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Hello my darling. I love this episode. I love Chaffa Alyssa, if you can't tell. She's cool as

shit. And Chaffa Alyssa is really my favorite kind of guest. She's someone who let life take her

on various adventures, being her authentic self, working hard and enjoying her life until she

settled into her true calling. So we talk about what her food life was like growing up in LA,

the challenges of being a black female chef when she moved to New York, what it was like personal

chef for common, what it was like being a producer on militia, and what inspired her to open my two

cents. Don't forget to listen to her podcast. My last meal on deer media. Enjoy.

But you grew up in Los Angeles. See, and you went to Westchester High School.

When it was good, apparently it's all fucked up. So, well, most of the Los Angeles schools,

I know. And did you always want to be a chef? I was a master of all trades or whatever you call it.

That's a cool thing to say about yourself. I don't know. I think that I was good at

everything, but anything administrative. So kids, when you figure that out early, don't think

you're slow. Just know that you have artists vibes.

Literally because, yeah, my parents, we ate together every single night. So I came to my house.

My mom, I came from a house. And my dad, he did barbecue in the backyard and he loved, he had

his famous baked beans. So that was his thing. But, you know, a pork chops on Tuesday,

meet loaf of third super American straight down. It was that scheduled. That's so smart. Yeah.

So, you know, what's going on? You don't have to ask for dinner. What's for dinner? It's Tuesday.

Well, it's also nice that your mom didn't have to, like I'm constantly like, what do I whip up to

make interesting? Even like, I was telling a friend of mine now that was that's married. Even if

you say, take a piece of the past and not every night, like my mom, but maybe two nights a week.

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