Helen, did you know when you enter the eater Upsell Studios to talk to me today that actually it is

Donut Day, it's National Donut Day?

Which nation?

That's a really good question. I guess America. Oh America

every day is National Donut Day in America.

Welcome to the eater upsell. My name is Greg Morobito. I'm Helen Rosner.

And today we're going to be talking to one of the legends of New Orleans cuisine, Mr. John Besh.

But before we do that, Helen, there's something

I wanted to talk with you about.

That sounds like you're going to break up with me.

I always feel like you should just celebrate food every day. I know that sounds so

silly but why do you need to celebrate one specific food on one specific day

because it's written on some

arcane calendar that nobody has access to that means nothing. It's very

fascist. And then PR people and food groups, food companies, they're just looking for ways to promote their products.

So they find this weird calendar that was written in the 70s or 60s or something and then they realize that this day you know that

Linden Johnson once signed a piece of paper that said let's celebrate tomatoes

on this day because it's to support the tomato farmers I think that that's

like the actual original like acts of you know and I think that's true like the

president in Congress will sometimes be like you know we declare today like Greg more

a Bido day because he has performed great service to podcasting community.

What day is that? Tomorrow I shouldn't have told you we have a party planned. Oh yes. But But like, yeah, I mean, and I think I think actually that's true too, like you and I and a lot of other people kind of do what we do for a living uniquely loathe food days because 85% of our email inboxes are PR people who are just

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