line:85% position:33% size:70% >> FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S line:85% position:44% size:78% MONTH, KENTUCKY TO THE WORLD IS line:85% position:24% size:58% TEAMING UP WITH THE LEE line:85% position:25% size:60% INITIATIVE FOR A PROGRAM line:85% position:44% size:78% FEATURING FEMALE CHEFS FROM OUR line:85% position:44% size:78% BOOMING CULINARY ARTS ECOSYSTEM line:85% position:22% size:55% THE LEE INITIATIVE WAS line:85% position:29% size:65% CO-FOUNDED IN 2015 BY CHEF line:85% position:29% size:65% EDWARD LEE AND LINDSAY AND line:85% position:25% size:60% STANDS FOR LET'S EMPOWER line:85% position:31% size:68% EMPLOYMENT WHICH PAIR PAIRS line:85% position:44% size:78% FEMALE CHEFS WITH MENTORS MEANT line:85% position:27% size:63% TO ADVANCE THEIR CAREERS.

line:85% position:36% size:73% BELOVED LOUISVILLIAN AND FOOD line:85% position:31% size:68% NETWORK PERSONALITY DAMARIS line:85% position:27% size:63% PHILLIPS USES HER WIT AND line:85% position:50% size:80% KNOWLEDGE TO PACK A 1-2 PUNCH IN line:85% position:14% size:30% THE KITCHEN.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SHE WILL BE HOSTING A PANEL OF line:85% position:33% size:70% UP AND COMING FIGURES IN THE line:85% position:33% size:70% FOOD AND BEVERAGE COMMUNITY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> SHE HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED line:85% position:44% size:78% MORE THAN A LOT OF PEOPLE DO IN line:85% position:14% size:28% A LIFETIME.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SHE IS AN ALUMNI OF THE FIRST line:85% position:36% size:73% SEASON OF THE LEE INITIATIVE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% CHEF NIKKIA RHODES IS A CULINARY line:85% position:31% size:68% INSTRUCTOR CEECH TEACHING A line:85% position:33% size:70% CURRICULUM SHE DESIGNED IN A line:85% position:29% size:65% CULINARY-- IN A COMMERCIAL line:85% position:40% size:75% KITCHEN THAT SHE ALSO DESIGNED line:85% position:25% size:60% AT IROQUOIS HIGH SCHOOL.

line:85% position:29% size:65% PLEASE WELCOME CHEF NIKKIA line:85% position:12% size:18% RHODES.

line:85% position:21% size:53% [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] line:85% position:31% size:68% NEXT WE HAVE KRISTIN SMITH, line:85% position:36% size:73% KRISTIN SMITH IS A FARMER AND line:85% position:40% size:75% CHEF IN SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% 15 YEARS AGO SHE RECEIVED A CALL line:85% position:44% size:78% FROM HER AGING GRANDFATHER THAT line:85% position:17% size:43% CHANGED HER LIFE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT WAS TIME TO EITHER MOVE HOME line:85% position:50% size:80% AND RUN THE FARM OR HE WAS GOING line:85% position:19% size:48% TO HAVE TO SELL IT.

line:85% position:21% size:53% SMITH RETURNED TO HER line:85% position:36% size:73% APPALACHIAN FARM AND REALIZED line:85% position:50% size:80% SHE LOVES COOKING AS MUCH AS SHE line:85% position:50% size:80% LOVES FARMING AND THUS THE FIRST line:85% position:44% size:78% FARM TO FORK RESTAURANT IN CORB line:85% position:22% size:55% YUN KENTUCKY WAS BORN.

line:85% position:25% size:60% A BRILLIANT STORYTELLER, line:85% position:40% size:75% COLLECTOR OF EXCEPTIONAL HATS, line:85% position:36% size:73% AND CHEF OWNER OF THE WRIGLEY line:85% position:25% size:60% TAP ROOM, KRISTIN SMITH.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:36% size:73% THE FINAL MEMBER OF OUR PANEL line:85% position:36% size:73% TONIGHT IS CHEF SAMANTHA FORE line:85% position:27% size:63% CHEF AND OWNER OF A POPUP line:85% position:33% size:70% OPERATION IN HER HOMETOWN OF line:85% position:20% size:50% LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THEMMERSON COLLEGE AND HARVARD line:85% position:25% size:60% ALUM WAS A WEB DESIGNER.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SHE BEGAN HOSTING HAVE I LANGAN line:85% position:33% size:70% BRUNCHES IN HER HOME AND THE line:85% position:31% size:68% WORD SPREAD QUICKLY AND THE line:85% position:40% size:75% GUEST LIST QUICKLY OUTGREW HER line:85% position:12% size:15% HOUSE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU MAY HAVE SEEN HER TOMATO AND line:85% position:50% size:80% CURRY PIE ON THE MAGAZINE COVER.

line:85% position:19% size:48% SHE SERVES SOUTHERN line:85% position:50% size:80% INTERPRETATIONS OF HAVE I LANGAN line:85% position:12% size:15% FOODS.

line:85% position:25% size:60% SHE LEARNED THESE IN HER line:85% position:17% size:40% FORMATIVE YEARS.

line:85% position:36% size:73% PLEASE WELCOME CHEF SAM FORE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> TONIGHT'S HOST HARDLY NEEDS line:85% position:44% size:78% AN INTRODUCTION, ESPECIALLY NOT line:85% position:11% size:13% HERE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I'M GOING TO GIVE HER ONE ANYWAY line:85% position:36% size:73% AND I'M PRETTY SURE MY MOM IS line:85% position:44% size:78% HERE JUST TO SEE HER BUT THAT'S line:85% position:11% size:13% OKAY.

line:85% position:31% size:68% CHEF DAMARIS PHILLIPS FIRST line:85% position:29% size:65% CAPTURED THE HEARTS OF OUR line:85% position:36% size:73% COUNTRY WHEN SHE COMPETED AND line:85% position:33% size:70% WON THE NINTH SEASON OF FOOD line:85% position:40% size:75% NETWORK STAR, RESULTING IN HER line:85% position:40% size:75% OWN FOOD NETWORK SHOW SOUTHERN line:85% position:33% size:70% AT HEART WHICH RAN FOR ABOUT line:85% position:15% size:33% FIVE SEASONS.

line:85% position:31% size:68% DAMARIS HAS BEEN A TIRELESS line:85% position:40% size:75% ADVOCATE FOR KENTUCKY ON EVERY line:85% position:36% size:73% PLATFORM, NEVER HESITATING TO line:85% position:33% size:70% WAX POETIC ABOUT WHY SHE HAS line:85% position:50% size:80% CHOSEN TO MAINTAIN HER LIFE HERE line:85% position:14% size:30% IN KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THESE DAYS YOU CAN FIND DAMARIS line:85% position:40% size:75% OUT FEEDING LOUISVILLE THROUGH line:85% position:31% size:68% HER BLUEGRASS SUPPER CLUBS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SHE HAS AN ALL YOU CAN EAT PIE line:85% position:17% size:40% POPUP COMING UP.

line:85% position:14% size:28% GO TO THAT.

line:85% position:31% size:68% OR ON HER SECOND HOME, FOOD line:85% position:13% size:20% NETWORK.

line:85% position:31% size:68% PLEASE WELCOME CHEF DAMARIS line:85% position:13% size:23% PHILLIPS.

line:85% position:21% size:53% [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] line:85% position:15% size:33% >> THANK YOU.

line:85% position:18% size:45% >> HELLO EVERYONE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THE LIGHTS ARE SO BRIGHT, Y'ALL.

line:85% position:19% size:48% >> HEY, HEY, TRULY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> SO WE ARE GOING TO START BY line:85% position:44% size:78% TAKING A BIG DEEP BREATH AND WE line:85% position:27% size:63% HOPE EVERYONE TO TAKE ONE line:85% position:13% size:23% TOGETHER.

line:85% position:19% size:48% THIS IS GOING TO BE line:85% position:33% size:70% CONVERSATION, A CONVERSATION line:85% position:50% size:80% ABOUT THE PLACE THAT WE ALL LOVE line:85% position:50% size:80% SO DEEPLY AND SO WE ARE GOING TO line:85% position:15% size:35% TAKE A MINUTE.

line:85% position:19% size:48% EVERYBODY TOGETHER.

line:85% position:36% size:73% LET'S BREATHE IN...

THERE, WE line:85% position:36% size:73% ARE JUST GOING TO TALK Y'ALL.

line:85% position:29% size:65% WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT line:85% position:13% size:23% KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT line:85% position:44% size:78% KENTUCKY FOR US THE WAY THAT WE line:85% position:36% size:73% EXPRESS OURSELVES OUR LOVE OF line:85% position:50% size:80% KENTUCKY AND OUR LIKE PURPOSE IN line:85% position:40% size:75% KENTUCKY THROUGH FOOD, BUT NOT line:85% position:44% size:78% EVERYBODY OUT THERE IS IN FOOD.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND SO WE WANTED TO BE ABLE TO line:85% position:36% size:73% TELL YOU HOW KENTUCKY AND HOW line:85% position:40% size:75% THE FOOD OF KENTUCKY, WHY IT'S line:85% position:36% size:73% SO IMPORTANT TO US AND HOW IT line:85% position:40% size:75% CONNECTS ALL OF US, BECAUSE IT line:85% position:11% size:13% DOES.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I MEAN MOST OF US ARE EATING line:85% position:13% size:25% EVERY DAY.

line:85% position:15% size:35% >> WE ALL EAT.

line:85% position:14% size:28% AM I RIGHT?

line:85% position:17% size:40% >> WE GOTTA EAT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> SO I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR line:85% position:24% size:58% FAVORITE KENTUCKY DISH.

line:85% position:20% size:50% >> I'M STICKING WITH line:85% position:14% size:30% BENEDICTINE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> BENEDICTINE IS YOUR FAVORITE?

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> YEAH, NOT AS A SANDWICH SO.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I USE IT IN ALL SORTS OF FORMS, line:85% position:13% size:23% AS A DIP.

line:85% position:18% size:45% I LIKE VEGETABLES.

line:85% position:24% size:58% I NEED SOMETHING GREEN.

line:85% position:33% size:70% WHEN YOU WORK IN THE KITCHEN line:85% position:33% size:70% ENOUGH, YOU DON'T GET ENOUGH line:85% position:33% size:70% CONVENIENT TAX BILLS IN YOUR line:85% position:44% size:78% DIET-- VEGETABLES IN YOUR DIET.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I FIND MYSELF CRAVING ANYTHING line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT IS A VEGETABLE BY ABOUT line:85% position:13% size:25% HOUR FOUR.

line:85% position:15% size:33% >> VEGETABLE.

line:85% position:14% size:28% >> KRISTIN.

line:85% position:15% size:35% >> CORN BREAD.

line:85% position:13% size:20% COME ON.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT GOES WITH EVERY MEAL AND FOR line:85% position:44% size:78% US, GROWING UP, IT WAS DESSERT.

line:85% position:24% size:58% >> CORN BREAD AND MILK.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> CORN BREAD WITH, REACH BEHIND line:85% position:29% size:65% TO THE TOUCH, YOU GRAB THE line:85% position:29% size:65% SORGHUM, YOU PUT IT ON THE line:85% position:40% size:75% LITTLE PLATE AND YOU TAKE YOUR line:85% position:36% size:73% BUTTER AND EVERYBODY MIXED IT line:85% position:14% size:28% JUST RIGHT.

line:85% position:16% size:38% >> WITH A FORK.

line:85% position:15% size:35% >> ABSOLUTELY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> THAT IS THE BEST MEAL RIGHT line:85% position:12% size:15% THERE.

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> CHOCOLATE AND BOURBON.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> DOES CHOCOLATE COUNT AS A line:85% position:36% size:73% FOOD BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE MY line:85% position:17% size:40% ANSWER, I GUESS.

line:85% position:29% size:65% I MEAN WE ARE IN KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> THAT'S MY FAVORITE KENTUCKY line:85% position:12% size:15% THING.

line:85% position:14% size:28% >> BOURBON?

line:85% position:18% size:45% >> I LOVE BOURBON.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> YOU DON'T LIKE THE HORSES?

line:85% position:17% size:43% >> THE BLUEGRASS.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOOD.

line:85% position:17% size:40% >> YEAH, I KNOW.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IF IF YOU ARE SITTING OUT THERE line:85% position:36% size:73% AND WE HOPE YOU HAVE A MEMORY line:85% position:33% size:70% AROUND FOOD AND FOR THE MOST line:85% position:27% size:63% PART, THAT FOOD MEMORY IS line:85% position:44% size:78% CONNECTING BECAUSE I THINK THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% AT LEAST FOR ME IN KENTUCKY, THE line:85% position:40% size:75% REASON I COOK AND THE REASON I line:85% position:36% size:73% HAVE ALWAYS COOKED IS BECAUSE line:85% position:24% size:58% I'M SEARCHING FOR THOSE line:85% position:36% size:73% CONNECTIONS AND SO I THINK IT line:85% position:36% size:73% WAS NATURAL FOR ME TO GO INTO line:85% position:44% size:78% COOKING BECAUSE I LIKE FROM ONE line:85% position:18% size:45% OF THESE FAMILIES.

line:85% position:33% size:70% YOU ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT line:85% position:40% size:75% FOOD WHEN YOU GET TOGETHER AND line:85% position:33% size:70% IT'S AWKWARD TO TALK TO YOUR line:85% position:27% size:63% RELATIVES A LOT OF TIMES.

line:85% position:31% size:68% SO YOU'RE LIKE WHAT ARE YOU line:85% position:18% size:45% GOING TO EAT NEXT?

line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY.

line:85% position:16% size:38% WHAT ABOUT PIE?

line:85% position:36% size:73% WHEN YOUR FOLKS CALL, DO THEY line:85% position:40% size:75% ASK YOU WHAT THEY ATE THAT DAY line:85% position:36% size:73% OR IS THAT LIKE A SOUTH ASIAN line:85% position:12% size:15% THING.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> IT'S SO CUTE THAT YOU THINK line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT I FAULK TO MY HOLM-- TALK line:85% position:20% size:50% TO MY MOM EVERY DAY.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SHE IS DEFINITELY THE TYPE OF line:85% position:36% size:73% MOM, IF YOU ARE NOT TOO BUSY, line:85% position:16% size:38% GIVE ME A RING.

line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT I GUESS YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT line:85% position:17% size:43% MOTHER THAN THAT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> OH YEAH, I MOVED OUT OF THE line:85% position:50% size:80% HOUSE WHAT 18 YEARS AGO AND I'VE line:85% position:50% size:80% TALKED TO MY MOTHER EVERY SINGLE line:85% position:13% size:25% DAY SINCE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND IT'S NOT ME CALLING HER.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:14% size:30% I MEAN I DO.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SHE'S THE FUNNIEST WOMAN I KNOW, line:85% position:31% size:68% BUT SHE'S GOT QUESTIONS AND line:85% position:31% size:68% APPARENT LIP I HAVE ALL THE line:85% position:40% size:75% ANSWER-- APPARENTLY I HAVE ALL line:85% position:14% size:30% THE ANSWERS.

line:85% position:14% size:30% >> YOUR MOM?

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> YEAH, WE TALK ALMOST EVERY line:85% position:14% size:28% SINGLE DAY.

line:85% position:24% size:58% MAIN MAINLY ABOUT FOOD.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> MY MOM IS MY INSPIRATION FOR line:85% position:50% size:80% FOOD AND WHY I'M INVOLVED IN IT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SHE WOULD TELL YOU MY BUTT GOT line:85% position:29% size:65% CHANGED ON STAINLESS STEEL line:85% position:12% size:18% TABLES.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SHE MANAGED A HOMELESS SHELTER line:85% position:31% size:68% KITCHEN FOR ABOUT 13 YEARS.

line:85% position:15% size:35% >> INCREDIBLE.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:29% size:65% SHE'S OUT THERE SOMEWHERE.

line:85% position:13% size:25% >> HI MOM.

line:85% position:13% size:25% >> HI MOM.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> SO NIKKIA, WITH THAT, WHY line:85% position:40% size:75% DON'T YOU TELL BUS YOUR STORY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% TELL-- TELL US ABOUT YOUR STORY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% TELL US HOW YOU CAME INTO FOOD line:85% position:33% size:70% AND HOW YOU ENDED UP ON THIS line:85% position:12% size:15% STAGE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> I WAS LITERALLY BORN INTO IT.

line:85% position:33% size:70% MY MOM RAN THE VOLUNTEERS OF line:85% position:25% size:60% AMERICA HOMELESS SHELTER line:85% position:22% size:55% KITCHENS FOR 13 YEARS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH ME THERE line:85% position:29% size:65% AND AS SOON AS I WAS BORN, line:85% position:19% size:48% THAT'S WHERE I WAS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IF THERE WASN'T SCHOOL THAT DAY line:85% position:33% size:70% OR DIDN'T FEEL LIKE GOING TO line:85% position:50% size:80% SCHOOL, IF I PLAYED HOOKY, I WAS line:85% position:20% size:50% AT WORK WITH MY MOM.

line:85% position:21% size:53% SHE WAS A SINGLE MOM.

line:85% position:29% size:65% I WOULD BE SLIPING THROUGH line:85% position:33% size:70% COOKBOOKS, ORGANIZING CANNED line:85% position:12% size:15% GOODS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT'S WHERE IT STARTED FOR ME.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AND THEN MAN, HOW DID I GET line:85% position:11% size:13% HERE?

line:85% position:25% size:60% >> HOW DID YOU GET HERE?

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> I GOT HERE, I GUESS I CAN line:85% position:16% size:38% WORK BACKWARDS.

line:85% position:25% size:60% I GOT HERE BECAUSE OF MY line:85% position:25% size:60% INVOLVEMENT WITH THE LEE line:85% position:44% size:78% INITIATIVE, THAT PROGRAM HELPED line:85% position:36% size:73% ME TO GET EXPOSURE AND GET MY line:85% position:50% size:80% STORY OUT THERE AND THEY GAVE ME line:85% position:50% size:80% A PLATFORM TO JUST TALK MY TALK.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AND SO I STARTED WITH THAT.

line:85% position:21% size:53% THAT'S HOW I GOT HERE line:85% position:36% size:73% SPECIFICALLY TONIGHT BUT I'VE line:85% position:50% size:80% ALSO HAD INVOLVEMENT IN CULINARY line:85% position:12% size:18% SCHOOL.

line:85% position:44% size:78% ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE I FEEL LIKE line:85% position:20% size:50% THERE ARE TWO SIDES.

line:85% position:31% size:68% EITHER YOU WENT TO CULINARY line:85% position:31% size:68% SCHOOL OR YOU DID NOT GO TO line:85% position:17% size:40% CULINARY SCHOOL.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I AM ONE OF THE ONES THAT DID.

line:85% position:40% size:75% MY HIGH SCHOOL THIS A CULINARY line:85% position:29% size:65% PROGRAM AND I WENT TO THAT line:85% position:24% size:58% PROGRAM ALL FOUR YEARS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% GRADUATE PRODUCED THAT PROGRAM line:85% position:29% size:65% AND FINISHED MY PROGRAM AT line:85% position:40% size:75% J.C.T.C.

AND THEN WENT TO WORK line:85% position:40% size:75% WITH CHEF LEE AND GOT INTO THE line:85% position:44% size:78% LEE INITIATIVE AND IT JUST TOOK line:85% position:11% size:10% OFF.

line:85% position:15% size:33% UNEXPECTEDLY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% VERY SURPRISINGLY AND QUICKLY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> CRISES TIN, WHAT ABOUT YOU?

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> FOOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PART.

line:85% position:40% size:75% LIKE MOM MENTIONED, ABOUT MOM, line:85% position:19% size:48% WE TALK ABOUT FOOD.

line:85% position:40% size:75% OFTEN OUR DINNERS, WE COOK FOR line:85% position:40% size:75% HOURS, WE SIT AROUND THE TABLE line:85% position:50% size:80% AND WE TALK FAMILY POLITICS, YOU line:85% position:36% size:73% KNOW, THAT'S JUST WHAT WE DO.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I LIVE IN CORBIN WILLY COUNTY line:85% position:44% size:78% AREA AND IT'S SLIGHTLY ISOLATED line:85% position:33% size:70% SOMETIMES SO WE HAVE A LARGE line:85% position:22% size:55% PANTRY WE GO SHOPPING.

line:85% position:36% size:73% YOU CAN SHOP FOR A LOT AND WE line:85% position:33% size:70% COOK A LOT AND WE RAISED OUR line:85% position:29% size:65% BEEF AND PORK ALL MY LIFE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% MY FAMILY USUALLY PUT UP 500 line:85% position:50% size:80% CANS UP IN THE ROOT CELLAR EVERY line:85% position:11% size:13% YEAR.

line:85% position:24% size:58% THAT'S JUST WHAT WE DO.

line:85% position:33% size:70% SO OUR WHOLE LIFE SURROUNDED line:85% position:33% size:70% AROUND FOOD, WHETHER WE WERE line:85% position:29% size:65% CULTIVATING IT, EATING IT, line:85% position:50% size:80% PLANNING, YOU KNOW, PLANNING IT, line:85% position:13% size:23% WHATEVER.

line:85% position:33% size:70% BUT SO FOOD, YOU KNOW,IT WAS line:85% position:15% size:33% JUST NATURAL.

line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT I ALWAYS KIND OF FELT-- FOOD line:85% position:36% size:73% NETWORK REALLY STARTED TAKING line:85% position:36% size:73% OFF AROUND LATE 1900-- 1990s.

line:85% position:12% size:15% RIGHT?

line:85% position:12% size:15% 1900s?

line:85% position:20% size:50% >> YOU'RE NOT WRONG.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:36% size:73% >> AND LIKE MANY, I WAS JUST, line:85% position:20% size:50% YOU KNOW, ENAMOURED.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND SO I COULDN'T KEEP MY EYES line:85% position:22% size:55% OFF, YOU KNOW, THE TV.

line:85% position:36% size:73% AND I JUST THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, line:85% position:50% size:80% LET'S GO DO THIS IN THE KITCHEN.

line:85% position:29% size:65% AND I JUST WANTED TO GO TO line:85% position:40% size:75% CULINARY SCHOOL AND MY PARENTS line:85% position:50% size:80% SAID YOU ARE GOING TO BE ON YOUR line:85% position:25% size:60% FEET FOR 12 HOURS A DAY.

line:85% position:29% size:65% I'M LIKE YEAH, THAT SOUNDS line:85% position:13% size:23% TERRIBLE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SO I RAN FROM IT QUITE A BIT.

line:85% position:17% size:43% I MOVED TO CHINA.

line:85% position:27% size:63% AND THE WAY I LEARNED THE line:85% position:27% size:63% CULTURE WAS THROUGH FOOD.

line:85% position:24% size:58% THAT WAS NATURAL TO ME.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND SO I JUST FELT CONNECTED line:85% position:36% size:73% WHEN I CAME BACK HOME, I JUST line:85% position:33% size:70% TOOK OVER THE FAMILY FARM AS line:85% position:44% size:78% MENTIONED AND I STARTED SELLING line:85% position:33% size:70% BEEF AND PORK AT THE FARMERS line:85% position:36% size:73% MARKET AND I WANTED PEOPLE TO line:85% position:40% size:75% TASTE THE DIFFERENCE THAN WHAT line:85% position:36% size:73% WAS BEING BOUGHT AT I GL-- AT line:85% position:11% size:10% IGA.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I STARTED COOKING TACOS AND line:85% position:40% size:75% WHATEVER WE HAD AND THERE WERE line:85% position:18% size:45% IMMEDIATELY LINES.

line:85% position:22% size:55% I SAID OKAY, LET'S GO.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I WALKED DOWN THE IGA AISLE line:85% position:36% size:73% AND SOME LITTLE GIRL SAID ARE line:85% position:18% size:45% YOU THE TACO LADY?

line:85% position:29% size:65% I SAID WELL, I'VE MADE IT.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:18% size:45% I'M THE TACO LADY.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:29% size:65% >> DO YOU HAVE A NICKNAME.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> I MEAN A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST line:85% position:18% size:45% CALL ME TOOK-TOOK.

line:85% position:17% size:43% >> TELL BUS THAT.

line:85% position:22% size:55% -- TELL US ABOUT THAT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> I'M TOTALLY FROM THE OTHER line:85% position:21% size:53% SIDE OF THE INDUSTRY.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I WAS WORKING IN RESTAURANT line:85% position:13% size:25% MARKETING.

line:85% position:22% size:55% I WENT TO GRAD SCHOOL.

line:85% position:22% size:55% I COULDN'T FIND A JOB.

line:85% position:25% size:60% I STILL HAD TO PAY RENT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO I DECIDED THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M line:85% position:24% size:58% GOING TO MAKE WEBSITES.

line:85% position:50% size:80% DID NOT KNOW,000 MAKE WEBSITES-- line:85% position:36% size:73% DATED SOMEONE WHO KNEW HOW TO line:85% position:44% size:78% MAKE WEBSITES, MADE THE MOST OF line:85% position:11% size:8% IT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I'M VERY GOOD AT THINKING ON MY line:85% position:11% size:13% FEET.

line:85% position:40% size:75% MY HUSBAND AND I, NOW HUSBAND, line:85% position:50% size:80% STARTED WORKING ON A WEBSITE FOR line:85% position:36% size:73% SOME BOSTON CHEFS AND I WOULD line:85% position:40% size:75% TAKE THEM FOOD EVERY ONCE IN A line:85% position:12% size:15% WHILE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% FOOD WAS MY WAY OF CONNECTING TO line:85% position:31% size:68% PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY AS A SRI line:85% position:44% size:78% LANKAN IN AMERICA, YOU DON'T GO line:85% position:36% size:73% DOWN THE STREET AND SEE A SRI line:85% position:50% size:80% LANKAN JOINT ON EVERY CORNER, AS line:85% position:27% size:63% AWESOME AS THAT WOULD BE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IT'S NOT A VERY WELL KNOWN FOOD.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO FOR PEOPLE TO GET TO KNOW ME, line:85% position:33% size:70% THEY HAVE TO KNOW WHAT I AM.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I'M SRI LANKAN AND SOUTHERN.

line:85% position:24% size:58% I WOULD THROW THESE BIG line:85% position:13% size:23% BRUNCHES.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I INVITED NINE PEOPLE OVER AND line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE WERE ROUGHLY 40 PEOPLE AT line:85% position:13% size:20% MY DOOR.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I SAID I'M GOING TO GET ARRESTED line:85% position:40% size:75% OR SOMETHING WEIRD IS GOING TO line:85% position:12% size:18% HAPPEN.

line:85% position:25% size:60% SO WE NEED TO STOP THIS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I WAS LAMENTING MY CASE TO SOME line:85% position:44% size:78% FRIENDS OF MINE WHO OWNED A BAR line:85% position:33% size:70% AND THEY SAID WE CAN'T GET A line:85% position:40% size:75% FOOD TRUCK IN HERE TO SAVE OUR line:85% position:12% size:15% LIVES.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I SAID YOU HAVE A CAPTIVE DRUNK line:85% position:13% size:23% AUDIENCE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% WHY DO THEY NOT WANT TO MAKE line:85% position:12% size:15% MONEY?

line:85% position:44% size:78% I THOUGHT OKAY, WE ARE GOING TO line:85% position:15% size:33% DO THIS ONCE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I'LL DO THIS ONCE SO I CAN SAY line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT I DID IT AND I SPENT $572 line:85% position:40% size:75% ON TENTS AND LIGHTS AND TABLES line:85% position:31% size:68% AND FOOD AND LICENSES AND A line:85% position:31% size:68% REALLY WEIRD CLASS THAT WAS line:85% position:29% size:65% EIGHT HOURS LONG ABOUT THE line:85% position:25% size:60% SAFETY IN FOOD THAT JUST line:85% position:27% size:63% HORRIFIES ME TO THIS DAY.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:44% size:78% AND WE SOLD OUT THE FIRST NIGHT line:85% position:40% size:75% IN FOUR HOURS AND I SAID OKAY.

line:85% position:16% size:38% THAT'S A FLUKE.

line:85% position:29% size:65% ONLY GOING TO HAPPEN ONCE.

line:85% position:24% size:58% IT HAS BEEN FOUR YEARS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I HAVE GOTTEN-- I MEAN CHEVIED line:85% position:44% size:78% WARD HAS-- EF EDWARD HAS HELPED line:85% position:11% size:8% ME.

line:85% position:36% size:73% HE WAS THE FIRST PLACE THAT I line:85% position:36% size:73% GOT TO DO A POPUP THAT WASN'T line:85% position:13% size:25% LEXINGTON.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY TOOK ME line:85% position:24% size:58% SERIOUSLY BUT THEY DID.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I'VE GOT N TO COOK FOR A LOT OF line:85% position:12% size:18% PEOPLE.

line:85% position:29% size:65% I'VE GOTTEN TO GO A LOT OF line:85% position:31% size:68% PLACES TO COOK AND FOR SOME line:85% position:40% size:75% REASON THIS IS THE FIRST THING line:85% position:17% size:43% THAT HAS CLICKED.

line:85% position:50% size:80% HOSPITALITY IS IN MY BLOOD AND I line:85% position:50% size:80% LOVE TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE OVER line:85% position:11% size:13% FOOD.

line:85% position:40% size:75% EVENTUALLY IT JUST TURNED INTO line:85% position:15% size:35% THE DREAM JOB.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:40% size:75% >> SO I STARTED-- I WAS ALWAYS line:85% position:16% size:38% IN RESTAURANTS.

line:85% position:33% size:70% IN HIGH SCHOOL I WORKED IN A line:85% position:14% size:28% LAUNDROMAT.

line:85% position:24% size:58% I KNOW, VERY GLAMOROUS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT WAS ALSO A DRY CLEANER SO IT line:85% position:25% size:60% WAS A LITTLE HIGHER END.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I DIDN'T GET TO RUN ANY OF THE line:85% position:27% size:63% THINGS YOU COULD MESS UP.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I JUST FOLDED PEOPLE'S LAUNDRY.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AS SOON AS I GRADUATED HIGH line:85% position:29% size:65% SCHOOL I STARTED AT LYNN'S line:85% position:15% size:35% PARADISE CAFE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% EVERYBODY HAS PROBABLY WORKED line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE AT SOME POINT OR HAS BEEN line:85% position:12% size:15% THERE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT I STARTED line:85% position:50% size:80% WORKING AT HIGHLAND COFFEE AND I line:85% position:36% size:73% WORKED IN COFFEE AND BAKERIES line:85% position:31% size:68% AND RESTAURANTS ALL WHILE I line:85% position:44% size:78% TRIED TO GO TO COLLEGE FOR WHAT line:85% position:31% size:68% I THOUGHT WAS GOING TO BE A line:85% position:31% size:68% GROWN-UP JOB AND I MOVED TO line:85% position:36% size:73% SEATTLE AND I WAS THERE AND I line:85% position:33% size:70% HAD NO FRIENDS AND LIVING IN line:85% position:40% size:75% KENTUCKY LIKE WHEN YOU'RE FROM line:85% position:36% size:73% LOUISVILLE AND YOU HAVE A BIG line:85% position:25% size:60% FAMILY, YOU ARE NEVER BY line:85% position:13% size:23% YOURSELF.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I LITERALLY HAVE NEVER BEEN line:85% position:40% size:75% ALONE UNTIL I MOVED TO SEATTLE line:85% position:40% size:75% AND I WOULD GET UP AND I WOULD line:85% position:40% size:75% GO TO WORK AND WHEN I FINISHED line:85% position:40% size:75% WORKING, BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE line:85% position:40% size:75% ANY FRIENDS, I WOULD GO TO THE line:85% position:24% size:58% LIBRARY AND WOULD I GET line:85% position:27% size:63% COOKBOOKS AND I WOULD GET line:85% position:40% size:75% RECIPES AND THEN I WOULD GO TO line:85% position:40% size:75% THE MARKET AND I WOULD BUY ALL line:85% position:31% size:68% THE STUFF FOR FROM THE PIKE line:85% position:36% size:73% MARKET AND COOK AND WATCH THE line:85% position:15% size:33% FOOD NETWORK.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, I THINK I line:85% position:15% size:35% COULD DO THAT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO I STARTED TELLING PEOPLE LIKE line:85% position:29% size:65% I THINK I'M GOING TO GO TO line:85% position:50% size:80% CULINARY SCHOOL AND I'M GOING TO line:85% position:36% size:73% BE ON THE FOOD NETWORK, WHICH line:85% position:50% size:80% EVERYONE, RIGHTFULLY SO, THOUGHT line:85% position:22% size:55% I WAS INSANE ACTUALLY.

line:85% position:36% size:73% AND SO-- AND IT IS-- LIKE YOU line:85% position:40% size:75% DON'T GET TO JUST-- ESPECIALLY line:85% position:24% size:58% LIKE A LITTLE GIRL FROM line:85% position:25% size:60% KENTUCKY, IT WAS JUST SO line:85% position:33% size:70% IMPOSSIBLE THAT IT HAPPENED.

line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT I MOVED HOME AND I STARTED line:85% position:44% size:78% CULINARY SCHOOL, JCTC AND I PUT line:85% position:50% size:80% THE CHEF COAT ON THE FIRST TIME, line:85% position:44% size:78% I FINALLY FELT LIKE IT CLICKED.

line:85% position:27% size:63% I FELT LIKE I HAD FINALLY line:85% position:44% size:78% FIGURED OUT WHAT I WANTED TO BE line:85% position:16% size:38% WHEN I GREW UP.

line:85% position:27% size:63% AND SO I STARTED COOKING.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I COOKED AND I COOKED AND I line:85% position:40% size:75% BAKED AND I WORKED IN BAKERIES line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I WORKED IN RESTAURANTS AND line:85% position:36% size:73% I TOOK ANY INTERNSHIP I COULD line:85% position:11% size:13% TAKE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% DURING THE SUMMERS, I TRAVELED line:85% position:44% size:78% ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND WORKED line:85% position:33% size:70% FOR FREE IN EVERY RESTAURANT line:85% position:17% size:43% THAT I WANTED TO.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND AT SOME POINT I JUST FORGOT line:85% position:31% size:68% THAT I HAD STARTED WITH THE line:85% position:29% size:65% INTENTION OF BEING ON FOOD line:85% position:13% size:20% NETWORK.

line:85% position:25% size:60% AND BECAUSE I WAS HAPPY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I WAS TEACHING AT THE CULINARY line:85% position:12% size:18% SCHOOL.

line:85% position:20% size:50% I HAD A GROWNUP JOB.

line:85% position:16% size:38% I HAD BENEFITS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I HAD ADULT BRACES BECAUSE I WAS line:85% position:44% size:78% GOING TO BE ON THE FOOD NETWORK line:85% position:27% size:63% SO I NEEDED ADULT BRACES.

line:85% position:31% size:68% ANYBODY WHO KNEW ME AT THAT line:85% position:36% size:73% TIME, IT WAS A VERY, VERY DRY line:85% position:31% size:68% SPELL FOR DATING, VERY DRY.

line:85% position:36% size:73% BUT THEN ONE DAY THEY CALLED.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THE CASTING PEOPLE CALLED FROM line:85% position:44% size:78% FOOD NETWORK AND ASKED ME TO GO line:85% position:17% size:40% ON FOOD NETWORK.

line:85% position:15% size:33% IT WAS GREAT.

line:85% position:16% size:38% IT WAS SO HARD.

line:85% position:33% size:70% TERRIFYING AND YOU FEEL SELF line:85% position:40% size:75% CONSCIOUS AND YOU FEEL NERVOUS line:85% position:27% size:63% AND YOU FEEL LIKE ALL THE line:85% position:44% size:78% INSECURITIES THAT YOU HAVE EVER line:85% position:29% size:65% HAD ARE NOW ON DISPLAY FOR line:85% position:13% size:25% EVERYBODY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND YOU ARE CONFRONTING WITH-- line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU ARE CONFRONTED WITH THEM AM line:85% position:21% size:53% I A GOOD ENOUGH CHEF.

line:85% position:31% size:68% HAVE I DONE IT LONG ENOUGH?

line:85% position:19% size:48% AM I THE REAL DEAL?

line:85% position:25% size:60% AM I INTERESTING ENOUGH?

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND IT WAS REALLY, REALLY HARD.

line:85% position:44% size:78% BUT WHAT KEPT ME ABLE TO-- WHAT line:85% position:44% size:78% REALLY KEPT ME ABLE TO NOT JUST line:85% position:44% size:78% LIKE CRY ON NATIONAL TELEVISION line:85% position:44% size:78% EVERY WEEK, I CRIED A COUPLE OF line:85% position:12% size:15% TIMES.

line:85% position:22% size:55% >> THAT'S GOOD FOR THE line:85% position:13% size:25% PRODUCERS.

line:85% position:15% size:35% >> EVERY TIME.

line:85% position:21% size:53% THEY ZOOMED RIGHT IN.

line:85% position:36% size:73% THEY WOULD SEE FEAR AND PRESS line:85% position:24% size:58% IT, WHY ARE YOU CRYING?

line:85% position:44% size:78% WOULD YOUR DAD BE PROUD OF YOU?

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:27% size:63% HE HAS PASSED BY THE WAY.

line:85% position:15% size:33% THEY KNEW IT.

line:85% position:17% size:43% THEY WOULD GO IN.

line:85% position:13% size:20% >> RUDE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> BUT WHAT KEPT ME GROUNDED, line:85% position:33% size:70% WHAT KEPT ME OKAY IS THAT MY line:85% position:16% size:38% CENTER IS HERE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% LIKE I WAS RAISED IN A PLACE line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT IS REAL AND THE FOOD THAT I line:85% position:27% size:63% WAS MAKING WAS REAL FOOD.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND IT-- EVERYTHING ELSE CAN BE line:85% position:36% size:73% GOING WRONG BUT IF I'M MAKING line:85% position:50% size:80% FOOD, THAT'S PART OF ME AND THEN line:85% position:29% size:65% SUDDENLY EVERYTHING IS ALL line:85% position:12% size:15% RIGHT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SO THAT WAS THE TOUGHEST PART line:85% position:12% size:18% FOR ME.

line:85% position:33% size:70% THE TOUGHEST PART FOR ME WAS line:85% position:50% size:80% FINALLY SAYING LIKE I THINK THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% I-- I HAVEN'T BEEN TOLD BY A LOT line:85% position:50% size:80% OF PEOPLE THAT I DESERVE TO HAVE line:85% position:44% size:78% A VOICE BUT I DESERVE TO HAVE A line:85% position:15% size:35% VOICE IN THIS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I'M GOOD ENOUGH TO HAVE A VOICE line:85% position:13% size:20% IN THIS.

line:85% position:36% size:73% AND THAT WAS REALLY, REALLY-- line:85% position:44% size:78% IT'S STILL HARD TO OWN THAT, TO line:85% position:36% size:73% STAND IN THAT AND SAY LIKE, I line:85% position:22% size:55% HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SO FOR YOU ALL, WHAT HAS BEEN line:85% position:50% size:80% THE HARDEST THING ABOUT BEING IN line:85% position:14% size:28% THIS FIELD?

line:85% position:50% size:80% IF YOU START CRYING, I'M TOTALLY line:85% position:22% size:55% GOING IN FOR THE KILL.

line:85% position:13% size:25% >> OH BOY.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:27% size:63% >> RIGHT, AND ANYBODY...?

line:85% position:18% size:45% >> I'LL GO FOR IT.

line:85% position:29% size:65% THERE IS A LOT OF IMPOSTER line:85% position:40% size:75% SYNDROME THAT GOES ON WHEN YOU line:85% position:40% size:75% ARE NEW TO AN INDUSTRY AND YOU line:85% position:31% size:68% REALLY DON'T THINK THAT YOU line:85% position:44% size:78% BELONG THERE BECAUSE YOU EITHER line:85% position:36% size:73% HAVEN'T WORKED YOUR WAY UP IN line:85% position:31% size:68% KITCHENS OR, I LIKE TO TELL line:85% position:50% size:80% PEOPLE, YOU HAVE HE NEVER WORKED line:85% position:31% size:68% IN MY MOTHER'S KITCHEN SO I line:85% position:40% size:75% DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE WORTH IT.

line:85% position:24% size:58% SHE IS VERY PARTICULAR.

line:85% position:13% size:20% >> SAME.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> BUT I WORK MY TAIL OFF AND line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE ARE ALWAYS THOSE DOUBTERS line:85% position:50% size:80% AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE MAYBE A line:85% position:36% size:73% LITTLE JEALOUS, A LITTLE MAD, line:85% position:31% size:68% MAYBE THEY'RE THINKING THAT line:85% position:29% size:65% THEY'RE DOING YOU A FAVOR.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY'RE LIKE, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY line:85% position:29% size:65% THIS HAPPENED ON SATURDAY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THREE MALE CHEFS WERE ALL TOLD line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT THEY HAD A REALLY GREAT line:85% position:44% size:78% DISH, AND I GOT CONDESCENDED TO line:85% position:24% size:58% RIGHT IN THE SAME LINE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% HE WAS JUST LIKE GREAT JOB CHEF.

line:85% position:17% size:40% GREAT JOB, CHEF.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND HE GETS TO ME AND HE WAS line:85% position:40% size:75% LIKE, OH MY GOSH, DID YOU MAKE line:85% position:20% size:50% EVERYTHING YOURSELF?

line:85% position:16% size:38% IT WAS SO GOOD.

line:85% position:31% size:68% SO THE HARDEST THING IS NOT line:85% position:50% size:80% PUNCHING PEOPLE IN THE NOSE WHEN line:85% position:17% size:40% THEY DESERVE IT.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:22% size:55% >> REAL TALK WITH SAM.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:27% size:63% >> I HAVE EXCELLENT FORM.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> WELL, YOU KNOW, WE LIVE line:85% position:12% size:15% RURAL.

line:85% position:29% size:65% MY RESTAURANT IS IN WILLIE line:85% position:36% size:73% COUNTY AND SO WE WENT FOR IT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WE WANTED TO HAVE A BOURBON BAR, line:85% position:19% size:48% 24 TAP CRAFT BEERS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% WE WANTED TO HAVE FARM-TO-FORK, line:85% position:18% size:45% REAL FARM-TO-FORK.

line:85% position:36% size:73% AND SO WE JUST STARTED MAKING line:85% position:40% size:75% ALL THE CALLS AND NO ONE WOULD line:85% position:15% size:33% CALL US BACK.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND YOU KNOW, I'M THE TALKER OF line:85% position:50% size:80% MY PARTNERS AND SO I WAS THE ONE line:85% position:13% size:20% CALLING.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO AND THEN PEOPLE WOULD WALK IN line:85% position:44% size:78% AND THEY LOOKED AT ME AND SAID, line:85% position:17% size:40% WHO'S THE OWNER?

line:85% position:25% size:60% CAN I TALK TO THE OWNER?

line:85% position:40% size:75% I WOULD BE LIKE YOU'RE TALKING line:85% position:12% size:18% TO HER.

line:85% position:14% size:28% RIGHT HERE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I'M THE ONE YOU WANT TO TALK ON.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> WELL, WE WANT TO PUT IN 24 line:85% position:14% size:30% CRAFT BEERS.

line:85% position:29% size:65% ARE YOU SURE, LITTLE LADY?

line:85% position:31% size:68% SHATS SURE A LOT OF CRAFT-- line:85% position:29% size:65% THAT'S SURE A LOT OF CRAFT line:85% position:12% size:15% BEERS.

line:85% position:14% size:30% YES, I KNOW.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> SCBT IT GREAT-- ISN'T IT line:85% position:50% size:80% GREAT WHEN THEY ASSUME YOU DON'T line:85% position:19% size:48% KNOW WHAT YOU WANT?

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> SO SIX MONTHS WE COULDN'T GET line:85% position:40% size:75% BOURBON AFTER WE OPENED AND WE line:85% position:44% size:78% KEPT ON CALLING AND CALLING AND line:85% position:50% size:80% SO, YOU KNOW, ONE THING THAT YOU line:85% position:33% size:70% MAKE A MISTAKE WHEN YOU TELL line:85% position:29% size:65% KRISTIN SMITH YOU CAN'T DO line:85% position:13% size:23% ANYTHING.

line:85% position:18% size:45% >> I'VE SEEN THIS.

line:85% position:13% size:25% IT'S TRUE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> DON'T TELL ME THAT I CAN'T DO line:85% position:36% size:73% SOMETHING BECAUSE GUESS WHAT?

line:85% position:36% size:73% I'M GOING TO PROVE YOU WRONG.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I'M GOING TO PROVE YOU WRONG line:85% position:13% size:20% ALL DAY.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:40% size:75% SO THAT WAS VERY MOTIVATING TO line:85% position:36% size:73% STICK TO IT AND GET AFTER IT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND SO WE HAVE, NOW WE HAVE OVER line:85% position:14% size:30% 65 BOURBONS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WE HAVE A GREAT CRAFT COCKTAILS, line:85% position:40% size:75% BASE BOURBON, COCKTAILS, A LOT line:85% position:40% size:75% OF GREAT FOOD AND AND FLIPPING line:85% position:17% size:43% THEM EVERY NIGHT.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> HOW.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> THIS IS THE PART THAT IS SO line:85% position:50% size:80% INTERESTING TO ME THAT I LIKE TO line:85% position:50% size:80% KNOW, IS LIKE WHAT WAS IT THAT-- line:85% position:19% size:48% WHEN DID IT CHANGE?

line:85% position:36% size:73% AND HOW DID YOU-- HOW DID YOU line:85% position:50% size:80% STICK WITH IT WHEN IT KEPT BEING line:85% position:14% size:28% NO, NO, NO.

line:85% position:31% size:68% LIKE WHERE WAS YOUR CENTER?

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> WELL, THE RESTAURANTS CALLED line:85% position:31% size:68% IT THE WRIGLEY TAP ROOM AND line:85% position:44% size:78% EATERY SO IT WAS PREDOMINANTLY, line:85% position:36% size:73% EVEN IN THE NAME, A TAP ROOM.

line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT THE PROBLEM IS WE COULDN'T line:85% position:44% size:78% GET THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES BUT line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT DIDN'T KEEP US FROM CALLING line:85% position:25% size:60% UP MY FARMER FRIENDS AND line:85% position:44% size:78% BRINGING IN THE BEST PRODUCE IN line:85% position:44% size:78% EASTERN KENTUCKY SO RIGHT THEN, line:85% position:27% size:63% YEAH, THE INDUSTRY MADE A line:85% position:17% size:40% DECISION FOR ME.

line:85% position:40% size:75% IT WASN'T GOING TO BE BEVERAGE line:85% position:13% size:23% DIRECTED.

line:85% position:24% size:58% IT WAS GOING TO BE FOOD line:85% position:44% size:78% DIRECTED, WHICH IS ACTUALLY THE line:85% position:25% size:60% BEST-- THAT WAS THE BEST line:85% position:40% size:75% DECISION THAT WAS MADE FOR ME.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND SO I JUST, YOU KNOW, I USED line:85% position:21% size:53% WHAT I HAD BEFORE ME.

line:85% position:27% size:63% AND AND THAT'S THE THING.

line:85% position:31% size:68% PEOPLE DO COME FOR THE FOOD line:85% position:12% size:15% FIRST.

line:85% position:24% size:58% THEY STAY MAYBE FOR THE line:85% position:13% size:23% BEVERAGE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% BRINGING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER line:85% position:33% size:70% AND BREAKING BREAD TOGETHER.

line:85% position:29% size:65% AND SO THAT HELPED US STAY line:85% position:44% size:78% CENTERED TO OUR MISSION ANYWAY.

line:85% position:33% size:70% IT'S OKAY BECAUSE IT KEPT ON line:85% position:14% size:28% PUSHING US.

line:85% position:14% size:28% >> MY TURN?

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> YES.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> I LOOKED DOWN FOR A SECOND line:85% position:40% size:75% AND NOW MY EYES ARE GLAZING AT line:85% position:11% size:10% YOU.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> THE QUESTION WAS, WHAT IS THE line:85% position:16% size:38% DIFFICULT PART?

line:85% position:19% size:48% SO FOR ME IT'S AGE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I'M ALWAYS THE YOUNGEST PERSON line:85% position:14% size:30% IN THE ROOM.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I'M THE YOUNGEST PERSON ON THE line:85% position:17% size:40% STAGE RIGHT NOW.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT COME ON.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:25% size:60% >> THAT'S UP FOR DEBATE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> I'M GOING TO BE 21 THIS YEAR.

line:85% position:25% size:60% >> AND I'M GOING TO BE A line:85% position:13% size:20% UNICORN.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> WE CAN ALL BE UNICORNS.

line:85% position:29% size:65% BUT JUST FEELING LIKE I'VE line:85% position:40% size:75% ALWAYS GOT TO OUTWORK EVERYONE line:85% position:50% size:80% IS REALLY DIFFICULT AND IT TAKES line:85% position:24% size:58% A TOLL ON ME SOMETIMES.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I DEFINITELY HAVE BEEN IN THAT line:85% position:40% size:75% SITUATION WHERE, ARE YOU GOING line:85% position:15% size:35% MAKE CUPCAKES?

line:85% position:29% size:65% WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE line:85% position:18% size:45% CUPCAKES, COOKIES?

line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT SITUATION WHERE MY MALE line:85% position:44% size:78% COUNTERPARTS AREN'T ASKED THOSE line:85% position:33% size:70% QUESTIONS OR JUST, YOU KNOW, line:85% position:40% size:75% LIKE I SAID, NO ONE EXPECTS ME line:85% position:25% size:60% TO WORK AS HARD AS I DO.

line:85% position:44% size:78% A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE A NEGATIVE line:85% position:40% size:75% PERCEPTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND line:85% position:44% size:78% THINK THAT WE ARE LAZY AND THAT line:85% position:36% size:73% WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WORK ETHIC line:85% position:11% size:8% IS.

line:85% position:36% size:73% MY MAMA SHOWED ME HOW TO WORK line:85% position:17% size:43% HARPED EVERY DAY.

line:85% position:13% size:25% EVERY DAY.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:11% size:8% IS.

line:85% position:15% size:35% >> YEAH, MAMA.

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> SO FOR ME, YOU KNOW, I line:85% position:44% size:78% WATCHED THAT LADY GET UP AND WE line:85% position:36% size:73% DIDN'T HAVE A CAR GROWING UP.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SO I WOULD WATCH HER GET UP TWO line:85% position:31% size:68% HOURS EARLY FOR WORK SO SHE line:85% position:24% size:58% COULD BE THERE ON TIME.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SHE WOULD RATHER BE TWO HOURS line:85% position:36% size:73% EARLY THAN FIVE MINUTES LATE.

line:85% position:21% size:53% THAT'S MY WORK ETHIC.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND THAT'S MY MIND SET EVERY line:85% position:11% size:10% DAY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND AS SOON AS I WAKE UP IN THE line:85% position:50% size:80% MORNING I'M ON MY PHONE, READING line:85% position:44% size:78% THE EMAILS, GETTING UP TO DATE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WHAT IS MY TO DO LIST AND THAT'S line:85% position:16% size:38% JUST WHAT I DO.

line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT WHENEVER YOU ARE AS YOUNG AS line:85% position:31% size:68% I AM, AND YOU ARE DOING THE line:85% position:50% size:80% THINGS YOU ARE DOING, PEOPLE ARE line:85% position:36% size:73% LIKE ARE YOU SURE THIS PERSON line:85% position:20% size:50% SHOULD BE IN CHARGE?

line:85% position:36% size:73% LIKE MY PRINCIPAL, WHENEVER I line:85% position:44% size:78% WAS GETTING HIRED LAST YEAR WAS line:85% position:24% size:58% CONCERNED ABOUT MY AGE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% JUST LIKE REALLY, REALLY WORRIED line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT THAT WAS GOING TO BE SOME line:85% position:40% size:75% TYPE OF THING TO HOLD ME BACK.

line:85% position:36% size:73% MY PROGRAM IS BETTER THAN ANY line:85% position:22% size:55% OTHER PROGRAM IN JCTS.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:29% size:65% >> IS IT HARD TO SAY THAT?

line:85% position:12% size:15% >> NO.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> YOU DON'T HAVE TROUBLE?

line:85% position:25% size:60% I HAVE TROUBLE OWNING MY line:85% position:13% size:25% SUCCESSES.

line:85% position:24% size:58% I FIND IT-- I FIND IT-- line:85% position:33% size:70% >> THAT'S MY RESOLUTION THIS line:85% position:40% size:75% YEAR IS TO OWN IT MORE BECAUSE line:85% position:29% size:65% LIKE WHEN I CAME OUT HERE, line:85% position:33% size:70% EVERYBODY WAS CLAPPING AND I line:85% position:40% size:75% REALIZED WHEN YOU CAME OUT YOU line:85% position:50% size:80% DID YOUR DANCE AND EVERYONE CAME line:85% position:44% size:78% OUT AND I WALKED OUT LIKE THIS.

line:85% position:31% size:68% LIKE OH MY GOSH, PEOPLE ARE line:85% position:15% size:35% LOOKING AT ME.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I HAVE TO REMIND MYSELF THAT line:85% position:20% size:50% IT'S OKAY TO OWN IT.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> YES.

line:85% position:20% size:50% >> I'VE WORKED HARD.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> YES.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> IT TAKES A MINUTE TO OWN IT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% IT HELPS THAT I'M THE ONLY ONE line:85% position:44% size:78% IN MY-- I'M PRETTY MUCH THE TOM line:85% position:31% size:68% PERSON DOING SRI LANKAN AND line:85% position:29% size:65% SOUTHERN CUISINE TOGETHER.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I DON'T KNOW OF ANYONE ELSE BUT line:85% position:40% size:75% THE FIRST TIME I EVER DID LIVE line:85% position:40% size:75% TV I WAS SO FREAKED OUT THAT I line:85% position:31% size:68% HAD MY HAIR-- I LOOKED LIKE line:85% position:17% size:43% COULD YOUS INITT.

line:85% position:18% size:45% LIKE-- COUSIN ITT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY WERE LIKE WE CAN'T SEE YOUR line:85% position:11% size:13% FACE.

line:85% position:27% size:63% AND I WAS LIKE, OH SORRY.

line:85% position:18% size:45% IT TAKES A MINUTE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% OWNING IT AND BEING PROUD OF IT line:85% position:36% size:73% AND YOU BOUGHT TO BE PROUD OF line:85% position:13% size:23% YOURSELF.

line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU GOT TO PAT YOURSELF ON THE line:85% position:40% size:75% BACK AND THAT'S SOMETHING I'VE line:85% position:29% size:65% HAD TO LEARN OVER THE LAST line:85% position:40% size:75% COUPLE OF YEARS BECAUSE THAT'S line:85% position:25% size:60% JUST NOT SOMETHING I WAS line:85% position:20% size:50% ACCUSTOMED TO DOING.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> LINDS SEA TALKED ABOUT IT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% LAST YEAR WHEN I STARTED MY JOB line:85% position:50% size:80% AT IROQUOIS, I HAD A ROOM WITH A line:85% position:12% size:18% CARPET.

line:85% position:17% size:40% >> I VISITED IT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE WHAT YOU line:85% position:11% size:10% DID.

line:85% position:17% size:40% >> MOLDY CARPET.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IT WASN'T A GOOD SITUATION BUT I line:85% position:31% size:68% WAS ABLE TO CONNECT WITH MY line:85% position:36% size:73% STUDENTS AND MAKE THE BEST OF line:85% position:44% size:78% THE SITUATION AND NOW WE HAVE A line:85% position:50% size:80% COMMERCIAL KITCHEN AND HAVE I 22 line:85% position:33% size:70% KIDS HERE TONIGHT COLLECTING line:85% position:21% size:53% RECIPES A YEAR LATER.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:11% size:13% YEAH!

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> IS THAT YOUR PROUDEST?

line:85% position:44% size:78% WHAT ARE YOU THE MOST PROUDEST?

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> I'M REALLY PROUD OF MY line:85% position:25% size:60% CLASSROOM BUT IT'S STILL line:85% position:36% size:73% SOMETHING THAT'S GROWING INTO line:85% position:44% size:78% SOMETHING I'M GOING TO BE SUPER line:85% position:40% size:75% PROUD OF AND EVERYONE IS GOING line:85% position:16% size:38% TO BE PROUD OF.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WHAT I'M MOST PROUD OF, PERSONAL line:85% position:33% size:70% THINGS, I WAS COOKING AT THE line:85% position:14% size:30% BEARD HOUSE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THE SECOND YOUNGEST PERSON TO DO line:85% position:11% size:8% SO.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT WAS AN AWESOME MOMENT FOR line:85% position:11% size:8% ME.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:22% size:55% >> THAT'S A HUGE DEAL.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW NIKKIA, line:85% position:44% size:78% EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT line:85% position:25% size:60% WHAT THE BEARD HOUSE IS?

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> I'M SURE COULD YOU DO MORE line:85% position:16% size:38% DETAILED STUFF.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THE BEST WAY I GOT STUDENTS TO line:85% position:44% size:78% UNDERSTAND BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT line:85% position:24% size:58% I WAS GOING TO CHALKED.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IT line:85% position:40% size:75% WAS BUT I HAD TO BREAK IT DOWN line:85% position:44% size:78% LIKE WHEN BRYSON TILLER GOT HIS line:85% position:25% size:60% FIRST BIG MUSICAL AWARD.

line:85% position:50% size:80% HE WENT TO IROQUOIS SO THEY WERE line:85% position:13% size:23% LIKE, OH.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I WAS LIKE YEAH, YOU DON'T GET line:85% position:17% size:40% TO JUST DO THIS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% LIKE PEOPLE HAVE TO WIN AWARDS line:85% position:50% size:80% TO DO THIS STUFF AND LIKE I WENT line:85% position:50% size:80% BACK AND I TOLD MY KIDS SOMEBODY line:85% position:36% size:73% PAID $200 TO EAT MY FOOD, YO.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> IT WAS A BIG DEAL TO, ONE BE line:85% position:36% size:73% ABLE TO WORK WITH THE WOMEN I line:85% position:33% size:70% GOT TO WORK WITH DURING THAT line:85% position:31% size:68% EVENT AND 2: TO BE ABLE TO line:85% position:12% size:18% TRAVEL.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I HAD NEVER BEEN TO NEW YORK AND line:85% position:31% size:68% FOR THE FIRST TIME TO BE IN line:85% position:40% size:75% NEW YORK TO COOK THERE, I MEAN line:85% position:33% size:70% 50 YEAR OLDS WANT TO DO THAT line:85% position:33% size:70% KIND OF STUFF, 60 YEAR OLDS.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:36% size:73% I GOT TO OWN THE YOUNGNESS ON line:85% position:13% size:23% THAT ONE.

line:85% position:14% size:30% IT WAS COOL.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IT GAVE ME A LOT OF CREDIBILITY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I FEEL LIKE IT HELPED PEOPLE TO line:85% position:21% size:53% TAKE ME MORE SERIOUS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% PEOPLE DON'T EXPECT THAT STUFF line:85% position:13% size:20% FROM ME.

line:85% position:33% size:70% SO IT HELPED THEM TO TAKE ME line:85% position:15% size:33% MORE SERIOUS.

line:85% position:22% size:55% THAT'S A PROUD MOMENT.

line:85% position:17% size:40% WHAT DID I MAKE?

line:85% position:33% size:70% BISCUITS WITH WHIPPED CREAM.

line:85% position:29% size:65% THEY WERE FLAKEY BISCUITS.

line:85% position:14% size:30% AND PEACHES.

line:85% position:17% size:43% >> VERY SOUTHERN.

line:85% position:13% size:20% >> VERY.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE FROM line:85% position:33% size:70% KENTUCKY IN HERE IN SMATTER.

line:85% position:25% size:60% (SMATTERING OF APPLAUSE) line:85% position:40% size:75% ANYBODY RAISING THEIR HANDS UP line:85% position:11% size:10% NOW?

line:85% position:40% size:75% WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT line:85% position:27% size:63% FROM KENTUCKY BUT ARE NOW line:85% position:17% size:43% KENTUCKY IS HOME?

line:85% position:40% size:75% (LARGER RESPONSE OF APPLAUSE).

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT line:85% position:13% size:23% KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> THERE IS ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING line:85% position:40% size:75% ABOUT KENTUCKY AND IT HAPPENED line:85% position:36% size:73% THREE DAYS AFTER I MOVED BACK line:85% position:29% size:65% AFTER SPENDING 11 YEARS IN line:85% position:15% size:35% MASSACHUSETTS.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I STILL WONDER WHY I SPENT 11 line:85% position:50% size:80% YEARS IN MASSACHUSETTS BECAUSE I line:85% position:17% size:40% HATE BEING COLD.

line:85% position:36% size:73% BUT SURE ENOUGH, I SAT IN AND line:85% position:40% size:75% MOVING HERE FELT LIKE A REALLY line:85% position:14% size:30% LONG EXHALE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I FELT LIKE I HAD BEEN HOLDING line:85% position:25% size:60% IN ALL THIS PRESSURE AND line:85% position:14% size:28% EVERYTHING.

line:85% position:27% size:63% AND MY MINDSET COMPLETELY line:85% position:29% size:65% SHIFTED BECAUSE EVERYTHING line:85% position:50% size:80% BEFORE I MOVED BACK WAS WHAT CAN line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU DO FOR ME, WHAT CAN YOU DO line:85% position:12% size:18% FOR ME?

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND EVERYONE HERE WAS LIKE COOL, line:85% position:36% size:73% WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU TO MAKE line:85% position:17% size:40% YOUR TRANSITION.

line:85% position:22% size:55% WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU.

line:85% position:36% size:73% THE KENTUCKY HOSPITALITY, THE line:85% position:13% size:20% MANNERS.

line:85% position:27% size:63% I MEAN YOU CAN'T BEAT IT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THERE IS NO PLACE THAT I WOULD line:85% position:13% size:25% RATHER BE.

line:85% position:13% size:23% FOR SURE.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:33% size:70% >> THIS IS A VERY HOT TOPIC.

line:85% position:36% size:73% ARE WE SOUTHERN OR ARE WE MID line:85% position:13% size:20% WESTERN?

line:85% position:14% size:30% >> SOUTHERN.

line:85% position:14% size:30% >> SOUTHERN.

line:85% position:14% size:30% >> MOUNTAIN.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> OH, I DIDN'T EVEN ADD THAT line:85% position:12% size:18% ONE IN.

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> SHE'S FROM APPALACHIA.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> I SAY APRIL PLASIA-- APRIL line:85% position:31% size:68% APRIL PLACHIA-- APPALACHIA.

line:85% position:40% size:75% MY DAD WAS NORTH GEORGIA AND I line:85% position:40% size:75% HAVE ALWAYS, LIKE YOUR DIALECT line:85% position:33% size:70% TELLS THE STORY WHERE YOU'RE line:85% position:44% size:78% FROM AND SO I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT line:85% position:50% size:80% WOULD BE DISRESPECTFUL OR LIKE I line:85% position:27% size:63% WAS POSING IF I WOULD SAY line:85% position:14% size:28% APPALACHIA.

line:85% position:31% size:68% BUT IF I SAY IT APPALACHIA, line:85% position:24% size:58% PEOPLE WILL CORRECT ME.

line:85% position:36% size:73% THEY SAY IT'S NIKE NAILS ON A line:85% position:14% size:28% CHALKBOARD.

line:85% position:22% size:55% HELP ME UNDERSTAND IT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> YOU DIDN'T HAVE SOMEONE TELL line:85% position:36% size:73% YOU THEY'RE GOING TO THROW AN line:85% position:14% size:30% APPLE AT YA.

line:85% position:12% size:15% CATCH.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I MEAN IT JUST FEELS WRONG.

line:85% position:17% size:43% JUST FEELS WRONG.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:15% size:33% >> THANK YOU.

line:85% position:19% size:48% ALL CLEARED UP NOW.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> AND IT'S REALLY ACTUALLY A line:85% position:33% size:70% VERY DIFFICULT THING TO TALK line:85% position:31% size:68% ABOUT BECAUSE EVERYTHING IN line:85% position:29% size:65% APPALACHIA IS COMPLICATED.

line:85% position:22% size:55% IT'S JUST COMPLICATED.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE IS A LOT OF BAGGAGE THERE line:85% position:36% size:73% SO WE COULD BE HERE FOR DAYS.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:44% size:78% BUT THIS IS WHAT I REALIZED AND line:85% position:44% size:78% IT TOOK ME A LITTLE WHILE AFTER line:85% position:44% size:78% I CAME HOME, BECAUSE I WAS GONE line:85% position:15% size:33% FOR 10 YEARS.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I REALIZED WHEN YOU LIVE IN line:85% position:33% size:70% APPALACHIA, YOU DON'T SAY OH line:85% position:44% size:78% HEY, SAM, I'M APRIL LATCHAN BUT line:85% position:36% size:73% WHEN YOU LEAVE YOU SAY YOU'RE line:85% position:40% size:75% FROM APPALACHIA OR MY FAVORITE line:85% position:11% size:13% FOOD.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SO LIKE APRIL LATCHIAN PEOPLE line:85% position:27% size:63% WHO LIVE IN THE MOUNTAINS line:85% position:40% size:75% TYPICALLY DON'T SAY THAT WORD.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I LIKE HOW IT SOUNDS LIKE WE line:85% position:29% size:65% ARE TALKING ABOUT A SWEAR.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> WE DON'T SAY THAT WORD IN line:85% position:14% size:28% THIS HOUSE.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> AND THERE ARE DIFFERENT line:85% position:36% size:73% ACCENTS AND DIFFERENT WAYS OF line:85% position:44% size:78% SAYING IT BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY line:85% position:50% size:80% WHEN KENNEDY CAME IN AND JOHNSON line:85% position:44% size:78% AND REALLY STARTED PUTTING SOME line:85% position:40% size:75% HIGHLIGHT ON WHAT WAS GOING ON line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT, YOU KNOW, KENNEDY KIND OF line:85% position:33% size:70% DEFINED IT IN ALL THE UNITED line:85% position:50% size:80% STATES AND THE WORLD OH THERE IS line:85% position:29% size:65% A PLACE CALLED APPALACHIA.

line:85% position:15% size:33% (AP-A-LASHIA) line:85% position:31% size:68% >> WE JUST WANT YOU TO COME line:85% position:12% size:15% VISIT.

line:85% position:29% size:65% JUST COME AND EAT WITH US.

line:85% position:22% size:55% >> AND SAY APPALACHIA.

line:85% position:31% size:68% IT DOESN'T MAKE ME A POSER.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> NO, IT DID US NOT MAKE YOU A line:85% position:12% size:15% POSER.

line:85% position:40% size:75% WE JUST THINK WE NEED TO TEACH line:85% position:18% size:45% YOU HOW TO SAY IT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE THAT TO line:85% position:13% size:25% US AT ALL.

line:85% position:33% size:70% IT JUST, MAYBE SAYS, OH THEY line:85% position:31% size:68% LIVE OUTSIDE OF APPALACHIA.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> DOES IT MAKE IT FEEL LIKE I line:85% position:25% size:60% RESPECT IT MORE IF I SAY line:85% position:14% size:28% APPALACHIA?

line:85% position:29% size:65% DOES THAT SIGNAL TO YOU... line:85% position:17% size:43% >> TO ME IT DOES.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I CAN'T SPEAK FOR EVERYBODY BUT line:85% position:44% size:78% TO ME IT DOES BECAUSE IF YOU GO line:85% position:50% size:80% TO QUEBEC, YOU VISIT AND THEY'RE line:85% position:16% size:38% LIKE, KAY-BECK.

line:85% position:24% size:58% SO YOU FEEL LIKE KOOBA.

line:85% position:12% size:15% (CUBA) line:85% position:31% size:68% SEE THIS IS THE APPALACHIA.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> BUT WE WERE-- WE ENDED UP IN line:85% position:50% size:80% SPAIN AT THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR line:85% position:50% size:80% DOING FOOD RESEARCH AND THERE IS line:85% position:40% size:75% SOMING ABOUT IN THE HISTORY OF line:85% position:40% size:75% SPAIN, SOME KING HAD A LISP SO line:85% position:36% size:73% NOW THEY SAY... AND NOBODY IS line:85% position:40% size:75% EXPECTING KNEE SAY THAT BUT OF line:85% position:29% size:65% COURSE I'M GOING, GRATHIA.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I'M SURE SOMEBODY SHOULD HAVE line:85% position:17% size:40% SPIT IN MY FOOD.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> THE REAL THING IS THAT YOU line:85% position:11% size:10% TRY.

line:85% position:13% size:20% >> OKAY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> I WAS IN SPAIN SAYING THERVAI line:85% position:11% size:13% THIA.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> PEOPLE SAID YOU HAVE A GREAT line:85% position:36% size:73% LISP AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S line:85% position:31% size:68% SOMETHING YOU WANT TO HAVE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> IT DEPENDS ON THE CULTURE.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> IT CAN SOMETIMES FEEL IN line:85% position:40% size:75% KENTUCKY, IT CAN FEEL A LITTLE line:85% position:44% size:78% LIKE IF YOU DON'T-- LIKE IF YOU line:85% position:36% size:73% ARE TALKING ABOUT BASKETBALL, line:85% position:29% size:65% SUDDENLY IF YOU DON'T LIKE line:85% position:31% size:68% BASKETBALL, WE ARE DIVIDED.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> I'M ABOUT TO GIVE YOU SIDE line:85% position:11% size:10% EYE.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> LEXINGTON OR LOUISVILLE.

line:85% position:19% size:48% APPALACHIA OR CITY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% HOW DO WE MAKE IT SO THAT WE ARE line:85% position:36% size:73% HONORING ALL OF THOSE THINGS?

line:85% position:29% size:65% HOW DO WE TELL THAT STORY?

line:85% position:33% size:70% BECAUSE WHEN I GO OUTSIDE OF line:85% position:40% size:75% KENTUCKY, EVERYONE THINKS THAT line:85% position:36% size:73% NUMBER ONE, THEY THINK THAT I line:85% position:14% size:30% RIDE HORSES.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I WAS RAISED IN OLD LOUISVILLE line:85% position:17% size:40% AND IN PORTLAND.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I LITERALLY DIDN'T GET ON A line:85% position:40% size:75% HORSE UNTIL I WAS PROBABLY 30. line:85% position:27% size:63% THEY'RE TERRIFYING TO ME.

line:85% position:21% size:53% I MEAN REALLY LISTEN.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I GOT ON A HORSE AND I SAT IN line:85% position:31% size:68% THE SADDLE AND I SAID OKAY, line:85% position:17% size:43% WHERE'S THE BELT.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:15% size:35% I DIDN'T KNOW.

line:85% position:16% size:38% I SWEAR TO GOD.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> I WOULD HAVE PAID TO SEE line:85% position:11% size:13% THAT.

line:85% position:11% size:5% I. line:85% position:50% size:80% >> I WAS LIKE, I HAVE TO STAY UP line:85% position:24% size:58% HERE WITH JUST MY LEGS?

line:85% position:29% size:65% I NEED TO GET DOWN, Y'ALL.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SO I THINK THAT PEOPLE HAVE A line:85% position:44% size:78% PERCEPTION OF WHAT KENTUCKY IS.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I THINK THAT WHAT IS EXCITING line:85% position:33% size:70% ABOUT KENTUCKY IS THAT IT IS line:85% position:33% size:70% VASTLY MORE INTERESTING THAN line:85% position:15% size:33% PEOPLE THINK.

line:85% position:33% size:70% SO HOW DO WE TELL THAT WHOLE line:85% position:12% size:15% STORY?

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND WHAT IS THAT STORY THAT WE line:85% position:40% size:75% ARE ALL TRYING TO TELL THROUGH line:85% position:11% size:13% FOOD?

line:85% position:22% size:55% >> EVERYONE'S STORY IS line:85% position:13% size:25% DIFFERENT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I'M A FIRST GENERATION AMERICAN, line:85% position:50% size:80% WHERE MY MOTHER MADE TRADITIONAL line:85% position:29% size:65% MEALS EVERY NIGHT AT HOME.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND TO TELL THAT STORY, I HAVE line:85% position:17% size:43% TO UNDERSTAND IT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% AND I HAVE TO BE UNAPOLOGETIC line:85% position:13% size:23% ABOUT IT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I REALLY DON'T TAKE, YOU KNOW, line:85% position:21% size:53% BEING SLEIGHTED WELL.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO IF I HAVE TO PUT MY STORY OUT line:85% position:40% size:75% THERE, IF I HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, line:85% position:44% size:78% STAKE MY CLAIM, I'M REALLY KIND line:85% position:20% size:50% OF BULLISH ABOUT IT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% BUT I DON'T THINK THAT PEOPLE line:85% position:40% size:75% THINK OF WOMEN IN THAT SORT OF line:85% position:11% size:13% ROLE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY-- IT'S CHANGING NOW, THEY line:85% position:31% size:68% WANT THE SHRINKING VIOLENT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I THINK YOU HAVE TO BE BOLD TO line:85% position:36% size:73% GET YOUR STORY ACROSS BECAUSE line:85% position:40% size:75% PEOPLE ARE GOING TO UNDERSTAND line:85% position:22% size:55% WHAT IS ON YOUR PLATE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% PEOPLE ARE GOING HAVE ALL THESE line:85% position:50% size:80% CONCEPTIONS OF CURRIES AND FRIED line:85% position:31% size:68% CHICKENS AND THINGS YOU ARE line:85% position:33% size:70% GOING TO SERVE BUT ONCE THEY line:85% position:50% size:80% TASTE IT, THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO line:85% position:13% size:20% GET YOU.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> DO YOU FIND THAT KENTUCKY line:85% position:31% size:68% HELICOPTERS TELL THAT STORY line:85% position:12% size:18% BETTER?

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> YES.

line:85% position:22% size:55% >> THAN ANYWHERE ELSE?

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> I DON'T THINK MY BUSINESS line:85% position:36% size:73% WOULD HAVE SUCCEEDED ANYWHERE line:85% position:11% size:13% ELSE.

line:85% position:13% size:20% >> OKAY.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I KNOW THAT'S A VERY STRONG line:85% position:44% size:78% ASSUMPTION TO MAKE BUT I REALLY line:85% position:25% size:60% BELIEVE THAT PART OF THE line:85% position:50% size:80% SUCCESS, PART OF THE REASON THAT line:85% position:29% size:65% PEOPLE CARE IS BECAUSE I'M line:85% position:22% size:55% REPRESENTING KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:25% size:60% >> YOU GUYS ARE SO NICE.

line:85% position:13% size:25% >> NIKKIA.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> I WOULD SAY THE SAME THING, line:85% position:44% size:78% JUST GETTING ON THESE PLATFORMS line:85% position:13% size:25% LIKE THIS.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND BEING ABLE TO HAVE THOSE line:85% position:36% size:73% OPEN CONVERSATIONS AND HAVING line:85% position:22% size:55% ORGANIZATIONS LIKE LEE line:85% position:50% size:80% INITIATIVE THAT ARE TAKING WOMEN line:85% position:36% size:73% FROM KENTUCKY AND THEN TAKING line:85% position:50% size:80% THEM AND PUTTING THEM ACROSS THE line:85% position:40% size:75% COUNTRY AND KIND OF LETTING US line:85% position:27% size:63% REPRESENT AND SHOW PEOPLE line:85% position:20% size:50% SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

line:85% position:25% size:60% AND SHOW PEOPLE THAT ALL line:85% position:36% size:73% DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE CAN line:85% position:19% size:48% COME FROM KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I THINK THAT KENTUCKY IS ONE OF line:85% position:50% size:80% THOSE PLACES WHERE IT'S VERY WHO line:85% position:40% size:75% IS PIT TAX BILL AND YOU HAVE A line:85% position:50% size:80% REAL SENSE OF COMMUNITY WHEREVER line:85% position:13% size:20% YOU ARE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IF YOU ARE IN PORT LAPPED, SMOKE line:85% position:44% size:78% TOWN, IN APPALACHIA, YOU HAVE A line:85% position:19% size:48% SENSE OF COMMUNITY.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> MORE SO THAN PEOPLE WOULD line:85% position:12% size:18% EXPECT.

line:85% position:29% size:65% PEOPLE ARE VERY READILY TO line:85% position:33% size:70% ACCEPT YOU HOWEVER YOU COME.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO I THINK THAT WHENEVER WE HAVE line:85% position:40% size:75% THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND WE LET line:85% position:29% size:65% THE REST OF THE WORLD KNOW line:85% position:44% size:78% BECAUSE WE HERE IN KENTUCKY, WE line:85% position:11% size:13% KNOW.

line:85% position:31% size:68% WE KNOW WE ARE A COMMUNITY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% WE KNOW THE TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, line:85% position:31% size:68% HERE IN LOUISVILLE, YOU ASK line:85% position:40% size:75% SOMEBODY WHERE THEY GO TO HIGH line:85% position:44% size:78% SCHOOL AND EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT line:85% position:36% size:73% YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, RIGHT?

line:85% position:44% size:78% MAKES ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHO YOU line:85% position:11% size:10% ARE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO JUST BEING ABLE TO HAVE THOSE line:85% position:44% size:78% OPEN CONVERSATIONS LIKE THE ONE line:85% position:44% size:78% WE ARE HAVING TONIGHT IS REALLY line:85% position:44% size:78% THE BEST WAY TO BRIDGE THAT GAP line:85% position:36% size:73% BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING line:85% position:17% size:43% ABOUT APPALACHIA.

line:85% position:24% size:58% BUT NOW I KNOW KRISTIN.

line:85% position:12% size:15% RIGHT?

line:85% position:20% size:50% SO SHE CAN TEACH ME.

line:85% position:44% size:78% MAYBE SHE DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING line:85% position:17% size:43% ABOUT SMOKE TOWN.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I'M GOING TO TALK TO HER ABOUT line:85% position:40% size:75% SMOKE TOWN AND CHARLOTTE MAYS.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:27% size:63% >> I THINK TO ME THE MOST line:85% position:44% size:78% IMPORTANT THING, BECAUSE I GREW line:85% position:44% size:78% UP THINKING I HAD TO LEAVE THIS line:85% position:24% size:58% PLACE TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

line:85% position:44% size:78% BUT THEN I LEFT AND I CAME BACK line:85% position:27% size:63% AND THAT'S WHEN MY CAREER line:85% position:13% size:20% STARTED.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND SO IT TOOK ME A LONG AND line:85% position:36% size:73% ROUND ABOUT WAY TO REALIZE WE line:85% position:36% size:73% NEED TO STOP BEING APOLOGETIC line:85% position:50% size:80% FOR OUR FOOD AND FOR OUR ACCENTS line:85% position:44% size:78% AND FOR, NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF line:85% position:24% size:58% KENTUCKIAN COMMONWEALTH line:85% position:22% size:55% REPRESENTATIVE WE ARE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE PUTTED line:85% position:36% size:73% ON THE PLATE IS OUR HEART AND line:85% position:44% size:78% PASSION AND LOVE FOR WHO WE ARE line:85% position:14% size:30% COOKING FOR.

line:85% position:27% size:63% AND SO FOR ME, STOP BEING line:85% position:14% size:28% APOLOGETIC.

line:85% position:44% size:78% WE ARE UNAPOLOGETIC FOR WHAT WE line:85% position:50% size:80% DO AND WHO WE ARE AS KENTUCKIANS line:85% position:36% size:73% AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT THOSE line:85% position:40% size:75% FOLKS THAT ARE STARTING TO SEE line:85% position:44% size:78% KENTUCKY, YOU KNOW, THROUGH TOP line:85% position:31% size:68% CHEF OR THROUGH YOU ON FOOD line:85% position:31% size:68% NETWORK ARE PICKING UP LIKE line:85% position:50% size:80% KENTUCKY IS NOT WHAT WE THOUGHT.

line:85% position:13% size:23% >> IT IS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THE PERCEPTION AND STEREOTYPE AS line:85% position:40% size:75% ROUND KENTUCKY, OUTSIDE OF THE line:85% position:18% size:45% STATE, IT IS REAL.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> SOMEBODY I MET FROM OUT OF line:85% position:44% size:78% STATE SAID OH MY GOSH, YOU HAVE line:85% position:13% size:23% SHOES ON.

line:85% position:12% size:15% STILL?

line:85% position:17% size:40% COME ON, REALLY?

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I COOK BAREFOOT ALL THE TIME line:85% position:12% size:18% THOUGH.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> I DON'T NORMALLY HAVE SHOES line:85% position:15% size:33% ON, BUT OKAY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I'M TIRED OF THAT ONE WHY DO line:85% position:50% size:80% PEOPLE THINK I DON'T HAVE SHOES?

line:85% position:24% size:58% >> IT FEELS GREAT TO GO line:85% position:13% size:23% BAREFOOT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> I NOW HAVE FIGURED OUT WHY line:85% position:50% size:80% PEOPLE THINK I DON'T HAVE SHOES.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:29% size:65% IT'S NOT THAT WE DON'T OWN line:85% position:12% size:15% SHOES.

line:85% position:27% size:63% IT'S JUST IN KENTUCKY YOU line:85% position:36% size:73% UNDERSTAND THAT SOMETIMES YOU line:85% position:31% size:68% NEED TO STAND IN THE GRASS.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> AND I LIKE IT BETWEEN MY line:85% position:11% size:13% TOES.

line:85% position:15% size:35% >> ABSOLUTELY.

line:85% position:22% size:55% >> IT'S HELPING PEOPLE line:85% position:44% size:78% UNDERSTAND THAT THE STEREOTYPES line:85% position:33% size:70% HAPPEN, SOME OF THEM ARE NOT line:85% position:44% size:78% GREAT WE HAVE A HISTORY THAT IS line:85% position:40% size:75% NOT IDEAL AND WE HAVE A LOT OF line:85% position:29% size:65% WORK AS KENTUCKIANS TO DO.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> KENTUCKIANS COME IN ALL line:85% position:21% size:53% SHAPES, SIZES COLORS.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> WE ALL HAVE TO OWN WHO WE line:85% position:11% size:10% ARE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% ER WITH WE COME FROM AND JUST line:85% position:40% size:75% MAKE OTHER PEOPLE AWARE WE ARE line:85% position:36% size:73% PROUD OF IT OURSELVES, WE ARE line:85% position:33% size:70% LESES LIKELY TO BE AFRAID TO line:85% position:36% size:73% SHARE THAT WITH OTHER PEOPLE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> IF WE ARE NOT PROUD OF IT, WE line:85% position:44% size:78% WILL BE PART OF THE HELP FIXING line:85% position:11% size:8% IT.

line:85% position:15% size:35% >> ABSOLUTELY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO FIVE YEARS, FOOD IN KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:24% size:58% WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% WHAT DOES THE NEXT FIVE YEARS line:85% position:40% size:75% FOR KENTUCKY CUISINE LOOK LIKE line:85% position:50% size:80% AND WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN line:85% position:11% size:8% IT?

line:85% position:21% size:53% SILENCE ON THE STAGE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> I THINK WILD GAME IS GOING TO line:85% position:36% size:73% BECOME A BIG PART OF KENTUCKY line:85% position:13% size:20% CUISINE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING DAYS AND line:85% position:31% size:68% I THINK IT'S GOING TO CYCLE line:85% position:12% size:18% AROUND.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I DON'T KNOW WHY ELK IS NOT MORE line:85% position:15% size:33% ON THE MENUS.

line:85% position:21% size:53% AND ELK IS DELICIOUS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I'M GOING TO BE REAL HONEST.

line:85% position:21% size:53% I HAVE NEVER HAD ELK.

line:85% position:16% size:38% >> COME SEE ME.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> HOW MANY PEOPLE IN HERE HAVE line:85% position:13% size:20% HAD ELK?

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:24% size:58% IT WASN'T A RESOUNDING.

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> THERE WERE SOME WHOOS.

line:85% position:31% size:68% BUT I THINK IT'S ONE OF THE line:85% position:50% size:80% HARDEST PARTS ABOUT BEING A CITY line:85% position:40% size:75% KENTUCKY RIPARIANS NOT FEELING line:85% position:17% size:40% KENTUCKY ENOUGH.

line:85% position:36% size:73% LIKE YOU ARE NOT SOMEBODY WHO line:85% position:50% size:80% CATCHES SQUIRRELS: I DON'T HUNT line:85% position:13% size:23% SQUIRREL.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I KNOW PEOPLE THAT DO, BUT I line:85% position:17% size:43% DON'T PERSONALLY.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> I LIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF line:85% position:40% size:75% LEXINGTON AND MY REAR NEIGHBOR line:85% position:27% size:63% GAVE ME ALL THESE TIPS ON line:85% position:50% size:80% COOKING SQUIRRELS ONCE HE KNEW I line:85% position:12% size:18% COOKED.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I KNOW HOW TO COOK A SQUIRREL.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I'M NOT GOING TO BUT... SQUIRREL line:85% position:50% size:80% CURRY IS NO THE SUPER POPULAR IN line:85% position:13% size:25% SRI LANKA.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> I BET IT WOULD BE REALLY line:85% position:11% size:13% GOOD.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> NOW I'M GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE line:85% position:11% size:8% IT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> WHO WOULD EAT SQUIRREL CURRY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> EVERYBODY IS YELLING ABOUT IT line:85% position:33% size:70% BECAUSE IT'S NOT IN FRONT OF line:85% position:11% size:13% THEM.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:31% size:68% EVERYBODY IS LIKE WHOO-HOO!

line:85% position:27% size:63% YOU GET SOME FOR REAL OLD line:85% position:13% size:20% OPOSSUM.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> IT'S GAMEY AND WEIRD AND line:85% position:13% size:25% WONDERFUL.

line:85% position:13% size:25% >> SO ELK.

line:85% position:15% size:33% >> WHAT ELSE?

line:85% position:18% size:45% WHAT IS YOUR ROLE?

line:85% position:11% size:8% IT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I WANT TO PUT IT ON THE MENU line:85% position:11% size:13% MORE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I'M GOING TO BE A SUPPORT OF line:85% position:13% size:20% EROF IT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF ELK IN line:85% position:33% size:70% KENTUCKY AND WE SHOULDN'T BE line:85% position:40% size:75% BUYING IT FROM LOCAL COLORADO.

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> YEAH, STUPID COLORADO.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> DUH.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> THIS IS WHERE THE COLORADO- line:85% position:22% size:55% KENTUCKY BEEF STARTED.

line:85% position:25% size:60% >> ANYONE FROM COLORADO?

line:85% position:14% size:28% OKAY, GOOD.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I THINK MORE KENTUCKIANS ARE line:85% position:50% size:80% GOING TO BE EATING MORE LOCALLY.

line:85% position:25% size:60% I THINK IT'S BEEN ON THE line:85% position:36% size:73% FOREFRONT BUT WE ARE GOING TO line:85% position:18% size:45% START CARING MORE.

line:85% position:17% size:43% >> COME ON Y'ALL.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:31% size:68% >> WE HAVE SOME OF THE BEST line:85% position:31% size:68% AGRICULTURE IN THE COUNTRY.

line:85% position:20% size:50% >> WE HAVE THE BEST.

line:85% position:21% size:53% >> WHAT DO YOU THINK?

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> I THINK THAT IN THE IT KIND line:85% position:31% size:68% OF CONTRADICTS WHAT WE SAID line:85% position:50% size:80% ABOUT OWNING IT, BUT IN GENERAL, line:85% position:50% size:80% I THINK THAT IN SOME WAYS WE ARE line:85% position:14% size:28% VERY PROUD.

line:85% position:27% size:63% WE ARE KENTUCKY PROUD AND line:85% position:44% size:78% SOMETIMES IT JUST MAKES US MORE line:85% position:44% size:78% RELUCTANT TO CHANGE AND TRY NEW line:85% position:24% size:58% THINGS LIKE ELK, RIGHT?

line:85% position:31% size:68% I SEE US JUST BRANCHING OUT line:85% position:11% size:13% MORE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I SEE US BEING MORE INNOVATORS.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I THINK THAT THE WE HAVE, AT line:85% position:40% size:75% LEAST IN LOUISVILLE, WE HAVE A line:85% position:33% size:70% BUNCH OF DIFFERENT CULTURES.

line:85% position:31% size:68% SO I THINK HAVING ALL THESE line:85% position:44% size:78% DIFFERENT PEOPLE LIKE TUCK-TUCK line:85% position:40% size:75% TO SHARE THOSE THINGS, I THINK line:85% position:44% size:78% WHENEVER YOU FIND A PERSON LIKE line:85% position:44% size:78% SAM AND YOU'RE LIKE I LIKE SAM.

line:85% position:29% size:65% I'M GOING TO TRY HER FOOD.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND YOU GROW AS A PERSON, THAT'S line:85% position:33% size:70% WHAT I THINK WE ARE GOING TO line:85% position:11% size:10% SEE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> I GREW SIDEWAYS AS A PERSON line:85% position:40% size:75% WHEN I STARTED EATING MY GOOD, line:85% position:11% size:13% SO... line:85% position:14% size:30% >> BUT I DO.

line:85% position:31% size:68% BACK TO THE SERIOUS, SORRY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% CAN I NEVER KEEP ANYTHING ON THE line:85% position:12% size:15% RAILS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE IS A VERY LARGE IMMIGRANT line:85% position:50% size:80% REFUGEE COMMUNITY IN THIS STATE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> AND WE SHOULD BE INCREDIBLY line:85% position:15% size:35% PROUD OF THAT.

line:85% position:24% size:58% IT'S GOING TO DRIVE THE line:85% position:44% size:78% DIRECTION OF THE FUTURE OF FOOD line:85% position:31% size:68% BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO line:85% position:50% size:80% REALIZE THAT THERE ARE ALL THESE line:85% position:33% size:70% AMAZING INFLUENCES THAT THEY line:85% position:40% size:75% DIDN'T NECESSARILY HAVE ACCESS line:85% position:36% size:73% TO BEFORE I LIKE TO INTRODUCE line:85% position:50% size:80% PEOPLE TO THE SRI LANKAN VERSION line:85% position:44% size:78% OF SORGHUM BECAUSE IT'S SMOKING line:85% position:25% size:60% AND WEIRD AND WONDERFUL.

line:85% position:12% size:15% >>-UP.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> BUT I GET THE CHANCE TO DO line:85% position:11% size:13% THAT.

line:85% position:14% size:28% >> SORGHUM?

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> WE HAVE SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES line:85% position:31% size:68% BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY, BETWEEN line:85% position:40% size:75% COLLABORATION AND KNOWING EACH line:85% position:36% size:73% OTHER AND GETTING PEOPLE HERE line:85% position:27% size:63% WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE line:85% position:50% size:80% CULINARY SCENE AND THE PEOPLE IN line:85% position:11% size:8% IT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WE HAVE A MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY TO line:85% position:25% size:60% WORK TOGETHER AND CREATE line:85% position:31% size:68% SOMETHING INCREDIBLE NOBODY line:85% position:50% size:80% EXPECTS SRI LANKAN FRIED CHICKEN line:85% position:24% size:58% ON A MENU OR THE KOREAN line:85% position:44% size:78% BARBECUE, BUT WE HAVE ALL THESE line:85% position:12% size:18% THINGS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I HAVE AN EASIER TIME SOURCING line:85% position:40% size:75% INGREDIENTS IN KENTUCKY THAN I line:85% position:33% size:70% DO WHEN I GO OUT OF STATE TO line:85% position:31% size:68% BOSTON OR NEW YORK WHEN I'M line:85% position:20% size:50% DOING GUEST DINNERS.

line:85% position:11% size:10% WHY?

line:85% position:33% size:70% BECAUSE WE ARE GOOD AT THIS.

line:85% position:25% size:60% WE ARE GOOD AT EMBRACING line:85% position:13% size:25% EVERYBODY.

line:85% position:36% size:73% A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE TO line:85% position:44% size:78% PLAY THIS, WELL YOU ARE A BROWN line:85% position:36% size:73% KID IN KENTUCKY AND NO ONE IS line:85% position:40% size:75% GOING TO LIKE THAT AND THEY'RE line:85% position:12% size:15% WRONG.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY WRONG BECAUSE line:85% position:29% size:65% I WORKED HARD ON MAKING AN line:85% position:40% size:75% HONEST REPPATION OF MYSELF AND line:85% position:50% size:80% ONCE PEOPLE SEE THAT YOU ARE NOT line:85% position:50% size:80% B.S.ING THEM, THEY'RE WILLING TO line:85% position:40% size:75% ACCEPT AND ELEVATE AND NOTHING line:85% position:36% size:73% HAS ELEVATED ME MORE THAN THE line:85% position:25% size:60% GOOD FOLKS OF LEXINGTON.

line:85% position:22% size:55% >> GOOD OLD LEXINGTON.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:31% size:68% >> SO I KNOW THAT YOU ARE A line:85% position:31% size:68% FARMER I ONLY HAVE THE MOST line:85% position:25% size:60% RESPECT FOR OUR FARMERS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I HOPE THAT EVERYBODY IS GOING line:85% position:27% size:63% TO THEIR FARMERS MARKETS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT'S LIKE THEY'RE LITTLE GIFTS.

line:85% position:22% size:55% EVERY SINGLE SATURDAY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT'S MY FAVORITE THING TO DO ON line:85% position:40% size:75% A SATURDAY MORNING, GET COFFEE line:85% position:50% size:80% AND GO TO THE FARMERS MARKET AND line:85% position:31% size:68% JUST SEE WHAT OUR EARTH HAS line:85% position:27% size:63% PRODUCED AND TURN IT INTO line:85% position:40% size:75% SOMETHING TO FEED PEOPLE WITH.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I THINK THAT KENTUCKY-- I THINK line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT WE ARE GOING TO SEE MORE line:85% position:22% size:55% LOVE FOR THAT PRODUCE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I THINK THAT WE HOPEFULLY WILL line:85% position:36% size:73% TURN TOWARDS MORE LOCAL MEATS line:85% position:33% size:70% REALLY FOR EVERYONE MORE AND line:85% position:27% size:63% MORE PEOPLE REALIZE THAT.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> WE HAVE SOME AMAZING BEEF line:85% position:20% size:50% PRODUCTION GOING ON.

line:85% position:14% size:28% >> AMAZING.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> THAT'S WAS WHAT WE NEED TO line:85% position:11% size:8% DO.

line:85% position:31% size:68% WE SHOULD BE SUPPORTING THE line:85% position:25% size:60% AGRICULTURE OF KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:21% size:53% AND THERE ARE SO MANY line:85% position:40% size:75% ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE HELPING line:85% position:22% size:55% THAT BECOME MORE EASY.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I THINK THAT YOU ARE GOING TO line:85% position:40% size:75% START TO SEE THAT ON OUR MENUS line:85% position:40% size:75% AND HOPEFULLY YOU ARE GOING TO line:85% position:36% size:73% SEE, I THINK YOU ARE GOING TO line:85% position:36% size:73% START TO SEE ALL THAT CANNING line:85% position:13% size:23% COMEBACK.

line:85% position:24% size:58% >> PEOPLE LOVE PICKLES.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> PICKLES ARE GREAT, Y'ALL.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:20% size:50% PEOPLE LOVE PICKLES.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT line:85% position:29% size:65% TIES-- EVERY CULTURE HAS A line:85% position:13% size:20% CULTURE.

line:85% position:25% size:60% >> IT'S OLD PRESERVATION line:85% position:14% size:28% TECHNIQUES.

line:85% position:50% size:80% HAD YOU TO PICKLE BECAUSE IT WAS line:85% position:44% size:78% THE WAY BEFORE REFRIGERATION TO line:85% position:18% size:45% KEEP YOUR PRODUCE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I THINK THAT THAT IS THANK FLY, line:85% position:33% size:70% LIKE IT'S NOT IT'S SOMETHING line:85% position:36% size:73% WE'VE ALWAYS DONE, SO I THINK line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT YOU ARE GOING TO START TO line:85% position:50% size:80% SEE THAT MORE AND MORE IMPORTANT line:85% position:33% size:70% COMING INTO THE CONVERSATION line:85% position:17% size:40% AGAIN AND AGAIN.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE THINGS line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT WE'VE DONE AND THAT WE ARE line:85% position:44% size:78% GOOD AT DOING AS KENTUCKIANS, I line:85% position:50% size:80% DONE THINK THE REST OF THE WORLD line:85% position:18% size:45% HAS SEEN THAT YET.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I REALLY DON'T TOP CHEF CAN ONLY line:85% position:15% size:33% SHOW SO MUCH.

line:85% position:44% size:78% TV SHOWS CAN ONLY SHOW SO MUCH.

line:85% position:44% size:78% BUT I THINK PEOPLE ARE GOING TO line:85% position:44% size:78% FIGURE OUT WHAT WE'VE GOT GOING line:85% position:13% size:20% ON HERE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> I THINK THEY JUST NEED TO line:85% position:14% size:28% COME VISIT.

line:85% position:15% size:33% >> I DO, TOO.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> THEY ARE COMING TO VISIT AND line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY'RE COMING TO VISIT BECAUSE line:85% position:14% size:28% OF BOURBON.

line:85% position:19% size:48% I MEAN YOU GUYS,... line:85% position:40% size:75% >> BUT YOU ARE STARTING TO SEE line:85% position:40% size:75% PEOPLE CAN UM TO VISIT BECAUSE line:85% position:13% size:20% OF FOOD.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> BECAUSE OF BOURBON AND THE line:85% position:36% size:73% FOOD KEEPS THEM AND HOW DO WE line:85% position:17% size:40% KEEP THAT GOING?

line:85% position:33% size:70% HOW DO WE CAPITALIZE ON FOOD line:85% position:13% size:20% TOURISM.

line:85% position:36% size:73% HOW DO WE TELL THE STORIES OF line:85% position:13% size:23% KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:20% size:50% IF YOU HAD TO NAME-- line:85% position:25% size:60% >> EMBRACE AND INNOVATE.

line:85% position:25% size:60% >> EMBRACE AND INNOVATE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> HOW DO YOU TELL THE STORY OF line:85% position:15% size:35% KENTUCKY FOOD.

line:85% position:17% size:43% >> WELCOME TABLE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% JUST THE TABLE IS WELCOME TO ALL line:85% position:29% size:65% AND ALL-- Y'ALL MEANS ALL.

line:85% position:25% size:60% >> T-SHIRTS COMING SOON.

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> KENTUCKY TO THE WORLD.

line:85% position:13% size:20% >> BOOM.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> OKAY, SO WE ARE GOING TO END line:85% position:24% size:58% IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES.

line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT WE ARE GOING TO ASK-- WE ARE line:85% position:50% size:80% ASKING OURSELVES A BIG ASK, LIKE line:85% position:36% size:73% WE ARE ASKING OF OURSELVES TO line:85% position:50% size:80% CONSTANTLY BE REPRESENTATIVES OF line:85% position:31% size:68% KENTUCKY AND TO BE OUR BEST line:85% position:29% size:65% SELVES AS WE SHOWCASE THIS line:85% position:12% size:15% STATE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I'M GOING TO ASK THESE FINE, line:85% position:14% size:30% FINE CHEFS-- line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I GAVE HER FIVE BUCKS TO SAY line:85% position:11% size:13% THAT.

line:85% position:13% size:23% >> I DID.

line:85% position:21% size:53% >> I GOT $15 ALL DAY.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> YOU ONLY SAID TWO FINES.

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> THESE FINE, FINE, FINE line:85% position:12% size:18% LADIES.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AND SO WE ARE GOING TO TALK line:85% position:29% size:65% ABOUT HOW WE CONTINUE THIS line:85% position:36% size:73% CONVERSATION, BUT WHAT WE ARE line:85% position:36% size:73% GOING TO ASK OF EVERYBODY OUT line:85% position:44% size:78% HERE IS THAT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE line:85% position:17% size:40% A VOICE IN FOOD.

line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT'S NOT YOUR SPACE TO-- I line:85% position:17% size:43% MEAN IT MIGHT BE.

line:85% position:15% size:33% IT MIGHT NOT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% WE WOULD LIKE FOR EVERYBODY TO line:85% position:40% size:75% REALLY THINK ABOUT THEIR PLACE line:85% position:50% size:80% IN THIS STATE AND THEIR PLACE IN line:85% position:18% size:45% THIS CONVERSATION.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND TO ACTIVELY THINK OF A WAY line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT YOU CAN HELP CHANGE THE line:85% position:50% size:80% PERCEPTION OF KENTUCKY, IN A WAY line:85% position:29% size:65% THAT YOU CAN HELP GROW THE line:85% position:44% size:78% UNDERSTANDING OF THIS WONDERFUL line:85% position:40% size:75% STATE AND THEN ON THE WAY OUT, line:85% position:31% size:68% MEET TWO NEW PEOPLE BECAUSE line:85% position:40% size:75% Y'ALL, WE ALL LIKE EACH OTHER.

line:85% position:22% size:55% IT'S LIKE GOOD PEOPLE.

line:85% position:19% size:48% WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SO NIKKIA, 2020, WHAT DO YOU DO line:85% position:27% size:63% TO HELP RAISE THE VIEW OF line:85% position:13% size:23% KENTUCKY?

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> 2020 I AM LIKE WHAT AM I line:85% position:50% size:80% CURRENTLY DOING OR AM I GOING TO line:85% position:11% size:8% DO?

line:85% position:19% size:48% RIGHT NOW I'M HERE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT IN THE FUTURE, I JUST HOPE line:85% position:40% size:75% TO KIND OF EDUCATE MY STUDENTS line:85% position:31% size:68% LIKE WE MENTIONED A MILLION line:85% position:15% size:33% TIMES BEFORE.

line:85% position:15% size:35% I'M A TEACHER.

line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT'S WHAT I SPEND 90% OF MY line:85% position:31% size:68% WEEK DOING, IS TEACHING AND line:85% position:33% size:70% INTERACTING WITH MY KIDS AND line:85% position:29% size:65% JUST MAKING SURE THAT THEY line:85% position:24% size:58% UNDERSTAND THEY'RE FROM line:85% position:44% size:78% SOMEWHERE THEY CAN BE PROUD OF, line:85% position:11% size:10% TOO.

line:85% position:27% size:63% YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE FROM line:85% position:27% size:63% ATLANTA OR LOS ANGELES OR line:85% position:36% size:73% NEW YORK CITY TO BE SOMEBODY.

line:85% position:25% size:60% YOU CAN BE SOMEBODY FROM line:85% position:21% size:53% LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:25% size:60% YOU CAN BE SOMEBODY FROM line:85% position:14% size:28% APPALACHIA.

line:85% position:33% size:70% IF THAT'S THEIR FOOD, GREAT.

line:85% position:15% size:33% IF NOT, OKAY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% HOW ARE YOU GOING TO BE GREAT?

line:85% position:24% size:58% INFLUENCING THOSE GUYS.

line:85% position:16% size:38% THAT'S MY PLAN.

line:85% position:15% size:33% >> VERY GOOD.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> YEAH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, IN line:85% position:36% size:73% MY NECK OF THE WOODS, EASTERN line:85% position:33% size:70% KENTUCKY, I WANT TO SEE MORE line:85% position:50% size:80% FARM-TO-TABLE, MORE RESTAURANTS, line:85% position:40% size:75% MORE COMMUNITY DRIVEN AND CHEF line:85% position:19% size:48% DRIVEN RESTAURANTS.

line:85% position:25% size:60% AND REALLY START DRIVING line:85% position:33% size:70% ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THAT line:85% position:33% size:70% AREA SO PEOPLE WILL COME AND line:85% position:31% size:68% VISIT US BECAUSE MAN, THOSE line:85% position:17% size:43% MOUNTAINS, Y'ALL.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THOUGH WILL SING TO YOU AND YOU line:85% position:15% size:35% CAN SING BACK.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I DON'T THINK YOU WANT ME TO line:85% position:13% size:25% SING BACK.

line:85% position:13% size:23% >> WE DO.

line:85% position:12% size:15% WE DO.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> MY HUSBAND SAYS SOMETHING line:85% position:25% size:60% REALLY FUNNY THAT REALLY line:85% position:31% size:68% RESONATES WITH ME AND IT IS line:85% position:50% size:80% LEAVE EVERYTHING BETTER THAN HOW line:85% position:15% size:33% YOU FOUND IT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO line:85% position:50% size:80% TRAVEL WITH WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING line:85% position:50% size:80% A LOT AND I GET TO MEET A LOT OF line:85% position:16% size:38% AMAZING PEOPLE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SO I WANT TO BRING THEM HOME.

line:85% position:29% size:65% I WANT TO BRING THEM HERE.

line:85% position:25% size:60% I WANT TO SHOW THEM WHAT line:85% position:31% size:68% KENTUCKY IS ALL ABOUT AND I line:85% position:31% size:68% GUARANTEE YOU EVERYONE I'VE line:85% position:44% size:78% BROUGHT THROUGH SO FAR HAS BEEN line:85% position:13% size:25% SURPRISED.

line:85% position:31% size:68% SO MORE PLEASANT SURPRISES.

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