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(playful piano music)
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- [Woman] Deep in the bayou, on this street, down this road,
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in this windowless tin shack, is a restaurant
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run by one woman, whose dishes are so good,
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you have to wait a year to try them.
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- I'm Alzina Toups and I've been cooking Cajun food
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for at least over 60 years.
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(upbeat jazz music)
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- [Woman] Welcome to Alazina's.
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A Cajun restaurant with no staff and no menu.
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Just Chef Alzina and her kitchen.
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And it's housed in one of the most unassuming places.
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A former welding shop that was once owned by her son.
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- I turned this into kitchen because I loved cooking.
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And you don't have that big bump in the middle.
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- Right.
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- My son was in the process of moving to a bigger place
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so instead of closing it,
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he asked me if I wanted to convert this.
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So I converted into a kitchen.
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I wanted to be open.
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Where I cook and where they eat.
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Because they can see what you're doing.
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Most of the people that come,
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they want to take part in what you do.
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Cajun food I think is the best food in the world.
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I was raised on it.
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To me it's simple cooking.
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You start with your bell pepper.
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You have onion, you have garlic, a lot of garlic,
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celery, and then you saute that in a small amount of oil.
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And then you start adding your other ingredients.
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Whatever you're cooking, if it's a gumbo or jambalaya
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or fried shrimp, what's better than that?
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- [Woman] As good as that sounds,
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eating at Alzina's can be tricky.
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There are no walk-ins and reservations
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can only be made by calling her on her landline phone.
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- Thank you for calling.
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I didn't want walk-in because I think
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I would have been very unhappy.
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I live a simple life and this is the way I like my life.
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Simple.
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No computer, just a simple telephone.
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I'm booked up until next year.
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I'm always booked up in a year advance.
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And I like it better that way.
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- [Woman] Over those 40 years, Alzina's has been
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pretty successful garnering the attention of magazines,
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politicians and celebrity chefs.
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People from all over the world have flocked
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to Alzina's kitchen for her authentic Cajun food.
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But for Alzina, the experience
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is all about making people feel at home.
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Like a family.
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- When people come, it's a tin building.
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So they see where we're at and you don't realize
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that it's here.
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But when they step in the kitchen,
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it's a different world.
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I really think they're happy.
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I feel the peace in the kitchen and then they mingle,
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family that haven't seen each other for maybe a year,
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two, three years.
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It bring happiness to them.
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And it bring happiness to me.
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I was born to serve, not to be served.
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