if you were selling miami to somebody, what s the best thing about miami? best weather. how do you handle the cold if you have to tour or something and you have to spin a week or two weeks in detroit or chicago or something? my mind-set is i don t have to deal with this every day. i m going back to sunshine. when i have that on my mind, i can go into any city. i can go into a blizzard. i know i m going out. y all stay. this is really good. back inland, another world of flavors. little haiti. just in case miami didn t have enough tasty stuff from elsewhere. the b&m market is tucked away in the back. they serve some of the dishes that make me happiest. jerk chicken, who doesn t love that? curried goat, roti, and this. cow-foot soup. flavors, textures, some next level stuff. that looks, by the way, unbelievable.
out of johnny s record shop. the label became a showcase for artists like betty wright, frank williams and the rocketeers. johnny killens and the dynamites. everything you re ever been credited for for either producing or writing, it is a very, very long list, quite an amazing list. it s about 1,200. 1,200 songs. it just flows. i m like a song mechanic. you bring it to me. i ll help you fix it. william and his writing partner clarence blowfly reed wrote such classics as clean up woman and rocking chair. and willing and able. deep city was miami s answer to motown, the unique sound. 50 years, 100 years from now if you were to do an internet search and punch in the miami sound, your name is going to come up right away as principal creator of the miami sound. what were the distinctive features of the music you were making that separated it from
a lot of food cooking tradition in the family. oh, yeah. one night we d have rice and peas. the other night we d have peas and rice. otherwise known as luke sky walker. he is something of a musical and political and legal legend. credited with pioneering what would be called miami bass. maybe you know him from campbell versus rose music. how do you end up different growing up in miami than you would growing up in l.a. or new york? a lot of people would have said southern people, whatever they want to call us, in all actuality, we re an island town. i mean, miami was made up of bahamians that really built the city of miami. now you have a lot of different
another day, another country. miami is like that. you can eat your way across the caribbean and through all of latin america and then over to africa, if you d like. it s all there. the plaza is venezuelan. if you know anything about me, you know i love few things more than big, new, unusual, comes from somewhere else, mutant versions of the giant hamburger and this one, this one is something special. this is the deal. this is all venezuelan, which means everything is protein on protein on protein and it is all about the sauces. all right. we re going to do this. absolutely, right? okay. what is this neighborhood? some people call it petite
reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul? can a business be.alive? the dreamers, the visionaries, crooks, and con men who built miami envision many different kinds of paradise. a new jerusalem in the seemingly infinitely expanding real estate, just fill in where there s water and you ve got