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(tranquil sound)
Maze: We're going to serve it with bread.
(knocking sound)
Anthony: It's not supposed to be that hard. (crosstalk)
You all heard that at home, right?
Bread's not supposed to be that hard.
(hip hop music)
Anthony: I'm Anthony Anderson and I'm on a mission
to find the best home cooks in America.
(music)
I'm in Chicago, Illinois to meet a guy
that a few local chefs told us makes
the best barbecue shrimp in the city and he's not Bubba Gump.
He's a political strategist named Maze Jackson.
Maze: Welcome, we're about to go in here and get us some shrimp
so we can make our barbecue shrimp recipe.
Best place in Chicago, all right.
Typically, people get these kind of shrimp,
but I really come here for the specialty,
which they have right over here.
Come with me over here.
Anthony: We're getting the special shrimp?
Maze: We're getting the special shrimp.
Anthony: All right.
(music)
Maze: You can very rarely find shrimp with the head on.
You see those eyeballs?
Anthony: Yeah.
Maze: It adds to the flavor.
Anthony: I don't want my food looking at me, though.
This is how we just do it where I'm from.
You put the bag in there and just grab in on like that, all right?
Maze: Now you'll be smelling like fish all day, but it's okay.
Anthony: There you go.
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Anthony: Why New Orleans style barbecue shrimp
when you're a Chi-town boy yourself?
Maze: There was this restaurant here in Chicago
that I used to go out to and get barbecue shrimp
and one day, they took it off the menu,
so I searched far and wide and looked all over the place
trying to find out how I could make it
and I finally found a recipe that finally matches it.
This is it, I want to show it to you.
Anthony: This is what we do, all right.
(music)
Maze: All right, Anthony.
Anthony: Hold on, they ain't said action.
Will you calm down, brother?
You relax, you'll have your own show one day, trust me.
Cameraman: Action.
Maze: Why don't you grab a stick of that butter
and we're going to melt it.
We want to get that started right away.
All right, in the meantime, what I want you to do
is combine in a bowl some cayenne pepper,
some black pepper, a little bit of salt, some chili pepper,
thyme, rosemary, and oregano.
Anthony: Look at that.
Maze: All right, mix it up.
We're going to wait for this to melt
and once that melts we're going to add it right on in.
Anthony: What else is there that you like to cook?
Maze: I love to barbecue.
Anthony: We're going to have a barbecue show.
I'm going to invite you down for the barbecue show
and we're going to have a barbecue cook off.
Maze: You not ready.
Anthony: You ain't ready.
You are a campaign fixer.
Maze: I wouldn't call it a fixer as much as a person
that is able to maneuver through situations
and help people come out on top. (record scratch)
Anthony: I don't know what the hell that is.
Without mentioning any name, what's the worst thing
that you've had to clean up in your line of work?
Maze: I don't think I would be able to even talk about that.
Anthony: Let's pour that over some rice,
let's get that onto the table, let's finish our conversation.
Maze: All right, that sounds like a plan.
Anthony: Okay.
(Hip hop music)
Anthony: Who do we have at the table with us right now?
Maze: Right now at the table we have Milan,
my 13 year old daughter who is a teenager.
We had to coax her to come on out here and talk to us.
Anthony: I know, it's 13 going on 30, ain't it?
Maze: 13 going on 30.
Anthony: What's your favorite meal that your father cooks?
Milan: Barbecue, pasta, chicken.
Anthony: I'm going to have to invite you over to another cook off.
Maze: Another cook off?
Anthony: Fried chicken.
Maze: You ain't ready for my fried chicken.
Anthony: I brine my chicken overnight with rosemary, lemon.
Maze: You've been in Hollywood too long, man.
That rosemary stuff.
You have to get you some Lawry's, man.
You've got to do it with the Lawry's and do it right.
Anthony: I put that in my flour.
(music)
How old were you when you started cooking?
Maze: I started cooking when I was in the third grade.
My dad was a preacher and my mother was a teacher
and he said, "No TV after school."
I got into my mom's cabinet and got the family cookbook out
and started making recipes and soon I was cooking every day.
Anthony: It's funny that your father's a preacher
and he wouldn't let you watch television because it's the devil,
but he let you play with fire.
Maze: Right, that is kind of funny. (laughing)
(music)
Anthony: This bread is hard again. (laughing)
Maze: You got the corner.
Anthony: I think it cut my gum.
(hip hop music)
Anthony: I need that recipe.
Maze: I got you.
Anthony: I need that recipe.
Maze: I got you.
Anthony: Hey, Milan, which one of my movies did you like the best?
Milan: Never Say Never.
Anthony: I wasn't in that one.
Milan: Oh, Justin Bieber was.
Anthony: Okay, never mind.
Go on, eat your scrimp.
(hip hop music)
Milan: I just need Justin Bieber's number. (laughing)
Anthony: I can't give you that.
(rushing sound)