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Hello, hello, and welcome to Food Network Obsessed.

This is the podcast where we dish on all things food with your favorite chefs, food

influencers, and food network stars.

I'm your host, Jamie Sire, and today we have a Food Network star winner, bringing her

Southern charm to the table and championing the

power of female friendships. She's a chef, cookbook author, and host of Outrageous Pumpkins.

It's Damaris Phillips.

Damaris, welcome to the podcast.

I think last time I saw you, you were slinging sloppy joes at Super Bowl.

It's good to have you on the podcast finally.

How have you been?

I've been doing great.

I'm so excited to be here.

I love the podcast.

I love you. You're always so much fun. and you're always the podcast and the conversations you have. People are always so like you always learn a little bit about people. So I'm just, I'm glad for you. Ready, dig in. Okay. Let's do it. Crack this brain open. Yes, let's do it. We are going to get into the exciting new season of outrageous pumpkins.

But first, I want to take it back and just kind of, you know, reset, you know, inform people about your culinary journey.

Growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, how did your southern roots really influence your cooking style?

Yeah. So we, it's a, I'm a very interesting in the part of the country that we're in, because Kentucky is, for everyone else, is considered southern.

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