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(soft bouncy music)

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- How do you like 
that for hand work?

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All right?

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Can I work a side job here?

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- Absolutely.

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(both laughing)

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(soft heartwarming music)

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- [Lidia] Changing 
traditional products

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to big business products...

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Beautiful table.

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The values change, 
the appreciation,

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the cooking, everything changes.

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So he's bringing it back,

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and I admire that very much.

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(Una bella tavolata)

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- [Lidia] Tavola is table.

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Tavolata means table. (chuckles)

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Hi, Nicole, how you doing? 
- Hi.

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- Welcome, welcome. 
- Thank you.

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- Give me a kiss.

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Thank you, welcome, welcome.

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Hi Linda, nice to see you again.

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- You too.

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- Hi, how you doing? 
- Good, how are you?

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- Nice to see you. 
- Nice to see you.

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- [Lidia] At the 
end of that journey,

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I was very proud because I 
felt this is the greatness.

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These people are genuine, 
honest, diversified,

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each respecting their 
own culture, working 
towards society.

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How you doing?

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All right.

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- So good to see.

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- Pleasure, pleasure 
seeing you again.

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Hi Nicole, welcome. 
- Nice to see you.

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- Okay.

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- [Sean] All right, 
I just wanted

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to welcome all of 
you guys to Owamni.

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So this is a really 
big statement

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to be able to have 
a Native restaurant

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featuring Native food from 
Native food producers.

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You could find food from all 
over the world in most cities,

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just not the food from the 
land that you're standing on.

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We have some wonderful 
dishes that our chef selected

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for you guys today.

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- [Lidia] Sometimes change 
might be objectionable,

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but in that group 
change was positive.

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It was bringing some 
of the tradition

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and all the knowledge and 
customs to change America

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to something better and new.

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- [Linda] I don't even 
know what to start with.

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- [Chad] Wanna try the bison?

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- [Linda] Thank you.

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- [Diner] Wild rice is just 
basically an aquatic grass.

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- We use a lot of sunflower oil.

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- [Patricia] To 
California, the sunflowers,

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they grow wild all along 
the freeways, the highways.

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- Never had crickets before, 
so that was new. (chuckles)

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It's really unique.

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- What did you say this little-

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- [Sean] Maple chili crisp.

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- [Lidia] Delicious.

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The squash is delicious.

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- [Nicole] The way that it's 
cut, the way it's cooked,

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it's really good.

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- Do you want some more 
is the question. (laughs)

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Okay.

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At the bottom of it, 
food is the connector.

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It was all about one message, 
the importance of food,

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of everybody having enough food.

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- [Chad] I was always interested 
in doing as much as I could

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to improve our environment, 
protect the planet.

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- [Kari] I don't think 
you can move forward

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without reflecting on your past,

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without looking to 
what's been done.

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- [Sean] It's important to think 
about how can we take steps

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to start to regain 
some of that control

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over our own food system.

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- [Patricia] We all have a 
right to eat healthy food.

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- [Nicole] So yeah, I'm 
excited for the future.

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We have quite a 
bit of work to do,

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but it's really 
thrilling. (chuckles)

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- Well, thank you 
all for coming.

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And, you know, as we 
do, we say in Italian...

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(Tutti a tavola a mangiare!)

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But also a good salute.

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Salute. 
- Salute.

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- [Lidia] Cheers.

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So it was a great food message,

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and that's what I've 
been doing all my life,

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message through food, cooking, 
and ultimately eating.

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- [All] Cheers. 
(glasses clinking)