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Jamie Oliver meets jazz musician and cook, Kermit, in New Orleans – Jamie’s American Road Trip


00:00:24this karmic space okay your Kermit

00:00:31you’re the famous you’ve got a

00:00:39reputation

00:00:47everybody’s got a running stall so

00:00:50Jessica fly-in camera but wherever

00:01:01you’re eatin it’s doing you good so is

00:01:06it true that when you’re doing a gig

00:01:08tonight on you I’m playing with a big

00:01:14Sam pumpkin nation this is another band

00:01:17I really never played with before you’re

00:01:24famous for doing barbecues it whatever

00:01:25cake you do enable my banners Kermit

00:01:28Ruffins right in a barbecue swingers

00:01:30I’m the barbecue swingers you’re a

00:01:35working musician you’ve got your mobile

00:01:37barbecue rolls-royce and your own bar

00:01:39never thought I’d see quail in New

00:01:42Orleans I don’t I want well maybe

00:01:44because I am a lot of times for the New

00:01:46Orleans Saints the Saints games I cook a

00:01:48lot of queer yeah it’s different yeah

00:01:51just try to do something different all –

00:01:53New Orleans is a massively foodie City

00:01:55and they take it seriously and I asked

00:02:00one of the gauges that were stuck at

00:02:01least noises I said how many your

00:02:02friends could

00:02:06something about new volumes in the brook

00:02:08they grow up in the kitchen most of the

00:02:11time yeah families just gather to the

00:02:13kids in the kitchens the most important

00:02:15realization because this is a

00:02:19homogeneous

00:02:25boundaries right around the corner from

00:02:28here Campbell’s quick this is an

00:02:32incredible this is an incredible piece

00:02:34of coon that’s cooking at 160 that’s

00:02:37cooking at 200

00:02:38what’s this cooking it over yeah 120

00:02:46machine so what’s the score you start

00:02:48serving all your buddies now did you

00:02:53sell it to him is it all part of the

00:02:55service you always give it away

00:03:12so is it just friends put money in the

00:03:14kitty and you go get some stuff do we

00:03:17serve I’m happy to man so who’s that for

00:03:32that’s for me to tuck into cheers

00:03:35brother

00:03:35jeez I only had free meals tonight

00:03:44probably 11 years old grandmother in the

00:03:47kitchen down in the Lower Ninth Ward

00:03:52what was your grandmother’s what’s your

00:03:54family’s history where where in the

00:03:56world did they come from to get to New

00:03:57Orleans

00:04:10to pierce a room grandmother’s bed

00:04:21but gnarly my mom spiders all

00:04:26african-american the Ruffins family your

00:04:38last name yes so not only is the food

00:04:42completely mixed but actually the family

00:04:45the blood is also the Gumbel to show one

00:04:48big melon big humble a Gumbel means a

00:04:51mixture of everything yeah

00:04:54how important food for the new wadiyan

00:04:55gang wall is in in jazz

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