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Houston-based sommelier and restaurateur June Rodil joins the latest episode of Tinfoil Swans to share her journey from an immigrant kid decoding American culture through ‘Babysitters Club’ books to a bar and restaurant visionary redefining what it means to serve with empathy. She opens up about fitting in, what Waffle House and Olive Garden taught her about hospitality, and the refuge she finds beneath her comforter when the world gets too loud.
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00:00so you were used to good food what had you been eating to that point oh so my mom and
00:04dad um they
00:06are nurses so they eat they like eat out all the time so because they didn't have time to
00:12make dinner yeah so the food if it were if it was at home it was filipino food that my
00:17grandma would
00:18make um which was delicious and still to this day it like feeds my soul like i still think about
00:23it
00:24it's like so hard to go to filipino restaurants sometimes even though it's amazing because
00:28it's hard to always compare it to something that your grandma made but it's amazing i still love
00:33filipino food now but um aside from that like my parents would always work so our family time would
00:42be in restaurants whether it was like a waffle house like waffle house is very dear to me extremely
00:47extremely same yeah it was just like because if if my parents got out of work at like 8 p
00:53.m right
00:54like they could like just scoop the kids up and we can at least have an hour together to like
00:59eat breakfast for dinner but it was just i so from something like that to like a really nice dinner
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