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[00:00.38] Mike: So Dusty-

[00:02.13] Dusty: Uh-huh.

[00:03.63] Mike: Tell me a little about - you're from Philadelphia, right?

[00:05.88] Dusty: Yeah, yeah.

[00:07.13] Mike: Tell me a little bit about - soul food.

[00:09.38] Dusty: Okay. So soul food - actually, it comes from the South, and Philadelphia has a lot of great soul food restaurants.

[00:16.13] What soul food is, most of it comes from back in slave days, you know.

[00:20.88] Slaves, they can't get the really good cuts of the meat or the good parts.

[00:23.88] They got the kind of leftovers or the thrown away stuff.

[00:26.13] Mike: Right.

[00:27.63] Dusty: They had to learn how to make it into something a bit better.

[00:29.88] Mike: Right.

[00:30.88] Dusty: So it's just kind of good, hearty eating. Most of it is cooked - it's not really the healthiest food - a lot of it is cooked in butter, or fried up in lard.

[00:38.13] Mike: Right. So can you give me some examples of like some soul food dishes maybe, and what's inside it?

[00:46.63] Dusty: So, of course, the classic ones are things like fried chicken or chitlin. And chitlin is basically like stewed pig intestines of seasoning.

[00:54.38] Mike: It's tasty.

[00:55.88] Dusty: Yeah. It's not something I like, but some people enjoy it.

[00:57.88] Mike: Right.

[00:59.13] Dusty: And then, there's also things like collard greens, yams, mashed potatoes - a lot of things you see all the time - biscuits.

[01:08.88] These are all things that are like soul food.

[01:11.38] Mike: Just curious, does it differ by region? Like for example, you're from Philadelphia, which is further north.

[01:17.38] Do you get different types of soul food if you go like further towards the south, like the Cajun parts, let's say Louisiana or something?

[01:24.38] Dusty: Well, Cajun food's a bit different, but as you travel down south, you start seeing differences.

[01:29.88] Like where I was from in the States, we almost never had chitlins in the north, because it was just something that wasn't very appetizing.

[01:36.13] Or chicken feet is another one, pig's feet - food like that just wasn't as popular.

[01:41.88] But as you go down south, you get back to the roots of it more, and so you start finding more restaurants that sell these kinds of things.

[01:47.13] Mike: Interesting.

[01:48.38] Dusty: Yeah. I still can't eat it. It's horrible, but--

[01:51.88] Mike: Interesting. So is there a particular favorite kind of soul food dish that you like?

[01:59.13] Dusty: Oh, I still love collard greens. One of the things that when I was younger, I didn't like them so much;

[02:04.38] as I got older, I enjoyed them. It's almost like a kind of spinach basically.

[02:07.63] Mike: Okay.

[02:08.88] Dusty: But it's kind of a bit more flavored and spicier.

[02:10.88] Mike: Wow.

[02:11.88] Dusty: Yeah. And macaroni and cheese I love, of course.

[02:13.63] Mike: Wow! Right on.