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after this, it s gonna be your favorite. - everything. - you know what? i want to do a roasted beet salad. we re ready for lunch. - [laughs] - so we re gonna cook with it. - okay. the farm has an outdoor kitchen where lalo is showing me how he cooks the beets. even their names sound delicious; white sugar beets, red bull s blood, and candy stripe. we leave the beets to roast slowly and fry onions, garlic, and tomatoes as a base for the purslane. - now we re going to add our verdolagas, purslane. - oh, my gosh. - okay. and then we re gonna cover it. - where did your passion for cooking come from? - i started cooking out of pure necessity. when i was a kid, my family and i were migrant workers. my father did it for 30 years. i never went to school. i needed to find a job to support the family with my father. [soft music] - when lalo was eight years old, he and his family left their home in north mexico
the farm has an outdoor kitchen where lalo is showing me how he cooks the beets. even their names sound delicious; white sugar beets, red bull s blood, and candy stripe. we leave the beets to roast slowly and fry onions, garlic, and tomatoes as a base for the purslane. - now we re going to add our verdolagas, purslane. - oh, my gosh. - okay. and then we re gonna cover it. - where did your passion for cooking come from? - i started cooking out of pure necessity. when i was a kid, my family and i were migrant workers. my father did it for 30 years. i never went to school. i needed to find a job to support the family with my father. [soft music] - when lalo was eight years old, he and his family left their home in north mexico in search of a better life in the states. they worked without documentation as migrant fruit pickers around florida. when he was 15, lalo got his first job in a restaurant.
probably one of the most healthy food you can eat. after this, it s gonna be your favorite. - everything. - you know what? i want to do a roasted beet salad. we re ready for lunch. - [laughs] - so we re gonna cook with it. - okay. the farm has an outdoor kitchen where lalo is showing me how he cooks the beets. even their names sound delicious; white sugar beets, red bull s blood, and candy stripe. we leave the beets to roast slowly and fry onions, garlic, and tomatoes as a base for the purslane. - now we re going to add our verdolagas, purslane. - oh, my gosh. - okay. and then we re gonna cover it. - where did your passion for cooking come from? - i started cooking out of pure necessity. when i was a kid, my family and i were migrant workers. my father did it for 30 years. i never went to school. i needed to find a job to support the family with my father. [soft music] - when lalo was eight years old,