"[man speaking in Afrikaans] I've found that fire." "When you really think about it... it is something that brings people together." "At night it gets cold and dark." "If the fire is small it's hard to get warm, but the bigger the fire is, the warmer it is." "So fire makes people huddle around, to talk and tell stories." "The glow of the flames draws people in, bringing them closer together." "[sizzling] [indistinct chatter]" "[man speaking in Afrikaans] I must say," "I think South Africans are the best braaiers." "I think we are on top in the world when it comes to putting the best meat on the table for our friends at the end of the day." "[in English] Listen, when I started working, they didn't even have computers." "[in Afrikaans] Braai in South Africa, first and foremost, is about good conversation." "Secondly, about very good meat." "Thirdly about lots of voggies." "Um..." "But even just to get together and be merry." "That's, obviously, what it's really about at the end of the day." "To have a lekker time." "[indistinct chatter]" "Lekker is lekker , that's all there is to it." "That's what it means, it's lekker to visit your friends, or this food is lekker ." "Braai is lekker, because we drink!" "[chatter continues]" "[in English] Go!" "Yes!" "[man speaking in Afrikaans] Townships were first built around the 1950s." "It was a way of segregating black people from white people." "As time went by, and freedom arrived, townships changed, and have become a place where black people can have fun." "Barbecuing is something that black people and white people have always done." "Barbecuing used to be something you did just for fun." "Now it is something people can make a business out of." "[in Afrikaans] I found this place and cleaned it up by myself." "Before me, it was a dump." "There was dirt, rubbish and diapers." "But I saw it as a spot where I could work." "I started with rusted corrugated iron." "And people thought, "What good can come from here?"" "[indistinct chatter] [sizzling]" "I want people to see that you can always find a way to make a living." "They must know that God gave them hands, a brain and ears." "And when He gave you these things, it wasn't for someone else." "You can't give your hands away like a spade, or a fork." "You need to work for yourself." "[man speaking in Afrikaans] It's lekker." "It's primal." "The fact that you're standing around a fire, braaiing a raw piece of meat." "What I really like about organizing a big braai is the opportunity to meet new people." "People are not necessarily friends and they don't necessarily stay friends but they can interact." "[indistinct chatter]" "[sizzling]" "Unfortunately, growing up with an Afrikaans upbringing..." "I was 18 years old towards the end of the Apartheid." "I was raised to fear black South Africans." "Um, although it wasn't intentional, we were all raised with this idea that it was dangerous to know black people." "Everyone treated black people as if they were inferior, um, as if they couldn't do the same things that white people did." "Um, which is unfortunate, because as children, you're easily influenced in the way you think." "Obviously, when you're a teenager, you start to think differently." "Luckily for me, things started changing." "You make up your own mind, and you start to figure out that people are just people." "Every person has the right to be who they are, and to be respected." "Every person has a story about who they are, or how they behave." "Respect for who people are, understanding where they come from, makes it easier for people to get along." "To give people a chance to be who they are, free of any judgment." "[serene instrumental music playing]" "[in Japanese] It's a cyclical lifestyle." "Mmm." "One's own state of living... is cyclical." "That's what I wanted to obtain." "Since coming here, what is really important for living" "and the ability to live without excess..." "That has become clearer and clearer... to me." "[inaudible]" "Every leaf is its own god." "Every tree is a god." "The mountain itself is a god." "With that in mind," "I receive the trees from the mountain." "I give them my best regards and ask that I am not injured by them." "And then I do my work." "[chainsaw buzzing]" "There was an article in some magazine about the charcoal maker here and I wanted to see it in reality." "So I came and visited." "And I made the decision right there that this was the place." "I was in pursuit of beauty, and of functionality." "[vehicle approaching]" "We cut down the wood and prepare it." "Then we put the wood into the kiln and seal it up." "After, underneath the kiln, there's something called a "kogama."" "We start the fire there." "Inside it is like a roast." "Then we leave it, for about a month." "During that time, the raw wood above almost completely dries out." "The raw wood is inherently flammable, of course." "So when it reaches a certain temperature, the heat breaks it down" "and it turns to carbon." "This white charcoal is called "binchotan."" "[indistinct chatter]" "[sizzling]" "[man speaking in Japanese] Saying "I enjoy, playing with fire" sounds strange... but I do enjoy cooking with a flame." "At some point, I just became crazy about cooking yakitori and I've now been doing it for 32 years." "Hmm." "[indistinct chatter]" "I just know that I enjoy raising the temperature." "The hotter the flame, the more delicious the yakitori." "So I want to use a quality binchotan." "Would you call it a fight?" "Yeah, it's a fight." "The temperature must be high." "To achieve this high temperature, you must let in air." "You need lots of air." "Grilling is a simple task, but your timing has to be spot on." "Perfecting it is truly difficult, and it takes a long time." "[indistinct chatter]" "Put simply, yakitori is anything pierced onto a skewer." "It's a very simple food." "But the heat at which you cook is the thing." "By adding sake, you draw out the sweetness and umami." "I believe it's the most simple, but also most profound food." "With tebasaki, or chicken wings, the skin must be crispy." "The oil between the skin and the meat is delicious." "So, if the temperature is low, the oil runs off." "And if the temperature is high, it becomes crispy." "But if you add sake, it turns a beautiful color." "And to get that crispy, juicy meat, you have to use binchotan and sake." "With breast meat it's a part without much oil." "So after cooking, you add soy sauce and wasabi." "As for the innards, they're quite an acquired taste." "So with things like liver, I coat it with tare sauce before cooking." "It's also very easy to eat with karashi mustard." "Yakitori is a food brimming with creativity." "You can have very cheap yakitori restaurants, and you can have this kind of fine-dining restaurant." "You can have cheap yakitori places in an alleyway or you can make it into a dining restaurant in New York, London, or Paris." "With yakitori, people connect, it's a friendly feeling." "You can say, "lets go to yakitori,"" "and just go casually down to the restaurant." "It doesn't matter if it's expensive or not." "It's a friendly atmosphere, and you can chat about absolutely anything." "[indistinct chatter]" "Yakitori is definitely something that's for the people." "Perhaps it's something primal." "Using flames to grill meat, and all eating together." "It's something our ancestors might have done." "I wonder if we have that in our DNA." "Cooking the meat you caught on an open fire, all eating together." "It's along the same lines." "Using fire to cook meat is perhaps something only humans do." "That may well be the beginning of the human race." "That's something special." "I've never really thought of it before, but talking about it now, that's what I think." "[in English] Hard work, huh?" "I was brought up in the country," "I was brought up in Mount Barker, when it was a country town." "And I went to the city for that particular period of my life." "Managed to get on all right." "Made a lot of money through the city." "Had my own business and all that sort of stuff." "At the end of the day, the city wasn't my cup of tea, so I left." "I had many, many good times in the city and I also had lot of hard times in the city." "But to me, the city's dead and gone." "I had my time there, I've come back here..." "Country's me." "Well, here we've got no traffic lights for a start off." "Got some really good mates here." "Everybody knows everybody." "You can't even go down the street without someone waving or saying "G'day" to you, you know." "[man speaking in English] You know, I like taking something old and making it new again." "It's a joy!" "You come across something that's absolutely pretty well stuffed and fucked, and you turn around and you completely refurnish it." "Then you look at that product, and you go, "Fuck me drunk, I did that!"" "You ain't going to get any better self satisfaction than that." "[scrubbing]" "[indistinct chatter]" "I've been a pub man all my life." "And I'll probably die being a pub man." "Some pubs you can go into and you get ignored, and you get snubbed off and all that sort of shit." "Not the Corny." "You know, everyone's got a smile on their dial, "G'day, how're you going?"" "Whether you're a stranger or not a bloody stranger, you know, you say, "G'day" to everybody." "All right, and that's a country pub." "You greet people with friendship, you're going to get friendship back." "You treat 'em with agro, you're going to get agro back." "Friendship's the better way to go." "And that's the Corny Hotel to me." "Because we all kick back, all crack a joke, you know." "Some clean, some dirty." "Not many clean ones, a lot of dirty ones..." "But we still have a good time, you know." "And that's what it's all about, having some fun, kick a barbecue in the guts." "It's probably the only pub in Australia that ever does it." "[indistinct]" "They put it on every Saturday and every Sunday, you know, for us patrons." "And to those who turn up, have a good morning." "They get nice cold beer, the pub gets supported, and they're getting fed." "[sizzling]" "Yeah, it is easy." "Until someone changes the program and puts some bloody kebabs or something stupid like that on, you know, that you don't know how to cook." "That throws the whole barbecue right out of line." "Chops, sausages, google eggs, a bit of onion, and bread and butter, salt and pepper, dead horse." "That's it." "That's the barbecue." "I'd like to see salmon patties on there, but no one's done that yet." "Nah, just bacon, eggs, snags." "Just your basic shit." "That's what a barbecue is." "It's not like putting a hangi down, where you've got to spend hours and hours." "Barbecue, you should be able to start it up, crank it up." "Over and done with in half an hour, everybody's sitting down having a feed." "As long as you've got someone decent cooking!" "[sizzling]" "Hey..." "Hey, how are you?" "G'day, Stewy!" "It's not so much the tucker." "The tucker's nice, yeah." "It's the atmosphere that stands around the barbecue." "You've got people talking to people." "You have women talking to women, blokes talking to blokes, you've got blokes talking to women." "How many marriages have been made at a barbecue?" "And where people have met?" "Yeah, it's friendship." "It's friendship." "That's what barbecues do." "That's what they do to people, they bring 'em together." "You meet 'em, you say, "G'day."" "If a friendship forms, it forms." "If it doesn't form, you tell 'em to get fucked and send them on their bike." "That's the way it is." "That's a barbecue." "It brings people together." "All right?" "Well, that's, that's my opinion." "[man shouting in Mongolian and laughing]" "[woman speaking indistinctly]" "[crack]" "[man speaking in Mongolian] Countryside living generally is really nice." "Maybe because it's our ancestral land." "My grandfathers, my father, lived here." "Everything is wide open." "It's an open steppe grassland, where everything is calm." "If you speak in current trends, then there is no stress, and it's very serene." "Even your mind is much more relaxed." "In the city, it's different." "There's more pressure." "You have to do this, you have to do that." "Here, your main responsibility is herding animals." "There's not much else to worry about." "[motorcycle approaching]" "[bleating]" "The legend of the marmot is that, the marmot promised he'd never drink water, or eat grass, would never go out in the dark, would stay in his hole, and in order to keep his promise, he cut off his thumb." "[air hissing]" "I used to kill the marmot, and sell the fur and meat, in order to survive." "But now I hear the number of marmot is diminishing." "So this is why they've prohibited the hunting of marmot." "Firstly, you put two hot stones into the rear legs, and a big stone in the butt." "Then you put some meat, then two or three stones, then more meat, and more stones, until it's full." "Last time we used a sharp stone, it poked a hole through the skin." "Usually, we use a very rounded stone." "You open it up, sit down together, and eat." "[speaking in Mongolian]" "[speaking in Mongolian]" "Coming here from far away, finding a wife, having three beautiful children." "It really is the happiest thing in my life." "[wind howling]" "Personally, I've never made goat boodog on my own, but I think it will be okay." "I will make it tomorrow." "[grunting]" "[crackling]" "[indistinct chatter]" "Get it in the legs, in the legs!" "Keep those tongs away from me!" "[indistinct chatter]" "[indistinct chatter]" "[man speaking in Mongolian] Because you all gather, sit down and enjoy the boodog together, the meat tastes better." "[indistinct chatter]" "The main pleasure of the meal comes from eating it and sharing it together as a whole family, because you laugh, and smile, and talk." "That's the pleasure of sharing it with your family." "I am very proud that I am Mongolian." "Our ancestors said that we have ties to the sky." "So I am really proud that I am a Mongolian." "If there is such a thing as being reborn," "I'd like to be born as a Mongolian again." "[indistinct chatter] [in Swedish] Like this." "It becomes an extreme... form of depression when it's very cold for a long period." "You get tired, and feel down." "You don't have the happiness and willingness to do stuff, create stuff, be creative." "You get bunkered in, just laying around watching TV." "And the very second the sun starts shining, there's some kind of euphoria in people." "And in some way, you have to go out, you have to do stuff outside." "You have to take the opportunity to experience the sun, the warmth, for as long as you have it." "You have to fill up on sunlight, so that you have the memory of it for the rest of the year." "So, really when summer's near, the engangsgrill becomes hard currency." "The engangsgrill is practical." "It's a small box in which you have coal, and it comes with a flammable piece of paper." "So it's a complete grill set which is ready to be used." "It's very easy to engangsgrill, maybe that's why you do it." "It's a bit like the industrial revolution in a tin foil package." "You rip off the plastic wrapper, take out a match, and wait for 20 minutes." "And when the glow is grey, you can start grilling." "It's like a self-mounting tent, or a self-inflating pool bed." "It's ready to go." "It's that "ready-to-go" concept." "[indistinct chatter]" "Just light it in that corner." "[man 1 speaking in Swedish] Everyone grills." "There isn't really a certain personality that makes you grill, or not grill." "However, when you're in a group, there are different personalities and usually there will be one person who takes charge, who is the driving force." "And in my case, I don't know." "sometimes you become that driving force, to make sure things get done." "[man 2 speaking in Swedish] I don't think that there is anywhere in the whole world where you can find such sun-sick people as in Sweden." "So when the sun comes out after six months of absence, people are running out of their houses, just to get some sun on their face." "There's a certain vibe from sitting outside all night long." "until the sun rises extremely early , and it kind of gets romantic, in a way that only exists in summer." "Swedes are innovative and creative people, like Ikea, and that whole thing." "The only problem with it is, that you can't really regulate the coal and the heat, so when it goes out, you're fucked." "Us men are like whisky, which gets better with age, so to say." "But my life right now," "I feel like I'm on my way to being an adult." "But not adult enough to buy my own barbecue." "I'm incredibly fortunate to be able to do what I want, to live in a really great country and have a good start, and to have those possibilities." "[priest speaking in English] ...use this place either as buyers or sellers that are respecting justice and trying to consider themselves as working for the common good." "To find joy in contributing to the progress of the earthly city." "We ask this through Christ, our Lord." "Our Father, who art in heaven" "Holy be your name... [sizzling]" "[in Filipino] [voice-over] When I first killed a pig, it was not easy." "When I cut the pig's throat, it did not die quickly." "At first it was a big struggle, but now I can kill it easily." "You put the pig in a barrel with boiling water, and shave off its hair." "[indistinct chatter]" "Then you cut the pig down the middle, and take out its internal organs." "You put it on the pole, then put in the spices." "[indistinct chatter]" "After that, you put it over the coals, and start rolling." "I am only concentrating on my work." "My only concern is that it will be cooked on time." "I don't think of other things." "Only my work, because that is what's important." "I learnt how to cook it by watching others." "I put it in my brain, to learn it." "And now, I've been doing it for 30 years." "For the skin to be crispy, the first step is..." "The coals should be just right." "The crispiness is because the heat is right." "If the heat does not reach the other parts of the lechon, it will not be crispy, and the skin will be rubbery." "When you stop turning it, it will burn." "You keep rolling, so it cooks evenly." "When I cook the lechon, I don't need to eat," "I'm already satisfied with the smell." "I feel full." "So I'll just drink water." "I'm happy as long as there's water." "I seldom go to church, but I always pray." "I pray to God for good health, more business, and that my children and my grandchildren will not be sick." "That's all I ask from God." "Good health always." "When eating lechon, the first taste test is the skin." "If I keep licking my fingers, it means it's good lechon." "But if it's not tasty, I won't eat any more." "If it doesn't taste right, why bother licking my fingers!" "The best lechon is in Cebu." "Outsiders who come to Cebu, they always want to taste the lechon." "The best lechon is made in Cebu." "[indistinct chatter]" "Cooking with heart, that's how I do it." "When I cook lechon, I cook it wholeheartedly." "That's what I can give to my customers." "[sizzling]" "[drums beating]" "[cheering and applause] [in Spanish] It is a spiritual environment for each of us, where different conversations are held." "The asado calls us and reunites us." "I believe that is the thing, the essence of the Uruguayan asado." "For all Uruguayans, the theme of the asado is the same." "From a very young age, let's say from when you're a baby, you're already experiencing asados, because it's a tradition from many years ago, from our ancestors." "We maintain this." "And we still do it almost every day." "[indistinct chatter]" "Uruguay's greatest wealth, undoubtedly, is its agriculture and its beef." "Above everything else, the beef." "I don't know if it's because I'm Uruguayan, but I find the asado's meat so tasty." "I love it." "I love doing asado." "I love it!" "I love it." "There's nothing tastier than an asado, and for me, I'll never say no to an asado." "Whenever I'm invited to an asado or put one on myself," "I love it." "Here, life happens in a more tranquil way." "Everyone knows each other." "We experience and enjoy the beautiful moments that happen in our town." "[men laughing]" "[sizzling]" "[inaudible]" "[music stops] [cheering and applause]" "[indistinct chatter]" "[man speaking in Armenian] To be an Armenian..." "Well... how to describe that?" "You have to be an Armenian to know that." "Hard working, joyful, hospitable." "A people who have suffered in the past." "This is what it means to be an Armenian." "Always emigrating." "We have always been made to change our home." "We are few, but we are Armenians!" "And there isn't a country in the world that doesn't have Armenians!" "When you make a fire, and put children of different nationalities around, you can guess which one is the Armenian." "If everyone is sitting still, the Armenian will be playing with the fire." "[indistinct chatter]" "We are all said to be fiery." "We have the phrase, "fiery Armenian."" "The Armenian's horse is a fiery horse." "The Armenian soul is fire and flames." "I have loved sculpture since childhood." "You have to be in a good mood to make a sculpture." "If you are angry, you can't make a sculpture." "Making khorovats is an art too." "You have to be eager, put your soul into it, to make the khorovats tasty." "The interesting thing is, you make it with your own hands, and then you enjoy it." "That's the best thing, that you make it with your own hands and put your soul into it." "And then enjoy it with your friends and family." "People that are close to you." "[indistinct chatter]" "Come here, my little one!" "Is it ready?" "Leave it a little longer." "Generally, everyone else wants to do the khorovats themselves, or at least give you advice..." "Like, "you'll burn it," "turn it faster," "you don't know how to do it."" "But I'll say it again, one person should do it." "[sizzling]" "The most important thing is that you have to have vodka by the khorovats." "Just before it's ready, when you first sample the khorovats, you drink by the fire with your friends, and that is the most enjoyable and tastiest moment." "I was very naughty as a child!" "When I was a child, I was very naughty." "My father used to do khorovats a lot, because we always had people coming over." "I remember this from a young age." "Now I do it myself." "I learnt from watching how my father did it." "I've now done it many, many times." "And it turns out well!" "It's something that you pass from one to another because one can't learn it all at once." "Even a builder does not learn to build a wall instantly." "Someone has to teach him." "Like all craftsmen, everyone has their secrets." "[indistinct chatter]" "[sizzling]" "The secret..." "Well, usually, you don't give out the secrets." "The secret is in your hand." "Even if the recipe is the same, it's the hand of the one who makes it that matters in the end." "Everybody's hand has its own taste, and as such, you get different results." "The motherland is one of the most valuable things there is." "It's your parents, it's your kids, it's one of the very, very best things you have." "It is irreplaceable." "It's not something that you can explain." "You are connected to your motherland with your soul, with your body, with your subconscious." "Motherland is the same as your family." "[indistinct chatter]" "This earth gave birth to you, fed you." "Your roots are here." "No, I reject this idea of abandoning my country." "[man speaking in Arabic] Every day in our village, there were bombs from the ground or the air." "We had children and old people, so we had to leave." "When we came to the camp, it was just tents, and desert." "We had everything." "We moved to a very, very bad life." "Usually you move to a better life!" "We came to a desert." "Limited water, no electricity." "No freedom." "You can't leave the camp." "You can only live on the coupons you receive from the United Nations." "You have to find another income." "Most of the people living in the camp have to create one." "[indistinct chatter]" "This restaurant is considered... one of the first in the camp." "It was the first shawarma and falafel restaurant." "I really like shawarma a lot." "Not just the taste, I like to work with it, and practice a lot." "It's a trade I truly enjoy." "I learned it in Syria, at a restaurant I worked in for seven years." "I established my life when I came here." "I organized my life." "I never thought I'd have work here." "Or that I could continue my trade here, my life here." "For sure, it has lots of spices, too many to name." "You must learn the spices you work with." "Nobody in the camp knows the mixture that I make." "I am the first to use this mixture, it's very tasty." "Syrians like shawarma." "Most Syrians, particularly those from Hauran living here have shawarma almost every day." "We care about the type of meat we use." "It must be first class." "The spices also." "And then there's also our shawarma chef." "Good customer service brings people in." "If you don't deal with people nicely, they will never come back." "[indistinct chatter]" "For me, I want to return home." "Things here will go on forever." "Home would be better." "Because you grew up there and every human being wants to be in their home." "They don't want to be away in another country." "In my case, if I go back to my home country, every person, Allah willing, every Syrian will go back to their home, and live life happily again." "I want to be happy, with my family and open my own restaurant, and organize myself." "[indistinct]" "Allah willing, if the bombing eases or stops, all of us will return home." "As a human, you have to go back to your homeland, to where you grew up, to your past, to your land." "You have to go back for the sake of your children." "There is no future for the children here." "[gunshots]" "[man speaking in English] Coming from somewhat from outside of Texas..." "Of course they're going to think, you know, rodeo, maybe cowboy boots." "Everyone carries a gun in their pickup truck, and wears a cowboy hat and goes to church on Sunday and..." "You know, all of those idyllic romantic Texas things and there is a lot of that!" "[indistinct]" "There's a pride about Texas, there's the reason why a mockingbird is our state bird." "He's the one who sits in the top of the tree and is loudest above all others, you know?" "I think a lot of people when they eat barbecue, they're kind of... it takes them back to a different time or memory or a story from a grandparent." "You have these joints that are 50, 100 years old." "And you have new joints that..." "You know, a lot of them are inspired by these pitmasters of times past." "[woman speaking in English] Barbecuing in an open pit flame or any kind of fire goes back to cowboy days." "It goes back, you know, to the beginning of mankind." "They had to cook their food, so they had to make a fire." "It's just that we're still cooking that way." "[man speaking in English] So it's usually a dry rub with no sauce, cooked over post oak." "We call it an indirect heat style of cooking." "And that's where there'll be a fire box at one end of the cooking pit and a chimney at the other." "And so the chimney pulls the heat and the smoke over the meat." "[indistinct chatter]" "We work hard, we play hard." "We do everything in a very big way and barbecue is another one of those things." "It's very big." "It makes a statement." "It's bold." "Texans are just that way." "To my way of thinking, hands on cooking is... my way to fly." "You have to drink the Kool-Aid to do this." "There's just no other way around it." "It's a difficult job, it's a harder life." "But it has to be a labor of love." "And if you're not in it for the right reasons, it'll shorten your life span, I think." "I don't know many people who want to get up at two o'clock in the morning just to come to work and, you know, grind it out for ten or 12 hours, and then go home." "[man speaking in English] Somebody's got to light the fire, somebody's got to get the meat out, they've got to season it, they've got to cut it, make sure it's on the pit, and make sure it's cooked right... and that takes a lot of hours, and a lot of talent." "[Ms. Tootsie] In April, I will be 81 years old and I really don't feel like my age." "I don't worry about hard work." "I enjoy work." "I'm a workaholic." "Uh, it's hot in the summer time, it's cold in the winter time, but I enjoy it so I keep cooking." "[man speaking in English] Our method is real basic, a very simple seasoning and a lot of tender loving care in the cooking process." "You know, Ms. Tootsie's been doing this for, you know, 40 plus years." "A lot of what we do is based off of what she's done for many years." "[Ms. Tootsie] Well, just here in Central Texas," "I mean, that's all we know is barbecue." "Long and slow is the secret, I think to brisket 'cause it is a tough cut of meat." "It's a stringy cut of meat, so you have to be careful not to overcook it or cook it too fast." "So it takes a lot of tender loving care with it." "[man on mic] We live in the greatest country in the world today, and that gives us the right to choose what we do on a Saturday night." "[cheering and applause]" "And I don't care what they tell you in Washington D.C." "Because no man sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office in 2016 has given us that right." "It is those brave men and women that have raised their right hand." "They've sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States of America, against all enemies, foreign and domestic..." "When Edgar and I took over the restaurant, we had a sign up." "At one side, it said "Colored Only,"" "and then the other was for whites." "And Edgar and I decided that was not right, we just did not like that at all." "And so, we were going to take the sign down and we did!" "And we had some of our customers say," ""Well, we'll never be back to your restaurant!"" "And he says, "Well, I'm sorry you feel that way, but this is the way it needs to be."" "We just thought it was something that needed to be done." "And we wanted to be a part of trying to get it to where we felt like all people should be equal." "So I guess it was just something that he and I really felt deep in our hearts, that needed to be done." "In life, the only way you're going to get ahead is that you gotta work for it." "You know, nobody's just going to just drop something in your lap." "I mean, you've just got to get out there and, as my dad would say, "hustle."" ""Got that hustle!"" "I had visions of becoming a doctor." "We have several doctors in my family, and I wanted to be an orthopedic specialist." "It so happened my father became ill the summer before I graduated from college so... my dad's dying wish was to keep the business open." "So, I'm still here. [chuckles]" "And it's been good." "I have no complaints." "I feel like, you know, God plays a role in our lives and I think this was something He thought that I was probably better at than being a doctor, so there it is." "There's a lot for respect for the animal that gave his life for what we're doing." "And there's not a day that goes by that I don't think about the amount of animals it took for us to serve our menu for the day." "I mean, today alone on a slower day we're doing 48 briskets, you know." "That took 24 cows, there's only two briskets per cow." "You know, we're doing 60 racks of pork ribs, that's 30 pigs." "So we've already harvested and cooked 24 cows, you know, and 30 pigs just for what we do." "I don't know, it sounds kind of corny, but I think about that, you know." "I want to show that animal as much respect as I can in the preparation of it, and I don't take that lightly at all." "I really don't." "My father was very prideful of what he did." "He put out absolutely the best that he could every single day." "I think that we owe it to him to do the exact same thing." "It seems to be etched into our DNA." "We all gravitate to it in a way that is very predictable." "There's fire, there's meat, there's people gathering around." "Everyone understands barbecue, everyone feels that this is just a part of their life." "It's inseparable." "Such as air and water." "It's that much of a common fabric in the life of Texans." "All around the world barbecue becomes something more than just food." "It becomes an event, and it's just..." "It's a homecoming to a lot of people." "It means community is what barbecue means, and there's a community of us that are still keeping it alive." "What we're doing is, we're putting as much love into this as we can." "You know, and we're..." "I'm trying to show the gratitude I have to the people that I've learned it from, and a gratitude to the ones that they learned it from." "If we keep this tradition going, we're not losing touch with our ancestors, we're not losing touch with, you know, the people whose shoulders we're standing on to be here." "[man speaking in Spanish] The mezcal process starts when you sow the "maguey"' plant." "The plant needs to be of good quality stock, and it takes five years for the plant to mature." "Fire is important because when it is cooked, or "baked,"" "the fire is what brings the flavor, the sweetness to the mezcal process." "Once it's here, the cooking process lasts five days." "After five days, it's taken out, and it's left to mature for eight days, depending on the weather." "I started producing mezcal as a worker when I was 15, almost 16 years old." "I studied, and in my free time, I went to work." "That's how I learned it." "Now I'm 20, almost 21, and I have been working for almost five years." "When the work is finished, and I taste the mezcal," "I say the work was done well, the product is good." "And I like when people taste it and say, "this is really good mezcal!" ","" "and I say, "that's good, I have learned."" "Without fire, the production of mezcal is not possible." "The same goes for other food in Oaxaca." "Fire is an essential part of it." "[indistinct chatter]" "[woman speaking in Spanish] This business I inherited, comes from my grandfather." "He taught me from when I was young." "Then I started helping him out." "It is a family business, a family affair." "My grandpa's such a hard working person." "He puts in all his energy." "Work was scant, but he did it with all his heart." "While I was learning, we made a living." "He sent me to school." "In my case, I finished secondary school." "I had the dream to continue studying, to study Tourism Management." "To learn about the different dishes of a restaurant." "That was my dream." "But unfortunately, that was not possible, due to lack of money." "God gives me ideas." "Sometimes I have those." "I am the main person here, organizing my siblings, and things come to my mind, on how to do things, telling someone, "you, you do this!"" "Because I think I have a special talent that God gave me, organizing everybody." "In daylight, it's easy to work." "But at night?" "Not just anybody can do it." "Sleep is treacherous." "You may have worked the whole night, but what really matters is when a new day dawns." "When you go to the market, night after night, all that matters is the final result of a job well done." "To be able to make a profit, selling this food." "[indistinct chatter]" "PARENTS ARE THE PILLARS OF A CHILD'S EDUCATION" "[indistinct chatter]" "Now I am on this, I am going to say some words for all women who are going to watch this." "I am going to send a message for all... all who are in the world, now that I can come out and say it here." "I tell you, anything that you are going through, any test in life, any difficult situation you are going through, only be strong." "Grasp the hand of God." "Keep going and make your kids the engine of your life." "Never give up." "Push with all your might, and you will persevere." "So that your kids don't lack anything." "Think about them, always." "And doors will open for you." "You'll always have something to eat and always do good, without a doubt, and you will grow while you live on this earth." "We've got goat barbacoa, soup, tacos." "What can we get you?" "Barbacoa, soup, tacos." "Come, have a seat." "[woman singing in Maori] ♪ The connections" "♪ Of my heart mourn" "♪ The essence of love" "♪ Swells within" "♪ It is a link to those" "♪ Lost to the night" "♪ To the dark night" "♪ Of never ending" "♪ The legacies of yesteryear" "♪ Remain in the skies" "♪ As a beacon of hope And inspiration" "♪ It is the breath of life" "[man speaking in Maori] If you don't know where you come from, you don't know where you are going." "You are lost." "You become a lost tribe, you become a lost person, you become of no consequence, you become lonely." "You are likened to the wind, that blows aimlessly." "The marae is a place for me to say "I am Māori."" ""I am Māori, you are Māori." It is a place where you can stand proud on your land and say, "This is me."" "[in English] For us, it means home." "It's a home for us." "So, you know, no matter where you go in the world, you know you've got a home." "So this is what the land means to us, it's everything." "[woman speaking in English] And it's one way to strengthen ourselves, and an opportunity to come home and have family sessions, learning." "And letting our children, our offspring know their history, and part of our culture." "[indistinct chatter]" "How many fellas does it take to tie down a trailer?" "[man speaking in Maori] There's craploads of work needed to put on a successful hāngi." "So many logistical things that are part of a successful hāngi." "From collecting the firewood, to fetching the stones, to getting the iron baskets, to getting and preparing the food." "There's craploads of work!" "It's the hole for the hāngi." "[in English] I know!" "Okay, one more bit." "Sweet!" "Okay, hop out." "[both] Not yet, not yet!" "Not that one." "Gotta put the big one on first." "[man speaking in Maori] When you lay your wood out, the bigger logs must be placed on the outside, while the smaller logs are placed on the inside." "Just like that." "And the logs are criss-crossed, right up until you have approximately seven layers." "Once that is completed, the stones and irons are placed on top of the wood." "Once the setup is complete, you then light it." "[in English] Wrap it around." "Bubba, come out of the smoke." "[in English] My great grandma, they used to do the hāngi, the ladies used to..." "Our nannies, I can remember my nana, with the baby tied around her, and they were tending to the hāngi." "I think in the older days, with our grandparents, they always had to be prepared for enemy." "And they didn't eat sitting, if I'm right." "My grandmother always told us that..." ""We didn't sit to eat, we went down on our haunches, ready to attack if anything was to happen."" "So today the men don't have to do that, they just sat there and chatted." "So the women turned around and told them, "Okay, your turn!"" "So they took over, and the women went inside, hmm." "Maybe we're lucky, we got out of it!" "Ah, very good." "Yes." "Thank you." "[in Maori] When the call is made that the stones are ready, the fire is down, and the food is ready, then the real work begins!" "Your eyebrows get singed, your skin gets burned, your hands get scorched." "The rubber on your boots melts for those wearing gumboots." "Sweat pours from your face, your back aches." "And I liken it to our ancestor Māui." "Māui who slowed the sun." "Māui who beat the sun so that the sun would slow down in the sky." "And that work is damn hard." "[in English] Oh, that's..." "That's trouble!" "[in Maori] From the strength of the waves, the roughness of the sea, to the calm," "that's how I see this part of the hāngi." "When that hard work, that difficult work is done, the seas are calmed, meaning that the workers can now begin to relax." "[in English] It wouldn't fit on this fella's towball, because he had a bigger towball." "And it wouldn't fit over." "[in Maori] The rule of the hāngi once it is in the ground is, if everything is all good, and your hāngi is in the ground, the only thing left is to have good thoughts," "to have good thoughts, to say good things, not to say any bad words in or around the hāngi." "To encourage laughter, so that it generates a good spirit and a good feeling which I believe positively affects the outcome of the hāngi." "[man speaking in English] Getting cheeky to each other is..." "Yeah, it's just getting cheeky..." "Life's too short not to get cheeky." "Um we, we, we..." "When we die, we're in the ground forever." "You know, we're alive now, so make it worthwhile." "[whooping]" "Lovely." "[indistinct chatter]" "[man speaking in Maori] My delight in watching our grandchildren tending to the hāngi... makes my heart sing and soar." "Because they are the next ones to take over when we are gone." "That is the legacy that Tūranga has left for us, and future generations." "That's our ancestor, and that was one of his dreams." "That you bequeath your knowledge, your education, your wisdom, to them." "And in time, they will follow suit, and pass knowledge to their future generations." "Who knows what the future holds?" "Who knows where the Māori world will be, or look like in the next 20, 50, 100 years." "Who knows what will happen?" "What is my contribution to my people?" "What is my contribution to my tribe?" "I ask myself, "What is my gift to the world?"" "That is indeed my question, "What is my gift to the world?"" 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