the epicenter of Black Culture in the United States now many historians agree the Harlem Renaissance paved the way for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s so in this episode we're traveling across the country to explore three legendary blackowned restaurants for Generations these beloved eateries have been serving up dishes to Histo

ric figures and those fighting for change first up we're heading south to visit an iconic establishment that defied segregation laws New Orleans a city that celebrates food music nightlife and history in The Big Easy you'll find many historic sites that played a vital role in the Civil Rights Movement Like William France Elementary School where 6-year-old Ruby Bridges broke barriers in 1960 or New Zion Baptist Church a hub for activists and May one of the oldest black neighborhoods in America he

re you'll find the only restaurant on the US Civil Rights Trail ducky Chase restaurant definitely is a historical landmark institution here in New Orleans this popular Eed is a Living testament to a woman who changed the face of fine dining in America Chef Leah Chase I'm Stella Chase Reese and I am the President of the corporation here at Dicky chases and I'm Edgar duck chase the fourth and I'm the executive chef here at doie Chase restaurant Stella's grandparents first opened dookie chases as a

pooy shop becoming a full service restaurant in 1941 African-Americans didn't have that place to celebrate to celebrate birthdays to celebrate promotions to celebrate good grades weddings primes so they opened up a place where that could happen but the next Next Generation had a new vision for the eery it was my father Edgar Chase Jr and his wife Leah L chase that continued the Legacy that my grandparents started dookie Chase Jr was an avid jazz musician who promoted some of America's first int

egrated concerts his friendship with all the musicians Ray Charles and Duke Ellington and Sarah vaugh we will hear stories of them after their performance coming here to D at ducky Chase and Leah was determined to bring an elevated dining experience for her black Patriots she wanted the best China she wanted Linens she wanted them to be served the best they could be served because she didn't want our community to be deprived of anything else than any other community had that Community was on the

brink of a revolution years of the making post 1865 in the emancipation Proclamation with the masses of African-American people now free the country was overwhelmed hierarchies needed to be reestablished 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 were further cemented by the Supreme Court case py versus Ferguson which upheld the separate

but equal Doctrine but dookie chases defied those laws welcoming patrons of all Races to DME and discuss political issues facing the black community their willingness and and openness to everyone in the community made them a hub of safety made them a hub of belonging but that openness also made the chase family a Target there were times that we had people throw things in and try to you know destroy the peace but that didn't frighten my parents they continued because they know what they were doi

ng was the correct thing to do by the 1960s dookie chases had become a go-to spot where activists could connect and strategize we had the opportunity to serve many of our civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jesse Jackson Rosa Park thir Marshall the list goes on on and on and then Freedom bus riders they came here my parents realized that until we all learn to enjoy life together and get to that point where social justice would be for everyone that this community or any other community in our

country would not grow and will not be better in the 1970s Leia becoming passionate about promoting black artists her love of art was also celebrated here at dookie chases when she gave African-American artists the opportunity to actually display their art on her wall because at the time they had no place to display their Arts her extraordinary life even becoming the inspiration for Disney's first black princess Tiana it meant a lot for her because she did have some of the kids dress up and com

e here Leah Chase the queen of Creole Cuisine passing away on June 1st 2019 but her spirit and her culinary Traditions are in Vigilant and capable hands this is Leah Chase's kitchen it's set up the same way and we love it like that cuz as you know she's still with us she's still watching us Chef Duke continues to serve Creole Cuisine that's been on the menu for decades from red beans and rice to shrimp clemo and the famous chicken aluki but the restaurant's most popular dish gumbo you think back

to the Civil Rights era when we had leader strategizing in our upstairs dining room we fed them gumbo you think about presidents today President Barack Obama President George Bush came here we always started them with gumbo because my grandmother always believed that her gumbo will solve any problems and we like to say her gumbo changed the course of America gumbo an official state food of Louisiana dookie Chase's version as a little something for everyone not one but two types of sausage some

Louis blue CB what we do here is we take this top shell off we clean it up and we just crack it in half release some of those flavors chicken and shrimp this is really coming out to be a beautiful gumbo the Gumbo's simmering until it's ready to serve I mean if you just smell this the neighborhood's smelling this everybody knows when doie Chase is cooking gumbo today the chase Empire is expanding Chef Duke just opened the family's newest restaurant chapter 4 being a fourth generation africanameri

can restaurant tour is huge many generations now working side by side being around my family all day that's the biggest blessing I'm so grateful that I get to work with all my family and it's such a joy and that Joy best expressed over great food hello family enjoying everything are Eno everything what's the song that ra I'm going down to doie chase to get myself some gumb when the service is right they treat you ni the whole restaurant doie chases is a is a gift to the family that was given by

my great grandparents and so we want to make sure that you know the restaurant sustains that Legacy and all the Traditions Leah Chase said food builds big Bridges if you can eat with someone you can learn from them and when you learn from someone you can make big changes we can change the course of America in this restaurant over Bola gumbo we can talk to each other and relate to each other when we eat [Music] together [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Applause] [

Music] I [Music] [Applause] [Music] a trip to Harlem just wouldn't be complete without a meal here at Sylvia's Restaurant this neighborhood is institution has been serving up soul food since 1962 and what started as a small lunchonette has now become a family Empire beloved by tourists locals and plenty of famous faces the cornbread was sweet it was warm and it just reminded me of home it took me back to my grandmother's cooking so I really enjoyed it what brought me here today was that I was hu

ngry and wanted some good soul food so where do you go in Harlem syvia soul food is the cultural identity marker that really surmises our journey as a people living in America tresse Woods black is the granddaughter of the legendary queen of soul food Sylvia Woods Sylvia grew up in hemway South Carolina where she met her love Herbert Woods when they were 11 and 12 they fell in love picking beans after school but this entrepreneur to be wasn't content with life on the farm my grandmother um she c

ame to New York when she was 16 she knew that this was a place that was more palatable for African-Americans to like really live Sylvia and Herbert were among the estimated 6 million African-Americans who left the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration they had came you know North to escape all of the atrocities that were happening and to really be in control of their lives if you were black you know Harlem was the place to be syia finding work at a diner Johnson's lunchonette which she event

ually purchased from the owner with a loan from her mom Mr Johnson knew that my grandmother would make it and on August 1st 1962 Sylvia's Restaurant was born as the cultural center of Black America Harlem became a crucial site for demonstrations and organizing by leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X according to Professor psyche Williams for the heart of civil rights is America because it wasn't limited to one one area though folks were in the north they still experience poverty and

inequality and voter suppression and homelessness Sylvia made the restaurant a welcoming place for activists she played her role as ensuring that the community leaders had a place to to meet and to commune and to strategize everyone dying that Soviet cpsy Azie Davis Ruby D you know these are actors and actresses that were on the front line by the 1960s the movement had achieved major gains like the historic Brown versus Board of Education and successful boycotts but racial discrimination and pol

ice brutality against black Americans persisted resulting in deadly riots throughout the decade two devastating events Just 4 years apart sparked destructive riots throughout Harlem but Sylvia's was always spared Harlem was on fire and my grandmother kept the restaurant open because the grocery stores were not open nothing was open and you know people couldn't feed their kids and she was in that kitchen making food food so that this community would have something to eat this strong connection wi

th harlemites has continued for decades we have guests that eat with us every single day and sometimes we have people that eat with us multiple times a day coming up I learned the secret to Sylvia's Famous Fried [Music] Chicken [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Applause] [Music] [Music] Sylvia's in Harlem has been serving up sold food since 1962 and this Native New Yorker couldn't wait to get back into their hist

oric dining room oh it's so good to see you it's been way too long missed you I've missed you too but you know what the good thing about Sylvia is is it's like I saw you yesterday it's coming home it's coming home it's coming home the dining room walls showcasing famous faces and political figures along with Treasured Memories this picture is one of my grandmother's favorites this was when Winnie and Nelson Mandela came to New York when he was freed eating here has become a right of passage for

many candidates and there's a young man I don't know what ever happened to this girl you know I think he might have turned out okay I think so after a meal here yeah this is what sent him on his pet that's right it's the it was the chicken it was the chicken but the heart of Sylvia's is Harlem tress and her family have worked hard to stay active in the neighborhood from funding College scholarships for local teens to supporting black lives matter events what is it about this restaurant that keep

s people coming back authenticity authenticity times love Sylvia when you come to Sylvia you know what you're going to get you're going to get some good food that's going to make you feel warm today over a dozen family members help run Sylvia's Empire which includes a catering business and a successful food product line what's it like working with family cuz I know your brother Marcus your baby brother Marcus is there in the kitchen what's that like watching my brother throw 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 grandson it is so good to see you and you're back here you're running the kitchen what what's that like for you I mean knowing that this Legacy your grandmother's had I'm honored I'm honored I still get to cook for people like you and the the community of Harlem so as long as I can do that I'm happy and always honored and blessed you know the amazing thing is food brings peo

ple together you look in that that that dining room everybody's there yes silia used to always say that the first time you come to silia is you're a guest the second time your family according to Marcus Fried Chicken the most beloved men item so did your grandmother teach you how to do this yes she taught me how to fry chicken everything down to the seasoning she would always say you know moisturized chicken and marinate it like you're putting lotion on a baby now I can't get that image out of m

y head exact one secret Chef Marcus first applied a dry rub to marinate the chicken no is that just plain plain flour yeah this is plain flour we add a little coarse black pepper to it uhhuh drop them all in there you just want to give it a little mix eggs again the baby metaphor the baby metaphor like you're tossing the baby after the chicken's coated it gets a gentle Shake then it's into the deep fryer that looks like tender love and care right there see how gentle he's putting it in there put

ting the baby to bed yep they'll let you know when they're ready to wake up what's the best part of working here that every day when I walk in I get to feel like my grandmother's still with me yeah wow like I feel her I I can really feel her presence in this place and it reminds me every time you're feeling a little lazy it's like all right she's watching you better pick up your pick up the face and she treated everybody the same uh celebrity normal person worker dishwasher cook Chef I don't kno

w if I can ever live up to who she was but I'm going to I'm going to try she was an amazing person after about 15 minutes golden Perfection wow that looks perfect this is you're a thigh person oh I remember how good this is that's perfect perfect wow the seasoning it's moist crisp oh your grandmother's smiling right now that's Sylvia's Fried Chicken right there we treated the baby well mhm Marcus this is fantastic it's so great to see you if if you don't mind I'm going to take this piece to go o

h I'm going to pack up a whole bunch of you thank [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] I [Music] [Applause] [Music] w welcome back in Oakland California Lois the pie Queen has been serving up Southern Specialties hospitality and of course fabulous pies since the 1950s but it's more than just a space for delectable food it's a well-known hub for political activists artists musicians and everyday folks to meet mix and collaborate come on down to lowest

the pie Queen get your breakfast on and me green Lois the pie Queen is serving up much more than brunch Staples it's just a great place for locals to come great place for people to connect and it's just awesome that I could come to a place like this and have some soul food my name is Chris Davis and I'm owner of Lois the pie Queen we serve food that warms the soul this family's Roots Run Deep in Northern California Lois Davis Chris's mom began selling homemade pies at her church in the 1940s the

y were an instant hit her husband Roland dubbed her the pie Queen and saw a new business opportunity my dad was a chef at B&G Foods in San Francisco and they combined both of their efforts to open up the restaurant and serve breakfast lunch and dinner in 1953 The Duo opening their Oakland restaurant so my mother ran the restaurant for 4 years and um it started at 4:30 in the morning for her and ended at 11: at night and uh she was a pure perfectionist Lois perfecting recipes she enjoyed growing

up the recipes were my grandmother's recipes my grandmother was from Texas and they have maintained the test of time all of the items that are on the menu were pretty much on the menu when my mom started the restaurant from Key Lime Pie topped with raspberry jam to banana cheesecake Sweet Treats are always popular here but there are plenty of savory Staples that keep customers coming back every morning and there's one dish with a special place in many folks Hearts you might not find salmon croqu

ettes on the menu anywhere in the Bay Area the salmon croquettes are part salmon part mackerel yellow onions salt and pepper Italian breadcrumbs these croats which originated in the South were a meal staple for many black families most black folks couldn't afford crab 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 meal Lois's dishes have brought in celebrities

from Sammy Davis Jr to Zena and sports icon like Reggie Jackson ate here so often they actually named a pork chop special after him so here's my wall of fame and some of the special people that are up here this is Black Panther Party Minister ELD Cleaver all power of the people in the 1960s and70s Lois welcomed members of the newly formed Black Panther Party the restaurant is a short drive from Meritt Community College where activists uie P Newton and Bobby seal first met founding the party in

1966 Chris attended merit with both of them I had Elders Cleaver Angela Davis Bobby seal and hu P Newton 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 U electricity in the restaurant uh when they visited the Black Panthers have a controver verial Legacy the story We tend to hear is one of violence what we don't hear about as much are the various lunch programs and and free breakfast of course th

ey saw 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 era the restaurant became an important Gathering space in the Oakland Community for 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 i

n need it is a place for people to come and uh and get together and try and figure out how to make uh our community and our world a better place today that mission to help others has evolved Chris uses his platform to support local musicians and keep the restaurant Buzzy by bringing in younger Generations I believe that that aspect of music and musicianship is something that is in the epis of the restaurant hey Mr Jackson how are you good I'm doing good babe to see you man good he recently start

ed a music management company for wise men entertainment that he unofficially runs from the tables at Lois it's not an accident or a coincidence that you look around and see a lot of f photographs of you know famous folks there's a lot of people that he supports and I don't mean support just by putting our pictures up he'll cultivate young artists that are looking to get an opportunity to get a platform where they can be seen and [Music] heard would you like hash BRS grits or rice grits of cours

e grits Chris is determined to keep the restaurant in the family his son Cory Jackson has been overseeing the day-to-day at Lois for nearly 5 years working with my dad gave me an understanding of not only the hard work my grandmother put forward and how much my dad is trying to fill those shoes and now I'm trying to fill his Cory hoping his sons will share the passion for the family business they can't stay away they have a job right now they fold silverware it's great to see my kids and their p

apa Chris bond in those times Chris thinks Lois would be in 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 to create a place that was a home away from home and a place that serve food that warms the [Music] soul cheesecake [Music] cheesec as you might imagine keeping a restaurant running for decades is no easy feat especially in the face of adversity but with delicious di

shes and unwavering Hospitality these historic hotspots have nourished Generations fighting for social change these places now stand as symbols of resilience inspiring and feeding a new generation of community leaders there are dozens of chinatowns 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 gentrifi

cation and all sorts of problems from the pandemic it's no wonder that all these chinatowns are rapidly changing