i am so excited to be here at one hundred and ten street across from the park at miss mamie spoon bread to restaurant with my long time friend norma jean garden and we go way back so let's talk about how you really were inspired to and talk about spoon bread and survey why and how that all came about actually you were the inspiration for this because when modeling and when we were collaborating on your fashion shows you said to me open a talk about spoon bread and server and one hundred all come about the writing of the book well we were i was modeling at the time and kara was working for well with school for boys after modeling and after i worked in your show room  you told me i should open a restaurant and i was inspired by that and so that's what came out someone really listened i can't believe i listened to you all but now talk about how school very came about well i was modeling and i was with the at a party that maxine mckendrick gave who was the food editor of vogue and she asked me about who why relatives were and i told her that my grandfather was born a slave and was we when he was nine years old wow she reacted well you must have a lot of great recipes and you should write a cookbook and that was how it all started because i told carole and she realized that we didn't have a lot of recipes and we didn't know how to make them and we used to give the big picnic that you remember other would roast the pig or do ribs we didn't know how to do it ourselves so that started a seven year journey to collect recipes and to get them committed to paper and that's how the book started and this is the book that started it all bread and strawberry wine recipes and reminiscences from a black family by carol and norman dart and you traveled all over the country all over the to searching for relatives and recipes and that you test all of these yourself yes and that's how i went from a model which i think it's funny we were the st to kind of do a diary kind of a cookbook and it started a trend that continues to today absolutely have been in print for twenty seven years and you can buy the book right here in school in britain yes which i think is fantastic and the fact just continues and this is and you know it just keeps evolving in terms of you know the fact that people can come here not only taste the food like this beautiful food we have mac and cheese cornbread well that's the most important thing i mean people come here looking for this and you get great abundance on the on the plate for me i would say it's too much food because i don't have much but meanwhile the kids who come here from colombia you know they love to eat the young and meanwhile it's two meals for them so it's great you know that you serve and we get a lot of visitors from out of the country who are looking for a typical american meal right and you had president manager is david c both doing very well and you know the fact that people will either come here or go there or go to both because they know the food and the quality is important and that's and they're going to get the same quality no matter where they go and i brides and grooms they can well that's a new trend someone's open to divorce hotel where they can have everything resolved very quickly this is like a whole new trend now so maybe they'll be a whole divorce thing but we're not talking about that now we're talking about the positive things of people staying married and graduation that retirement than happy could be a part of really the most important moments of people's lives memorable yes experience not only having your food but coming here and sharing your history you know and the fact that you know all this started as you said quite a few centuries ago and in your catering you have corporations  deal with as well yes we've been blessed to have some very nice clients from all over from everywhere and we started the channel thirteen quite accidentally i took the kids there for friend who had done film that they were celebrating there and the event manager liked it and she hired us to work there and we never advertised but our whole business came that little amazing actually amazing but another thing that we have not talked didn't pan out luck and landed in the food business well this is a wonderful business and it's a wonderful experience and i think anyone who comes here and shares your food and your sensibility about food and history oh my god that's too far in the past we're just travelling around the world and enjoying it and tasting lots of food and you know what we don't taste this you know this is something we come here for and that's very special yes home cooking that's right well thank you again chasing wild as it's not what you're thinking it's a narrative my travel around the world i have interspersed photos and recipes to whet your appetite and allow you to dream discover and rediscover these great destinations the title came about while i was in college while sanctuary chasing jackasses in india chasing wild ass is adventure it's color mary it's history and it's a life style chasing wild ass is adventure chasing a book is more than five hundred pages exploring the world remember my world is your world so get up get out and travel so delighted to be here it's bread miss mamie's on one hundred and ten st a best for southern cooking and i'm sitting here with peter govern ali and he's going to explain his great his great wines i had a wonderful experience of tasting some of these at my book party which was for chasing wild ass which is a narrative of my travel and one wonderful thing about the vodka is that it goes down even though you may have one too many that's for you to thinking healthy and i think that's a good thing because you know today everyone's so health conscious and i think that and everybody's weight conscious and i think all of these things really make a difference this in a very very short period of time it's fantastic so this can actually be bought around the country and terms of distribution we are currently in three states right now will be in eight states very shortly and then our goal to be in all fifty states  and when they come to the st street space for the other thing is that the great thing about the taste of the wine and apparently all of these are from european sources you know the grapes and also you know the different different items but your unique value oriented cool package and price wise it's had value so you're talking price wise too so it's very competitive to other but because of the winds and competitive everything else here that's a very good thing because i and passionfruit and blue curacao but they're all natural juices right this reminds me of why when i think of blue i think of a wife and i should think that you know again another why you being one of the other states or whatever it is that should go over very well into why i think all of these a terrific and they're colorful which you know when you think of and they are good some are drinks as well as seasonal drinks and i think that everyone should certainly be able to enjoy and laidback we actually own brands ok so a brand owner my brother and i and our partners were have been in the liquor and wine business for many years brokering brands and we were forced to handle brands that was successful but since  the pink one is passion fruit in sunny is egg so cognac with passion fruit juice lotus is a vodka from italy it is made with your ping corn sold gluten free to something that was new and i think they're going to be out looking for this when they go to the stores because they had the experience as we all had the great experience of tasting these wonderful product that that's exactly right it's about getting them out there and getting people i'm always traveling on the road as you know globe trotter so i'm always going in and looking for great things and bringing them back to new york and introducing people to it it's not what you're thinking it's a narrative my travel around the world i have interspersed photos and recipes to whet your appetite and allow you to dream discover and we discover these great destinations the title came about while i was in college while more than five hundred pages exploring the worlds remember my world is your world so get up get out and travel leo you know you've invited me to the r and down here in new york so many what that makes a lot of sense and people from portugal migrated here and they brought their culture with them their food there why i'm sitting here with a new friend and this is all of it at  you know it's nice that you have a solid business where people come back and they repeat because it's good food and good food is so important when i heard my friend leo told me about the suckling pig and the fact that you have it here i was amazed i thought oh my god this is an experience i've got to have and i understand that you do some of the best fortune he's for his work and you're from portugal become full of books go to one of those and where exactly in portugal people are about soccer little football as i say but you know what's so exciting is the fact that you have a solid business here and people can come to the iron bout and they will experience what they if they can't afford to go to portugal they certainly can come right across the water you know they've got a struggling big every bullshit food shall tell me how did you get into making suckling pig i mean how did you come about is because of the tradition of portugal and you decided to carry it on in your restaurant which i think it's fantastic and make it was sixty five dollars very well you know what's so incredible is you keep the tradition and you do it in the the stone of it of the brick oven yes so i mean that's the way to do it you know they sauce and i think the whole thing of that we experience was going through the the producer's retina the other property and seeing how the winds are produced which is just amazing you know and they have such a passion for it's so convenient coming out of the i am bound is like a fifteen minute ride and you can take the tube and you can be here within a few minutes ahead of bucking up and the restaurant has a parking lot yeah if you want to drive but you can also take the to a lot of people in the city don't drive so if they take you know the public transportation it's so convenient you get off a new or you walk down ferry street you know it's interesting that the pig is such a national dish fresh they're not those frozen things you know which i hate unbelievable and it's made with pepper and friendly neighbor there's so many great restaurants great people and the tradition is still carried on i can't wait until more people get out here and share the experience that i've had until next week i'm gon drive i hope to see you next week for another adventure around the world