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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