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subject of episode twenty nine. I'm gonna be talking about some book recommendations for June Teeth as well as interviewing Top Shelf TV personality. Regular appears on Good Morning America and The Steve Harvey Morning Show and is the ambassador and executive chef for OH Steaks. Steaks that I buy on the regular braces that I sent to my mom every holiday, and I also send those on the Hall Steaks to someone that passed away so they can have

a feast in the name of their loved one. Speaking about Chef David Rose, author of Egging, David Rose cooks on the Big Green Egg. Now, we did a demonstration here at Malik's a cooking demonstration. We had never done a cooking demonstration at Malik's and it was a hit. The food was outstanding, it was delicious. David came in the bookstore and he demonstrated his water mcgrill, watermelon sand grill. He cooked up some grits with shrimp and his cream sauce.

He grilled this very tender and delicious whereby State with this secret sauce that he put on the top. And it was just a e fitful day to watch the magic of Chef David Rose. It was just beautiful. And everyone love these Fathers Day recipes that he has in his books. So all of that is taking place on episode twenty nine June Tea. My man David Rose in the house at Malik Books just did a wonderful demonstration

of cooking demonstration and we're greatly appreciative. Brother. You had the crowd going, they brought lots of books, and you were just a star. That's a good thing, and that's a good thing and and food. You know, just talk to us about rather the importance of a of a good meal, of a good menu that is, and why your book is all above ye first all, thanks for having me always respect you, appreciate you, and good food is like love, man, you know, good food and laughter

that cures everything. And this book right here, for sonifies all the foods I love, all the flutes I was raised with, all the foods I was taught to make, and just foods that I like in general. So on today's menu, we had a porcini rubbed ribby with the sun dried tomato, chimmy cherry. They tow it up, they tow it up completely, and we want to do a little surfing terri faction, so we had Southern shrimping grits, a little light black and seasoning on their parmesan grits.

And we did a turkey sausage cream sauce today and it just went over great. And to wash it all down, because you need something to wash it down, you did a grilled watermelon saying Gria. And I think everybody left full and drunk. So I think everybody's ubering home. So we're covered there. But it was a great day, full of laughter, full of great food at Malik Books and the first of men hopefully cooking demos. I broke the ice. You broke, so now it's up to your brother, go

for it. We never did anything like this and how it came together. It was amazing. It was amazing because we appreciate. But we're doing all this talking. I'm talking about the author Day wrote for guess what we need to introduce your old cars as a must come to the league. Books you have egging David Rose cooks on the Big Green leg souper, salads, entrees, dessert, smoke, cocktails, breakfast items, my love letter to food. You're gonna love it.

Your girl gonna love it, your baby daddy, your baby daddy, daddy, Dad is cousin he she them her, everybody. It's a book for everybody to enjoy. Well, here's the thing, you know, we wanted to build this event around Father's Day because we feel fathers, you know, need something and we are important. And therefore we thought your book would be a great gift for great holiday gift for Father's Day because of the recipes in there. You know a lot of men love to cook the group, but then they are men

wanted fire to cook. So tell us why this book is essential for great Father's Day. Yes, that has done so much to you, you know, so much for you growing up raised, You gave you money, allowance, loved you wipe your dirty panthers when you're young. So the least you can do is give him an exceptional Father's Day gift, and egging is that gift. If you love drilling, which all men love drilling. My dad loves grilling, this is

the perfect gift. It's the gift that keeps on giving and they'll never get tired of it because there's so much deliciousness in that. Yeah. Yeah, what's your favorite recipe in your book? My favorite recipe actually has to be the oxtails because I'm Jamaican and oxtails. That's that's my heart beat right there, Bro, that's my heart beat. It's essential to culture and community, and the Manias Bookshop is

bringing the world together with books, culture and community. Yes, so just talk to the audience about how food is so essential to our culture and to our community. Oh yeah, definitely for sure. Like sole food is the food we grew up with, the food that kind of you know, brings back those memories of those first moments and those feelings and the place. It's it's a it's a time freezing moment where you realize and remember the first time you had fried chicken or hot water corn bread, or oxtails.

It's like a time machine and it's love and like I always see, good food and laughter can cure anything. Absolutely, it's mediciable. Health is wealth, and a good meal it's very important for the soul. Amen, brother, what inspired you to become a chef? David? Mom and dad were both chefs, so growing up, you know, they kind of inspired me because they always brought me to work with them whenever

I had time off. So the seeing them the way they created food and the way they inspired the staff to follow them and create this amazing food or this plant at a small seed at a young age. Plus, I love food. I love food. Jamaican's love food. I'm from the Tri State areas, so I wanted to learn learned how to create and recreate food. So cooking was the best way to go about doing it. It's so in the book, you you you wove in some of that You're making twists, some of the Asian twists, all

of that, all of that food. This cookbook is my culinary road map. It's a mix of foods that I grew up on. Foods that's like countries I visited states I've visited because you know, every state every country, every region has their own style of open fire cooking and barbecue. So this is my homage to barbecue and open fire cooking all over the world. When you know, I know that food it's so universal and so many it actually brings people together. You know. It's just like music. You know,

music and you and it brings people. Sports do the same thing. I know. The food that's that is well, it really really it's crazy. You can be sitting at a dining table. You might be a different religion, speak a different language, but the food's in and y'all can just give that look he does know everything's okay with the else. So food is that one uniting front that brings everybody together, that one intangible love because good food is enjoyed near, far and wide, and everybody loves a

good play of food. Everybody. Yes, yes, yes. And you know during the demonstration and you talked about you graduated on top of your class. Look, I'm Luke, that is amazing. That is and very impressive. The demonstration and your technique and the season and the sauces and all just the way you tied everybody. You know, it was just amazing. And you it's like you could read the crowd. You could read and field and sense and it was like, you know, when they got your milk, they got quiet.

That's the best sound is silence and lip smacking. Yeah, that's news to my ass. Yes, yes, yes, it's dirty delicious. I had my samples and uh, this was a wonderful, wonderful event. And we're pre ship. What are you from again? Brother again? Originally from New Jersey, but I've lived in Atlanta now for the flast twenty years. I lived in

Atlanta for but I'm a Jersey boy, Jersey boy. Yeah you still I mean, you know, Atlanta is considered soft, but it's still east right yeah, yeah, south east, south, southeast, southee south feet. So um, telling some of your big plans you got coming up, because uh, you know, just you know, you don't have to, you know, but just you know what you've got going on your little Yeah in the near executive yeah yeah yeah. Regular appears on Good Morning America a couple of times the times on there, Yeah,

food TV personality. You know, we try to keep the resume very well rounded, you know. But in the near future, I'll be an essence fest and late July and I'll actually be doing the NBC Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Show as well doing a couple of cooking damnas the first hour of that. All that that should be fun, That should be a brother. Well, if I'm in town, I'll look you up. Absolutely, brother, I appreciate you've done

a wonderful brother, wonderful, wonderful demonstration. That's David Rose. You heard it live here at Bleak Boats. Appreciate books. Make it happen. Now they all signed that. We got him signed Eggan David Rose. On the Big Green Hey, one more thing. I don't think a lot of people know about the Big Green You know egg right? Can you

just touch them that a little bit? Brother? Of course, Big Green Nag is the ultimate cooking experience as a Komodo grill heats up fast, cools down quick holes temperature. It's porous, which means it's very forgiving. You could do soup, salads, entrees, you could do indirect heat, direct heat, pizzas. And when he put the convector in there, the plates that are

converts it into a convection of him. Now, I don't know about many other girls that can do that, but the Big Green name can't so if you're serious about your gruling game, get you a big green actor. You heard it live, David Rohose, thank you this particular episode. I want to point out some Juneteenth books instead of doing a book with you that you can go out and purchases on the market now so you can learn a little bit more or to be able to teach

your kids. One of the books that I recommend as a book that came out this uh this this year called The June Teenth Story Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States by Eliah Augustina. Another title by our beloved Floyd Cooper, June tenth from Mazie. That's a great book to pick up, very popular. Another one is On Juneteenth by Anita Gordon read as well as a book that was put out by a beloved literary writer,

Ralph Ellison called June teenth. Also pick up all different now Juneteenth The First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson. And a new one that came out recently, Free at Last, a June teenth poem. And that's why, Sir Jonah Kincaid Roy. So these are some of the titles that I recommend there for all ages. They filled with a lot of beautiful illustration. They give you great contexts about June teenth. So pick up your copy of Leak books dot Com or your local bookstores. Leak is in the community, and

I'm interviewing the community about the June teenth. I have a teacher right here. I don't know her name, but I'm about to find out. I want to get your thoughts on June teenth. That's the first national holiday this year. Give me your thoughts on June teenth for what it means to you. Oh gosh, I did not expect me. I know, I put people on the spot. I'm on the stump. I need to talk to the community. I need to find out. You know this the first year June teenth is you know, it's the day that people

in blacks that is, it was enslaved in Texas. Didn't even know that the Mancipation Proclamation was signed and blacks was freed in the Confederate state. So in eighteen sixty five, in June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, someone general went down there and told, hey, you know, slavery is over, and they started celebrating. So ever since that day they have they've been celebrating. Now it's a national holiday. There ain't been one for forty years, a new one that is,

so you know you're in the community, tell me your thoughts. Yeah, I mean, I will be honest. Um, I did not know about it beforehand, and I do acknowledge the fact that it's it's a problem. Yeah. Um, so now that I have a school teacher like you mentioned, I'm more than happy to of course kind of spread the knowledge.

And I'm thrilled that it is a holiday wonderful. One of what Malik Books has a lot of books on June teams so you can share with your kids and uh, beautiful illustrations and part of this podcast I did, uh, I guess I did. I mentioned that is about six seven books that I recommend for June teenth for kids, and um, you know, well, hey, you you the future, You're teaching the next generation, so we definitely encourage you to get some books on their teaching kids. Yeah. I'm thrilled.

It's my first time here, so I'm really happy for to top about the place and everything. Thank you so much, well, thank you, thank you appreciate. This is the month that we all been waiting for. The June team celebration of national holiday we've been waiting for this wonderful day were free. And I'm talking to a couple of people that's coming through Malik Books. This young lady wash your name Deanna, So Deanna, tell me your thoughts about June teenth and

what it means to black people in the market. Well, June teenth, to me means celebration of being black, African American, being free and educating yourself. And what do you think that we should be doing on June teenth. We should be celebrating, we should be joining with our family and friends. We should be talking about how we're going to join together as a community and as people and continue to grow. I want to for wonderful, wonderful. I want to thank

you for your few words. Malik is on the stump. I'm in the community. I'm talking to people coming into the Malik Books and I need to know how you celebrate June team by buying black Financial freedom is freedom exactly physically free, but we need to be financial. Financial literacy is the most important skill that black people need to catch on too quickly quickly, especially with the economy and the state that it's in right now. Yeah, you have for us by us there, you go and you

heard it from the streets. I must get her on record because it's very important. Yes, right, what would you want? Like? You don't think happy? Jun Team? Freedom is beautiful, Freedom is not overrated. Please continue to recycle your black dollars. And you heard it from Secret Weapon. Anything I gonna say about the June Team now, peace, you heard it. You heard it from Secret Weapon. Alright, Malik's bookshelf. It's

all about community, it's all about culture. And this week we have a celebration for the first time a national holiday hasn't been a national holiday and commissioned by the president and over forty years with this national holiday that

was signed in the law. It's called June teenth. Now some of you might not know much about June teenth, but it's a celebration that has been taking place since eighteen sixty five when this enslaved that is, black people in America in Texas finally found out that slavery had in It had been approximately two years years since the Emancipation Proclamation before the people of Texas, the slaves, the blacks in Texas found out that President Lincoln had using

his powers as Commander in Chief to free enslaved people in the Confederate States. It had been almost two years before these slaves in Texas knew. They kept this hidden. They kept it as a secret, and Gordon Granger arrived in Govelston, Texas and delivered a General Order number three telling the enslaved people of Texas of their freedom for the first time. It was hidden, it was kept a secret. They were still thinking they were slaves. But the Union,

the Civil War was over. The Emancipation Proclamation was already you know, signed by President Lincoln. Yet the black people in Texas were not aware that slavery had ended in the Confederate States yet. So a general went down there in Galveston, Texas and revealed to the enslave black people the General Order number three. And so since June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, the day the General Gordon went down

to Texas, that's how it became juneeenth. June nineteenth of every year the former slaves of Texas had a jubilee, a celebration, and celebrated their freedom every year since then. Now that has become a national holiday that is now being celebrated all ass the United States. So many culture events are being planned. I live in l a and many many celebrations of being planned. I'm participating in one called Black on the Block on June Team this Sunday

the nineteen. Well, what is else on June nineteenth? Is Father's Day, But it's getting drowned out as far as in my community is being drowned out because we're celebrating June Tea. My wife asked me, she said, um, what do you want to go to this jazz consin on uh June nineteenth. I said, no, I want to go back on the block. I wanted to set up and want us to bring our books. I want us to represent because it's a day to celebrate, but there's also

day of representation is also data center. You know, a message and that we're resilient and that we are forging a path forward in a way to make ourselves financially independent, because you could be free physically, but we need to be free financially independent, because then you can forge a path in the future for today and for tomorrow in

your next generation. So June Team is a celebration that we need to embrace because it's not only a day or freedom and celebration and jubilee, but it's also a day that we could come together and do something that's very important, and that is support each other as we rise economically. I'm part of this event that's coming up Black on the Block and it's about two hundred vendors. It's gonna be entertainment and it's you know, two hundred black vendors, and the purpose is to recycle the Black

Dollar June Team. We need to pull money together, and we need to support each other. We need to not just remember the history, but we need to do something about our history. And one way we could do something about our history and our future is that we need to pull money together and build and do for self. So I want to be part of the celebration. I don't want to just listen to jazz music and participate on Father's Day. We can do that on another day.

I'm a father twenty four seven, three hundred sixty five days a year. Anywhere. We can do something later on. But on June nineteen, this Sunday, all over this nation. I just came back from d C, and d C is celebrating. I was listening to the radio. It's all kinds of celebrations taking place out in Maryland, out in d C. All across this country. It's a jubil lee. It's a session celebration. It is a national holiday. And if you are blind and you are not celebrating June teeth,

I think you should re examine that. Why, Because if you don't remember, and if your freedom don't mean nothing to you, it won't mean nothing to no one else and your kids. If your freedom it's not celebrating and exalted, you know. And if you don't praise you know and blessed uh your history, no one else will. That's an important day to remember our past and to remember our future more most importantly why because things are never gonna stay the same, and what we need to do as

a people is to pull our money together. You know, I'm sitting here watching and that's why this June teem is culture and is community. But here's the thing I'm sitting around watching. You know, all these people talking about h don't make this like a commercialization. Don't make this into you know, spending all your money in corporate America.

And here you on national TV. You got an opportunity to tell people what to do, and you learn about what we shouldn't do, what we shouldn't do is waste time and telling you what another person needs to do with that money in order to to to participate on June te What we need to do is tell our community and our people to support block business, support local businesses, go out and let's pull this money and let's do

for self. June Tief is about freedom. What we need to become financially freedom, not being dependent on handouts and government aid. We need to rise up and pull money. We have one point five trillion dollars. We need to show our jubil lee, our June Team that we know

how to pull this money and do for self. That's what I'm suggesting, That's what I believe we should we should be focusing on, not trying to tell a corporation what they should do if they want to participate and make proud of and make clothing and make items and jump on the bandwagon. What's so big. But what we need to do is figure out what is best for us. And what's best for us is that we need to make clothes. We need to make those cups, We need to make all of those things just being sold in

different department store to celebrate June Team. We need to do those things. We don't need to worry about what another corporation is trying to do. We need to focus on what we need to do, because you're not gonna stop UH. These corporations agains, pay their toxics. That's the reality. They're gonna get there. What we gotta do is figure out how to pull this money, how to do for self, how to make Listen, if you're out there and you want to help UH, support and participate on June teeth

by local support a black business. These are things that you can do. Go out your weight two. I'm just not saying do it just on June team, because you could do this all the time. You could do this every day, but on June teeth in particular, go out and support a local black business. Go out and support your neighbor, go out and support your community. These are things that are simple and it can be done. Their

celebration is taking place all over. Businesses gonna be out there showing you and repping what it is that they stand for and have. We're gonna be out there. All I'm saying is, it's always about the Benjamin. It's always about economics, It's always about the money in the end, and we need to galvanize our unity and pull money when we have these kind of opportunities. We have a national holiday this around freedom, and what's more important than

find natural freedom. You already physically free, but we need to become financially free, financially independent, financially strong. To meet June Team is about economic growth as well, not just being free physically. You could be you know, you could be physically free and still be enslaved economically and oppressed economically.

It's important to understand that your money matters, and that there are people who's the volunteer their services for seven years in order to get a person to marry them or to get a certain amount of money. So we should never think about slavery without thinking about economics as well, because slavery was about economics, so freeing you physically, there still was an economic component. So we turned around and become ships propers. We can't. We turned around and got

worked for slave wages. See so Ju Teeth is about what It's not only about being freed, but it's also about financial freedom, financial liberation. It's more than just being freed physically, and we need to celebrate and pull our money and do something for self, because no one is stopping our rise. It's only us. If we can't pull our money together, can't funk nobody else. You can't fult the government. You're free to do what we want to do.

We can do tremendous amount of things on our own with our government aid or government and says we could pull our money together and build If twenty if forty million black people pull twenty dollars a month into a black fund, that's eight hundred million dollars, and if in a year's time that's twelve billion dollars. How much good in the hood can twelve billion dollars do? You can build schools, you can build housing, you can build supermarkets,

department stores, you can develop land and agriculture. We could do this all on our own. We're already the money we have. That's what June team should be about, because we already physically free. Should be about economic freedom, economic liberation. We need to pull this money, get this money, secure the bag. We need to you know, build, develop. You know, we're part of this country and we need to play our part. And there's things that we can do to be more great than we already are, and we need

to pull this money in order to do it. And so to me, June Team is a day of celebration. It's a day of jubilee. It's a day of our exhaltation, it's a day of our rise. So let's do this physically, but let's do this spiritually and fine naturally, and let's build a future for the next generation of change. And we could do that. I hope you enjoy episode twenty nine, June tenth. Let's celebrate our rise for our financial freedom.

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