Taste These Foods From Unexpected Places

[Music] you're in Mississippi and everywhere you go tamales with magical little snacks a corn flour and meat packed into a corn husk tamales tamales tamales so if you've ever wondered what Mississippi tastes like it tastes like me the tamale my journey starts almost a hundred years ago with 1930 and Mexican migrants are trickling into Mississippi they bring along a taste of home their version of the sandwich meet the tamale my great-grandfather came here from Mexico City jump the trains ended up in Mississippi he decided to make his family's homemade hand rolled hot tamales and a 1939 opened up this place and started selling tamales [Music] you have to understand this is a family thing I'm the fourth generation these same generation of people who have been coming to the Big Apple in for the last 78 years are also generational when they eat a tamale they'll always have a story my daddy used to bring me here his daddy had the same kind of story his daddy had the same kind of story tamales caught on here and it became a staple in the city so there I am winning over the Mississippi natives and as I make my way up into the Delta my location may change but little did I know that the tradition of family most certainly would not just like Gino and his grandfather at the Big Apple Inn I bring the Scott family together a family who has gone on to be known as the first family of tamales in Mississippi in the early fifties my father bought the recipe from a Mexican guy my mother and father taught me my sisters and my niece all of us together we make it hot tamale with just one big hot tamale family in a business Sam Lauren I think it'll last longer [Music] much like the Scott family the dough family is made up of a long line of tamale makers doles each place is a landmark restaurant that helped propel me to become the backbone of Mississippi cuisine I've become today my daddy started this restaurant in 1941 with my mother we've been here 76 years mama had a sister that was living here and daddy has a couple of two or three sisters that will every year so they all came and rolled tamales you know a lot of people ask ask us you know how did tamales get prevalent in the Delta it's been family you know the family's been here all the time as tamales made their way from Mexican culture to african-american communities and on to Mississippi's white population there's one thing that remained a constant family the most southern concept of all [Music] you could go down alleyways anywhere the city you're gonna find wild food I mean literally everywhere there are things that are very tasty very palatable you can't possibly get fresher food my name is Christopher Yaga and I'm the founder of the school of self-reliance I study the uses of plants and I teach city people how to use them if I lived in those we could Forge maybe for mushrooms my whole life I've been interested in the outdoors it's always been my love to feel more self-reliant so I'm happy to be able to do that [Music] Los Angeles really is a good place to forage the fringes of parks the edges of gardens the edges of farms I'm a very fast efficient harvester I'll take a bag in a ninth period I have a mental map I know where there's a lot of this and I need that I could go there in the heart of LA yeah there's little pockets all over people who have gardeners as soon as the weeds come up they cut them down that's the biggest obstacle for me regularly collecting wild heat the challenge is in the way we view the so called weed these are some of the most nutritious plants on the face of the earth and yes there are things that may be different than what you're used to eating so we collected mustard flowers radish flowers pods and leaves mallow fleets and leaves yucca flowers first Lane and lamb's-quarter leaves it's just what I do as part of my normal diet I do it because I I just like doing it I like the idea of making something from seemingly nothing I could make a meal from just things that I've gone out and collected I could make fire with sticks to me that's very empowering in a way even if I never have to do it I'm gonna do a loop on each end what I do on my classes we're going to take people out and we're gonna actually see the plants in the field I get people from all walks of life who come to these classes some want something that's more nutritious some are the survivalists some want just a different experience of food the foodies I'm not in the position to solve the world's problems but I'm in a position to convey to individuals new choices that they can make so I'm happy to pass that along to others it's an amazing feeling [Music] a Ranbir's carry fresh vegetables and fruits around the city with horse-drawn carts my grandfather's been doing it all his life he 87 years old now I've been doing it all my life and it's been around 50 maybe a hundred years before me today Baltimore you got markets around but you got to have a vehicle to get to him it's gonna cost them to get there cause them to get back and so it's beneficial to a lot of people for the Abra's to be on the street [Music] every morning pull my wagon up I get all the fruit together and design it up make it look nice and then I take the voice and put them in the wagon I start on my day you mostly call out what you got on your wagon when you come up and you see I ugly person just waiting at the door for you to come through and they give their load list that's the one who filled but they depend on us and we try to be there for a rabbit's for life baby hey Brad life we can't they love us and I want them to be able to see that some drugs ain't the only way to make money this is will keep me out of trouble this is will feed my families with pet food on the table pay the bills paid guests this is one of the the oldest things and in the city I still going right now this is history when I was a little kid it was nothing for me to turn the corner see a rabbit one right behind another sometimes if we don't get a lot of people behind us and they suppose they read in business it might eventually die out but my dream is to see last forever - the day I shut my eyes for doing [Applause] [Music] this story is about a secret restaurant in Madrid oh yes tapas no we are here for Chinese treats whoa hello how did we get down here again buckle up that's a long story it all started when we got a tip saying Madrid had the secret Chinese restaurant the most authentic food ever but very hard to find let's go there was no email no proper address all reviews pointed to a mysterious underground location we call the one number available no response oh what a shame no wait we didn't give up that easily we got a friend in Madrid to get to the bottom of it and she got us the right directions good thinking I got it I got it there are no signs so follow these steps we got to Madrid and followed the very detailed instructions take notes people go to Plaza to spying a truck get to the southeast corner truck find the parking lot entrance go down the stairs double check oh look Assad's restaurant remember there are no signs oh yeah I forgot go down more stairs go through the corridor welcome it whoa wait I think that's it that's how you find cafeteria you lungs ooh better known as the salsa everyone me chilling zoo and Lu fangs or mr. Fawlty former you see T in these juice are some of the most genuine Chinese food in Spain that looks so good tenderly me a woman would hear the howl with Cynthia La Mina so the video to these delicacies are not just your average Chinese dumplings they're from the couple's hometown Xin Jiang in the surrounding province Zhejiang in southeastern China it's actually where the majority of Madrid's Chinese population is from or may see hearts that warm ethnicity I think that oh so you want me to chant Katy hola que tal Matina - insha'Allah well you can see one like really like it for a restaurant I was this hard to find it seems like this place never stops going it's already deep inside tofu your parenting you gotta tell us who does your marketing going on the ideal way you want me to mail your team will come on man what about one for us hey we'll take that as a maybe ah that was totally worth the trouble please can we start filming now I am really hungry [Music] nestled in between the skin care love beauty spa and at Bonnie's pest control school here in Elmhurst Queens is Indo Java a to IO mini-mart for all things Indonesian but every Tuesday it turns into the city's smallest restaurant with truly authentic Indonesian food you're in luck you got the best table in the house it's also the only table [Music] my name is cetera chiotti I'm the owner of the indie Java we open in virtual farm ten years ago every Tuesday I cook right here for all the customer we call Warren's Lassa so it's me choose the food stop this little Superette turned one table pop-up restaurant isn't complete without one of the smallest kitchens in the world our kitchen is very tiny is a Love Kitchen because just in a 4-2 person two people might be a stretch it's half the size of a broom closet but it doesn't stop daily from whipping up classic indonesian fairly good egg and rendang i am before there is none indonesian starved it's difficult to find the ingredient from indonesia and we miss the community if we have a store the indonesian people will come here and then we still can't talk indonesian language that's our our dream and then now this happened I am NOT a professional chef I don't have any education ship background so I just learned from my mom in the last run the chef always hide in the kitchen I like talked with the customer when I serve the food so we can share in the story they always say it likes me I have to come again [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Great Big Story

Views: 105,672

Rating: 4.896626 out of 5

Keywords: great big story, gbs, lag, documentary, docs, food, flavors, food & drink, madrid, mexico, queens, new york, indonesian, great big reels, human condition, travel, travel & adventure

Id: yFHObV3vfcY

Length: 14min 25sec (865 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 13 2018