Ellie
California Love
LAist Studios
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Eleuteria “Ellie” Hernández moved to Los Angeles from a small town in Mexico when she was 14 and fell in love with the city. In this episode, Walter sits down with Ellie, his mother, to understand her relationship to L.A. and how it shaped his own.
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| 1:05.1 | Arrode Blanco, style of my mom. Are we speaking in Spanish today? No. I mean, I'm cool with that. |
| 1:12.6 | This is my mom, Eluteria Hernandez. |
| 1:15.6 | Her friends call her Ellie. |
| 1:17.6 | She's one of my best friends, a big homie, big sister, and so much more. |
| 1:22.6 | I made rice the same style as my mom used to make it. |
| 1:29.4 | Usually, you know, when we eat white rice, it's just white. |
| 1:33.3 | But my mama will put a little bit of milk and onion and garlic and one chili. |
| 1:41.6 | And it's really delicious. |
| 1:43.6 | Not a lot of milk. Just a a little drop my mom and i are sitting |
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