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Biscuits & Jam

Samantha Fore’s Culinary Family

Biscuits & Jam

Meredith Corporation

Music Interviews, Arts, Food, Music

4.8608 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living Magazine, chats with Lexington, KY-based chef Samantha Fore about her culinary journey, having founded the thriving restaurant pop-up Tuk Tuk Sri Lankan Bites in 2016. The pair also discuss Samantha’s unique and personal twists on deviled eggs and fried chicken, as well as which country music hero will always eat for free at Tuk Tuk. For more info visit: southernliving.com/biscuitsandjam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.8

Being Southern is a life for me.

0:30.6

It is how I carry myself.

0:32.3

It is how I want to lead.

0:34.4

For a long time, I had this little mantra,

0:37.1

and it's just like, work hard and be nice

0:38.5

to people. And that has been my mantra since April of 2016. And if it's taken me this far and the

0:45.5

South has carried me this far, I don't think I need to change anything. I just need to be a little bit more

0:50.7

Southern.

1:03.1

Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

1:06.6

I'm Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living magazine.

1:19.3

My guest this week is a first-generation Sri Lankan American from Kentucky, who has found her calling by turning traditional southern foods like deviled eggs and fried chicken into something all her own.

1:25.3

And along the way, she tells me that other South Asian chefs who have planted their roots in the southern U.S.

1:28.2

have given her a family she didn't know she needed.

1:35.6

We are all home in the South, all of the immigrants. We are all home. And so for us to embrace that as minorities, especially a time like now, it feels like a radical act. And I'm kind of okay

1:42.3

with that, because we need something to spur some sort of positive

1:46.5

change. In 2016, Samantha 4 founded her pop-up restaurant Tuck-Tuck Sri Lankan Bites in Lexington, Kentucky,

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