Southern Cooking, Via Gujarat And Oakland

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Today, we talk with two chefs who are putting their own stamp on Southern food, each refusing to be pigeonholed in the process. Vishwesh Bhatt was born and raised in Gujarat, India. He moved to Oxford, Mississippi, for graduate school and quickly embraced the region in his cooking, and his identity. Tanya Holland has family roots in Virginia and Louisiana, but she's not originally from there.

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0:00.0	I've heard you say that people don't seem to balk when Thomas Keller, for instance,
0:06.1	a very famous world-renowned white chef serves fried chicken at one of his restaurants,
0:12.2	charging $30.
0:14.0	More than what you were charging.
0:15.7	No one seems to blink at that.
0:17.4	No, it's true.
0:18.4	I mean, obviously he's an amazing chef who I respect a lot, but it's also in Napa and
0:24.7	wine country and people look at that location versus West Oakland.
0:30.1	They just have an idea in their mind of what they should be spending.
0:33.7	Who's fried chicken's better, Tonya?
0:35.7	Well, my fried chicken's better.
0:37.7	Of course.
0:39.9	This is the sportful.
0:47.3	It's not for foodies, it's for eaters.
0:49.0	I'm Dan Pashman.
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