I think he's really good and interesting. I could go on and on about him but i just want to blog about an episode of Jamie's American Road Trip that i caught last weekend. It was the episode where he was in New York.
I really enjoyed it cuz he went to places and sampled food that is not what one would expect - not on a travel channel. No, he did not do any of those touristy stuffs. Instead, he did what he always does - goes and searches out the interesting and often overlooked food-related stories.
His focus was on the immigrant community - rather large in the Big Apple. This is the placed where ppl go to fulfil their American Dream!
Here is an excerpt taken from his site regarding this episode:-
This episode of Jamie’s American Roadtrip takes Jamie to New York City, only this time he’s trading the upscale restaurants and neighbourhoods he’s used to for an apartment in one of the world’s most ethnically diverse areas: Queens. From his new home Jamie explores some of the food being cooked by New York’s immigrant communities: Egyptian, Peruvian and Chinese.
Jamie uncovers things he’s never imagined like an illegal restaurant run in a family’s living room and an anti-restaurant scene. The people who run these ‘supper clubs’ open their homes to strangers and feed them restaurant-quality meals, without the inflated prices and hurried service. After discovering this new side to the city he’s known for years, Jamie is inspired to hold his own supper club.
But perhaps the best part of this episode (to me) was when he visited Jorge who is an immigrant from Columbia. It was pretty interesting - as Jamie was not concerned so much about what Jorge was cooking but who he was cooking for.
Jorge has a full time job - but when he gets home, he cooks every nite for Colombian immigrants who are homeless and on the streets of Queens. Jamie follows him out and even helps to serve the simple food - to a lot of them, their only meal of the day in the freezing cold New York winter.
Why would Jorge do that? simple - he himself was like that in the past. He went into the States as an illegal immigrant and had to endure the hardships and suffering - and now he feels the need to help his fellow country man - based purely on humanity, nothing else. And his faith in God too.
One could see that Jorge has a
I liked it when at the end of the episode, jamie was reflecting about the role of immigrants in our community - how his great granddad used to be rather "racist" about immigrants - even tho he himself was a Sudanese!!! It was a nice personal touch personal touch to it, not too preachy, but his simple view of how the immigrant community can contribute to our society.
*One of his classics! and one of my fav songs!
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