♪♪
- What's up? How's it goin'? - Hey, dude.
- Nice to meet you, man. - Good to meet you.
What, you couldn't find a Patriot jersey?
- Original American Patriots. - What is that?
Let me see. RG III.
RG III.
We wanted to check out the TB12 training.
- Gotta get you to work, by the looks of it. - Yeah. Yeah.
No, you're actually pretty tightened up.
- Pretty tightened up. - Yeah. Yeah, uh, I... you know, it looks like
There's a lot of rice on this.
- But it's... it's tighter. - There's not.
- Should we check out the... the cookbook? - Yeah.
- It's not a cookbook.
- Oh. Oh, not bad. - It's a manual.
- A living document. - It's a living document.
Okay.
- You know, we have - Some healthy snacks that we do.
There's, you know, some cereals, omelettes.
- There's protein bars. - Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I could do this.
You know, hopefully, you can get what you want out of your life.
Hopefully, you can accomplish your dreams and your goals.
- And... - I would like to look like Tom Brady.
What do I eat? Do I start with the nuts?
That's helpful.
Yo, do you mind helping me sign this copy
- of "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"? - What is this?
I have a series of books where athletes sign, like, books by great female authors.
- How's that? - That's great.
I'm gonna be checkin' in on you.
There's some pretty great restaurants down on the cape.
Yeah. Okay. Monitor the progress here.
The titties have deflated this season.
I've lost a little. It's been good.
- Can I catch a pass? - Yeah.
- Okay. I'm ready. - Don't drop it.
- I won't drop it. - All right.
- You want, like, - An easy pass that I'd throw,
Like, my daughter? Or do you want a,
you know, rocket like I throw to Julian Edelman?
Not the full rocket. Maybe like you threw to, like,
a defensive end playing tight end?
Okay. All right. So go down and out.
Okay.
Set, hut!
Oh, my god. I caught it.
I Yo!
Those are good hands.
Asians can catch.
♪ Y'all in the wrong world ♪
♪ So look here, man ♪
♪ Welcome to "Huang's World" ♪
♪ World traveler ♪
♪ The food, whoo, good and delicious ♪
♪ Shanghai, Moscow, check out the pictures ♪
♪ L.A., New York, M-I-A, oh, London ♪
♪ The schedule's vicious ♪
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♪♪
One of the things that always strikes me when I talk to my white American friends
is that when I ask them their background,
they're very quick to say, "I'm just white."
But, like, you're not just white.
We were all immigrants to this country unless you are a Native American.
And the first place the original American
immigrants came is Cape Cod for religious freedom and to escape persecution.
And over the years, Cape Cod has become and elite tourist destination exporting
a type of very restricting American monoculture.
So we came to Cape Cod to explore the idea of whiteness.
And we want to understand how a place that once symbolized freedom
and incredible became a lighthouse for the projection of monoculture.
♪♪
Hi. How are you?
Paula here is a food historian.
Yes. I am. Yeah. I'm very interested,
especially in vernacular foods of everybody people.
Prying apart the pieces of cookbooks.
So then... when reading between the lines, you can often learn a lot about
what ordinary people are eating all the time.
- Yo. That's a cool term too - 'Cause, like, I'm interested in
what people eat in homes, like your mother's dishes
Your grandparents' dishes that also don't make it - onto restaurant menus. - Yeah.
So what do you got cookin' over here?
Well, I'm cooking a dish called Plymouth succotash.
Uh-huh.
The main ingredient is hulled corn and beans.
The corn is treated with ash, which is related to the Mexican way
of using calcium hydroxide, cal, to treat corn.
Mm-hmm. Even in the 17th century, you see ingredients
and techniques being used from Central America,
Mexico that migrated this far north.
The... it was adopted by colonists and became Plymouth's own food.
- And so it's a poultry, pork and beef stock. - Mm-hmm.
Yeah. The native people would use deer and raccoon and whatever was at hand.
But this became the sort of farmyard version.
And interestingly, once it was printed in the cookbook in 1883,
- I think all the other versions went away... - Mm-hmm.
Because people wanted to have this sort of upright, recognizable American culture.
An American brand, almost.
Yes. Yeah.
You see this codification of food paralleling the codification
of literature and the economy and culture in the late 19th century.
♪♪
Wow. This is awesome.
I don't know how this ever became vernacular food.
It looks beautiful.
Honestly, it looks awesome.
There's a lot of color and texture.
- Yes. - And if you remove the corn,
This would taste like any soup in a Korean restaurant,
in my mother's home, in my home.
But with the introduction of the corn treated with ash,
now it's like my mom made tortilla soup.
Mm-hmm.
Everybody's life is like a beat.
And your experiences is kinda like a Wu-Tang track because there was nine rappers
that would jump on the same beat.
But this bone stock is to, like, human culinary history
what the "Triumph" beat or the "Protect Ya Neck"
beat was to Wu-Tang.
And everybody can come along and put their radish on it
or put their corn on it or put their potato on it.
And, like, that's how I see this stock.
♪♪
Your onion roll looks good! Good.
Yo. So we in Nantucket right now. You already know.
We got the game wrapped like a calzone.
But the rest of this town is garlic knots.
In the book business, one of the hottest times
of the year to come out with a book is the summer.
They need to have romance. They need to have drama.
And they need to have summertime escapism.
Arguably, the queen of summertime beach-read books is Elin Hilderbrand,
who's written 17 books on Nantucket culture.
And we're coming here, to her house, now, to have a little Nantucket soiree.
So what do we got here?
There are our little appetizers.
- Uh-huh. - I have burgers for your crew.
- Oh! - And I have - A deep fryer right here.
- We're gonna drop fries. - Oh, wow.
Then we're gonna make lobster salad.
Nice. Nice.
♪♪
How many generations has your family - been comin' to Cape Cod? - Oh, gosh.
- Just two, I guess. - Oh, okay.
Our parents brought us when we were small.
Yeah.
And now, our kids, they were born at the hospital,
have lived on this island their entire life.
They don't know any better.
You like growin' up in Nantucket?
Yeah.
You are, in a many ways, the queen of beach reads.
- That's right. - What is it about your books,
You think, that have helped you kind of, like,
capture the imagination of that demographic?
I feel like, on the one hand, um, I live this life.
So this is not for you guys. I live this life every day.
I don't always have lobster salad.
Um, I do, uh, a lot of times have lobster salad.
But I don't always have lobster salad.
- Yeah. - I live a life That a lot of people, I think, probably envy.
And I have worked very, very hard to get there.
- Yeah. - It's absolutely your life and real.
But I think your readers have elevated it to this magical place...
- Right. That's right. - That, you know, unfortunately,
Not everyone's gonna get to come to.
Do you ever wish, sometimes, that you lived somewhere where you may meet more people
or see new stores and things?
Or you really just like it this way?
I like it this way. I love it here.
And this is my refuge and my safe place.
And, I mean, this is the life that we live.
And I think for a lot of America, it's so... it's a fantasy.
- Yeah. - And it's enviable.
And so when I'm writing about it, it's a way for me to give the American summer
to people that will never come to Nantucket.
Or maybe they want to some day. And they, you know, they should.
- Here's to us! - Toast to Elin!
- Yup. - Cheers.
Cheers.
Jesus Christ.
I can't imagine the people who don't love it here. But...
- I mean, like, I... I... I looked online... - No.
The Future does not have a tour date in Nantucket.
I... I would have trouble living here.
- Right. - Whatever I grew.
If you don't mind, Tom keeps calling to check if I'm eating carbs.
Nantucket's lifestyle, it is very magical.
It is mystic.
But it's not grounded.
And there's a real sense of detachment.
I wake up every morning.
I'm constantly checking the news.
I'm constantly trying to stay connected.
And in Nantucket, I don't know if it's because I have trash T-Mobile service.
But it's pretty happy to stay connected out here.
♪♪
We were drivin' down this road and saw Timmy's Roast Beef in this shack.
And I figured, like, if they're surviving in this shack in this tourist town,
like, the food's gotta be good.
- Come on back. - What happened to your Trump hat?
- Oh. Here it is. Moved it right here. - It's right there.
You never know.
You take politics out of the picture.
And then you just do food.
Yeah.
♪♪
I wanna understand how people in this part of the country feel
because I see a lot of Trump stickers.
And when I lived in New York, Trump... - Oh, absolutely. - Trump's the devil.
You'd be ostracized, you know?
Yeah. And I wanna understand why it is that people support him.
I mean, I'm a libertarian.
I believe people should do what they wanna do free of other peoples' judgment.
I think it's important that... - Yeah. - You can do that.
But Trump is just... He's a job creator.
He wants to lower taxes.
And there's not many opportunities for young people.
A lot of us work off minimum wage or whatever the tips we get.
You know, the thing is, more money people have,
the more people... they're gonna go spend it.
It's gonna circulate.
And people are gonna happy.
And they're not gonna clench to money because they don't, you know, they have it.
- And... - Did you ever read, like, Ayn Rand,
- like "The Fountainhead"? - I didn't.
- Um, I wanna read that. - I got into it.
And I read it in high school. And I thought it was cool.
But then the more I traveled, and the more I saw things in the world,
the reason why I don't think libertarian policies and Ayn Rand work
is because not everyone has the same starting point.
You guys survive on, like, blood, sweat and tears.
Oh, yeah. Workin' hard every day.
But it's not fair that you have to start this far back.
- Yeah. - You know?
But the roast beef, extremely tender.
You guys slice it really thin.
Come and cook it every morning.
Yeah. Inside round, medium rare, melts, no pull.
Make roast beef great again.
- Thank you, man. - Good to have you guys.
Really appreciate it. Thank you.
- Hey. - Hey. How's it goin'?
I heard you talkin' about, um, Trump.
I actually just was at his rally - Down in Florida. - Oh, why?
Um, can I sit here?
Yeah, sure, sure.
First of all, we are, you know, a Judeo-Christian country.
We were raised on those values.
And I've... I'm Christian myself.
They opened the rally with prayer before anyone got up and did any speeches.
I don't think this is a Judeo-Christian country.
The puritans came for religious freedom.
- And, of course, - They have religious beliefs.
And their values come from those beliefs.
But they're immigrants.
And then so many other people have come to America
and built this country and contributed to it.
I don't think this country belongs to any one person or one group.
When I say that, I'm talking about the Founding Fathers.
On the back of our dollar, it says, "In God we trust."
Yeah.
So we were built on that faith.
I think we're losing the core values that our country was founded on.
When we talk about laws and we talk about America,
we always go back 200-some years.
But if we... me and you were talking, like,
even about making a roast-beef sandwich, we wouldn't be like, "Well, this, it...
200 years ago, we made it that way.
And we should do it that way as well."
Like, there was no onion rolls back then.
I... I try to think in 2016.
What are our issues? And what can we do?
I try not to go backwards too much.
I really appreciate you stoppin' by.
Yeah. Thank you.
So thank you.
Okay. We're a wrap.
I like it, right in the driveway.
♪♪
In my ongoing quest to fit in in Cape Cod, we're gonna come to Mahi Gold,
meet the homey, Max, and try to buy some clothes, so we don't stand out so much.
So this is the spot to get outfitted? Uh... This is it, man. This is Mahi Gold.
This is place has sort of a little bit of everything:
the old, the new. But this is where you want for...
- Okay. - Quintessential Cape Cod.
'Cause we... we need some help 'cause the whole crew... We'll help ya out, man.
Looks like some bargain-basement Chippendales here.
Like, th... this... this guy, to a leopard vest.
Dave's over here, like, the white-hot painter.
Givin' off the wrong vibe.
Let's change that.
♪♪
- Dave? - Yo.
I hope you guys are sitting down.
You're gonna get very turnt.
♪♪
What was really interesting about being in
Mahi Gold is the clothes are utilitarian.
This fabric whips away sweat.
Yeah. I feel great.
I was hot and uncomfortable.
Then all of a sudden, I put on the, like,
clothes that I've seen as the clothes of the oppressor
- my entire life. - Right. And it's comfortable.
And I'm like, "This shit is wild comfortable"... - Yeah! - "In Cape Cod."
And what's really, really interesting is that this sort of way of dressing is...
is pretty specifically to this area.
Do you feel that pressure to conform to White
Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture while you're out here?
Well, I'm a Jew.
So I can't really be a WASP.
Uh-huh. Yeah.
But we, you know, we're all borrowing elements of that culture.
But I've definitely felt the shift.
And maybe it's... it's happening with my generation, you know?
They're looking for exclusivity elsewhere.
Right? They're not joining country clubs.
No. They're looking for new activities.
But they're not looking for new peoples or new ideas.
I mean, you can go multiple days,
a whole week here without seeing anyone besides white people.
Because of your skin, you have a different experience
- and a different perspective. - Sure.
And it's very important to have that in any society
because if your perspective goes unchecked and unchallenged,
I mean, how close are you to truth?
How hard are you working on yourself and your ideas?
- Yeah. That's pretty... up. - Mm-hmm.
Yeah. And it's super... up. And... and it's...
- it's not like... - Oh, shit. Hang on one second.
Oh, something's wrong with the car?
- I don't know. - Oh, oil.
- Temperature is pretty... - Yeah.
Yeah. Shit's overheating.
Car's overheating.
That's not good.
Ah, dude. I don't know what to do at this point.
When we get to the beach, we'll let it cool off.
- We'll have some... - We'll be all right.
We'll have some dinner.
Like, the Cape is where I'll always come to have fun.
The moment I... I'm drivin' from Boston, I hit the bridge.
I can just feel, like, stress melting off of my body.
- Yeah. - I mean, for me, I'm happiest on the beach with a bucket of oysters,
surfboard and a bottle of wine.
Mm-hmm.
- Car's dead. - We're a wrap.
I like it, right in the driveway.
Yo. It's sizzling. You hear that?
Feels pretty hot.
Yo. "Huang's World" stuck in the cape.
♪♪
So, is this your first clam bake?
Yeah, I guess my first New England clam bake.
But I will say this, man.
Even though it's hot as hell right now, over at that sand dune is ice-cold rosÃ©
- and Bud Heavy. - I like rosÃ©.
And there's Harrison up there, buildin' the fire.
- Harrison! - Yo. What's up, man?
- Harrison, this is Eddie. - I'm Eddie.
- Nice to meet you, dude. - Nice to meet you.
- Yeah. - Gettin' the fire goin' now.
We're gonna do it kinda new-school - With a washbin. - Uh-huh.
Nice. Just put it on top of the fire.
Wait, Harrison, you cook in a restaurant and stuff?
No. But I sell food to restaurants.
- You watch a lot of "Top Chef"? - No, I'm kidding.
No! ...you!
No. But you sell... What do you sell to restaurants?
I sell a lot of mushrooms and truffles to...
Oh. I thought you were gonna say "cocaine."
Yeah.
So we're pretty much just layering in the order of time it'll take to cook.
Yes.
- The... the things that take - Longer to cook, You put on the bottom.
And then really, you're almost cooking the mussels
- and clams with steam. - Correct.
Traditionally, a clam bake is with rockweed.
You're bringing heat on the bottom.
And then you're covering it with aromatics
to steam it from the top. This is very intuitive.
Yeah. Well, the clam bake really came around,
I mean, cooking with fire on the beach, seafood, it's... it's a Native American,
- really, a Wampanoag... - Yeah.
I... I... I'm gonna call it a Wampanoag...
- Wampanoag, yeah. - Wampanoag technique.
Um, I mean, I'm sure native cultures around the world have, you know,
- done something similar. - Mm-hmm.
And... but it's cool to go back and look at the history because it took them
- hundreds of years - To develop these techniques.
And there's a reason why.
Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Some help? - Yeah. Let's do it.
All right.
♪♪
If you go back and you look at this,
everyone contributed to what's going on in that pot.
- Absolutely. - Native Americans, The original puritans, the Portuguese.
Everyone contributed. And that's... that's how we really win. You know?
Absolutely.
- It's a beautiful thing to see. - Break bread.
- Yeah. Exactly. - Yeah.
- This is American food. - This is America, yeah.
Yeah.
♪♪
The lobster is so sweet and tender.
But what I really like is he used the seawater to cook it.
So it's in its own element. And the flavors really come out.
Yo, Tom. You gonna be proud.
I'm not eatin' any rice.
I ate all lobsters, clams, you... mussels. No nightshade.
I'm stickin' to the TB12.
♪ God bless America ♪
♪ My home sweet home ♪
♪♪
We here at a baseball game here in Yarmouth because baseball is America's pastime.
And the move for baseball to be "designated" America's
pastime really happened after the Civil War
because after the Civil War, there was a huge move
to create unity. And it made sense.
But a few symptoms started to come out of it.
And one thing you started to see was a monoculture
that became extremely oppressive during that period
as well as huge economic inequality and wealth gaps
that still remain in America today.
One person we're gonna talk to whose family's been comin' to Cape Cod
for three generations is Susannah Emerson.
And she's gonna talk to us about what she's seen through the years.
Cape Cod baseball league, and the NCAA promotes good sportsmanship
by student athletes, coaches and spectators.
What is the history of your family?
Because not everybody gets to come to the Cape for the summer.
So my grandpa was a banker.
And he married my grandmother, who was kind of, um,
from this Delaware socialite family.
- Uh-huh. - And they made a lot Of their money in chemical manufacturing.
- Okay. - And they had a summerhouse here.
And for the most part, the people who they interacted
with were other people from really prominent families
in their kind of local communities and then all gathered here.
The American aristocracy.
- Yeah. - They came to the Cape.
They're part of the history here.
- A lot of them, yeah. - And... and it's, like, By coming here, you rub elbows.
And you become part of the society.
- Yeah. - And it's very insular.
And you even look at the infrastructure.
And, like, there's a one-lane highway that takes you out.
You can't get beyond Hyannis.
Did they make it intentionally difficult...
- Yes. - For people to come participate in this?
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
And there's something that's soul-crushing
about realizing that you're on the wrong side of that.
- Yes. - Yeah.
And there's no better place that distills
that feeling, that, like, icky whatever it is...
- Yeah. - For me better than Cape Cod.
But the cool thing, though, is that you're talking about it.
And you recognize. And you're aware.
And people like you can do something about it.
Right.
You know, like, you have your fashion line.
And you wanna employ all different types of people.
You want to make things for all different types of people.
Yeah. I'm not gonna apologize for loving Cape Cod because I do.
Yeah.
And that's a really genuine thing.
I am going to take accountability - for what the means for other people. - Uh-huh.
I wanna be honest with myself about what my lifestyle means
- and in a broader context. - And the effect that it has on other people.
And the effect that it has on other people.
- Yeah. - Exactly.
♪♪
So, you... you told us about this
- Hurler Burger I wanna check out. - What is this?
- There are two doughnuts. - And then inside... - Uh-huh.
They're, like, jelly-filled doughnuts.
And, it's, uh, it's a cheeseburger inside that.
Oh, wow. I heard a lot about this Hurler Burger.
What's up? Nice to meet you. I wanted to come try it.
So this is a burger in a doughnut?
- Exactly. - What's your favorite doughnut - To put the burger in? - The Hurler.
The Hurler has been, by far, the... the, uh...
No. I mean, like, which doughnut do you like puttin' it in?
- Do you... - The Hurler. - The Hurler's the 4-ounce USDA
Grade A all-beef patty cooked to your exact specifications,
- decadently topped - With 1 ounce of hot Cajun... - No. I mean, like, what kind
Like a Boston Creme donut.
In the heart of a jelly doughnut!
Okay. Oh.
Oh! You didn't wait.
- Okay, good. What's your favorite? - The jelly doughnut is my favorite.
All right.
I'm goin' with his favorite.
What he really meant to say was, "the Hurler."
- The Hurler. - The Hurler's my favorite.
All right. I'll do jelly Hurler.
- So you wanna do the Hurler? - Yeah.
- We'll do the Hurler. - Okay.
Yeah.
Stitches on the fastball. Huh?
Mm-mm.
All right, Hurler up!
Well, welcome to the dark side.
Mm, mm!
Delicious.
♪♪
I will say this. It was a very well-cooked hamburger.
Like, I wasn't that into dude's, like, shtick.
Like, you know, his employees were like, "I like the jelly."
- He's like, "It's called - A Hurler Burger!" - Hurler Burger.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And I just feel like That's mildly oppressive.
You know what I mean? Just... you be like, "Dude, we get what you're sayin'."
He reminds me of, like, my boss
when I worked at Boston Market, you know what I mean?
Who was like, "Don't put your hands in the sweet potatoes when you do ecstasy!"
I was like, "Wh... why not? This feels pretty natural."
Yeah. Imagine that.
Yeah.
I just gotta go sing "God Bless America" now.
- Oh! - Yeah.
Fans, at this time, I ask that you all please rise
and remove your caps for the singing of "God Bless America."
Fans, please, welcome to Red Wilson Field:
Eddie Huang!
Thank you, Rob Maclnnis.
I'm a, uh, very accomplished karaoke singer.
So hopefully, this goes well.
♪ God bless America ♪
♪ Land that I love ♪
♪ Stand beside her and guide her ♪
♪ Through the night with the light from above ♪
♪ From the mountains to the prairies ♪
♪ To the oceans white with foam ♪
♪ God bless America ♪
♪ My home sweet home ♪
♪ From the mountains to the prairies ♪
♪ To the oceans white with foam ♪
♪ God bless America ♪
♪ My home sweet home ♪
♪ God bless America ♪
♪ My home sweet home ♪
Fans, how about a nice round of applause Thank you!
For Eddie Huang!
Thanks man.
What do you do for a day job?
Uh, I make sandwiches.
Don't give it up.
Yeah. Yeah.
- It sucked! - No. I tried.
You didn't try shit.
No, no no. I'm not doin' comedy. I'm trying.
Get the... out.
Yeah. Everybody's got their opinion, Eddie.
Hey, I didn't try to... Hey. No, no. I... I talked to the producers yesterday.
I asked them if this was legit.
And that was not legit.
What... what do you mean?
You don't know "God Bless America"?
No, no. I know it. But I was nervous up there.
I wanna... I wanna see the producers upstairs.
- Hey. - I wanna see everybody.
- Hey, hey. Hold up. - I wanna see... I wanna see everybody upstairs right now.
- I'm not trying to make a funny thing about it. - ...you.
- Fine. Yeah, sure. - Everybody, please.
Singin' "God Bless America" is not a joke.
I was hopin' that they were throwin' your asses outta here.
Owner:
I don't care who you are, dude, and what you run on a show.
This is a family entertainment.
- I... - It's not a... comedy show.
Sir, I want you to know, I apol... I did not mean to offend anyone.
- What the hell? - I just want to... There's no intention to offend you.
- Now, you guys respect us... - You cannot laugh.
You do not laugh during "God Bless America" ever.
- This is a blessing in a song. - I'm sorry.
We have veterans here.
We have people that have served this country.
And you should... know that.
Now batting, the first baseman... Sir, we're not here to offend you.
- Then what happened? - What the hell happened? - I'm not...
- You assured me. - He got nervous. He got nervous, man.
- It's like... - You got nervous?
- Yeah. - You said you would practice it.
I did practice. We have video of me
- practicing all day. - We filmed him practice all day.
Well, I hope it was a lot... better than it was out there.
I'm not a professional singer.
Guys, pack your cameras and get out.
Sure. Fine.
Fine.
Let's go.
Let's get the... outta here.
Bro, I didn't think it was that bad.
Did you?
Foraging has been a mainstay in my life.
I got one! I got one!
♪♪
What's really interesting about Cape Cod is that every single town or city
you go to in Cape Cod has its own feel.
Come to Martha's Vineyard. It's very sure of itself.
It has a confidence. It has diversity.
And it really feels like the Brooklyn of Cape Cod.
Despite dominant culture's best attempts to sterilize the cape,
the Wampanoag Native Americans have survived.
They are the heartbeat of this region.
And so many things that we call white or American actually come from this tribe.
We're gonna meet Juli Vanderhoop, who's gonna teach us how to feed ourselves
the way her family has fed itself from foot-to-mouth for generations.
Around the world, people know the quahog clam for clam chowder.
It's a hardy clam.
- And you can really cook it - And kind of beat
- it up a little bit if you would like. - Exactly. Exactly,
A lot of different tricks to it.
Well, we'll do the basics and, uh, stick to more traditional route today.
Cool. Let's check it out.
So let's go.
How would you characterize Martha's Vineyard?
It... it seems to be the one island in Cape Cod that Native American culture
still is very strong in.
Very strong.
This tribe, the Wampanoag, is probably, uh, about 1,200 people.
How is it that the Wampanoag have stayed strong?
Well, we are getting stronger.
And it's very important for us to, uh, continue our traditions.
- You do this a lot growin' up? - Yeah.
You know, foraging has been a mainstay in my life,
especially since when I was young.
We didn't pack lunches.
Yeah. This is cool.
This is, like, school lunch, like, "Oh. I found a beef patty."
Wait a second. I can get it.
It would've been.
- Tide's comin' in. - Should I go shirtless?
Is that gonna be more effective?
Yeah.
♪♪
Got one! I got a quahogs!
Yo!
I got two quahogs!
I got another one!
Now, I know why Obama vacations here.
- Awesome. - Yeah.
That was the most fun I've had in Cape Cod.
All right. So what are we makin', a clam chowder?
This is gonna be a clam chowder... Mm-hmm.
With a clear broth.
Okay. And you have a giant stone oven.
I've got my oven.
It's a little preheating, right here.
Hey, there.
Hey. How's it goin'?
- Good. - Look at this. - I'm Eddie.
- I'm Buddy. - Here's our catch. - Nice to meet you.
- This is your brother, Buddy, right? - It is.
- Fantastic. - So, Buddy, we heard a lot about... This guy is a fishing legend.
I fished the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass - & Bluefish Derby. - Mm-hmm.
And I've won nine of the last 17.
Wow.
I won in 2002 with a 56-pounder.
You're like the Gregg Popovich of fishin'.
Martha's Vineyard, it's not, like, reservation-style living.
It feels much less developed than the other parts of Cape Cod.
One good thing about it is you gotta have 2 acres of property to build on here.
And that keeps it from getting built up.
And my sister and my brothers and I were fortunate enough, with my grandfather,
to share his wealth and land and gave us our properties.
And it's a pretty special thing.
What was it like for you growin' up Wampanoag in America?
It was so unbelievable how I got picked on because I was an Indian.
Called me Tonto and Pocahontas and... Yeah.
- All the... all the... - Yeah.
Cruel stuff kids can do.
And I had to take matters into my own hands sometime
because they were trying to bully me.
And my father told me if I come home
with my ass kicked, he was gonna kick it again.
So it was a hard time.
But I had to do this by myself
because I was the only kid that who was gonna help me out.
- Yeah. - Everybody else was pickin' on Indians.
♪♪
- Sultana potatoes here - For the chowder. - Right.
- Yeah. - And this is from her garden, you know?
She... she does a lot of herbs.
We've got sage and rosemary.
This technique, is this a Native American technique?
An American-Indian-Wampanoag.
Oh, awesome.
Specific to this region.
- Okay. - We have... we have beautiful land.
And we can live off of it.
And sustainable living is the whole fad of everybody.
- But... - But this is - Your lifestyle forever.
Yeah. We're... this has been our lifestyle always.
♪♪
And here's the big question.
Do... do you watch "Huang's World"?
All right.
Good show.
Smells good.
Wow. You know, most chowder, you get super thick, super creamy.
You look at a clear stock like this, you'd think it doesn't have the flavor
of that thick, creamy chowder.
But it is so powerful.
The aroma... That's the most flavorful chowder I've ever had, honestly,
and clear stock.
The fresh rosemary is crazy on it.
Juli, I... I would say we really put our foot in this soup.
That's right. We really did.
Two feet.
Yeah!
That's right.
Nice pedicure.
- You gonna help me cut this collar off? - Yeah, the collar.
Yo. This is "Huang's World" Cape Cod.
And we at max.
♪♪
Oh, thanks, bro.
Have a good day at school.
Ah.
Good afternoon, reggae fans.
This is Skip Finley and the founder WYOB.
The soul of Martha's Vineyard, the Rhythm of the Rock.
Um, we're going live for a special occasion.
We have a young man here with us.
From the VICE channel, Eddie Huang is here as our guest today.
Thanks for havin' me, Skip.
I felt out of place my entire trip in Cape Cod
until we touched down to Martha's Vineyard.
- That's the first time I felt comfortable and safe. - Yeah.
- You know what I mean? - Yeah. I very much know what you mean.
It... it's funny. We have a saying here is...
is when we leave the island. And you have to do it.
You gotta get on a plane to get on a boat.
That's when we go back to America 'cause we don't have that stuff over here.
Yeah. What is it about Oak Bluffs that you love?
Oak Bluffs, um, it's... it's a greater sense of freedom, - I felt. - Mm-hmm.
And a lot of it has to do with, you know, the State of Massachusetts was the first
or second to outlaw slavery. And that has carried over.
You know, we're livin' on an island that's never had slaves.
We're surrounded by that moat.
It's essentially a safe place, particularly if you're a person of color.
Would you say that Oak Bluffs is a community
that African-American around the nation know about and kind of aspire to?
Aspire to, yes. Know about, no.
That's kind of a new phenomenon.
And it's new since the... since the president started coming.
But there's several other regions, black resort areas around the country.
But Oak Bluffs is the one that's endured, you know, all of this time.
It's a real homegrown black community.
Very much so. I wanna talk to you some more, you know.
But I wanna let listeners get back to their reggae.
Oh, yeah. Sorry about that.
So, ladies and gentlemen, keep it tuned in, WYOB, 105.5 FM,
the soul of Martha's Vineyard, the Rhythm of the Rock.
Back to the music.
Nice.
I built this specifically to teach high-school kids how to do professional radio.
- Nice. - So we did it with a reggae format.
And the kids pick all the reggae songs?
They do all of it now. He's the program director.
Wow. So you get a... you get a education in radio and reggae.
Exactly.
Uh, I... I mean, that's really all you need in life.
- Exactly. - What's it been like bein'
On Skip's radio station?
Uh, it's a little different.
But I like doin' the radio station.
It gives me a good outlet, you know?
His mom called one day.
And she's cryin'. And she says, you know, "This is so cool, what you're doin'.
This kid never wanted to do anything before.
Now, all he talks about is radio."
- Yeah. - That feels good.
♪♪
- What's the deal? - This is a bakery during the day?
- During the front, it's a bakery. - Yeah.
So back in the late '60s, um,
we could smell the doughnuts cookin'. We were all stoned.
So we'd all come over here and knock on the door
and beg 'em, "Please, please. Let us have a doughnut."
- Yeah. - "Please, - Let us have a doughnut."
- But... - So they finally started doin' it.
- What are we gonna get? - Apple fritter And a buttermilk.
- Wow. - There you go.
There's some weight to this. This is, like, four piece...
five, six pieces of apple in here.
Like, there's actual apple.
You know, you get an apple fritter...
- And it's... and it's warm. - It's just apple flavor? No!
No, it's real apple.
Mm!
Wow.
All right. Y'all know, you get an apple fritter sometimes.
It's just hard and crunchy and dry?
Soft, and it pulls.
How's it taste?
Like a real butt.
Yeah. Yeah.
Frank's butt, you just gotta butt and no thighs.
Throw some sugar in it. Right.
This has got thighs.
Mmm!
♪♪
So we were drivin' through Wellfleet.
And we got a tip that Max has a 450-pound tuna
they're about to take the collar off and sear for us.
Wow.
So what we're gonna do is you're gonna help me
- cut this collar off... - Yeah, the collar.
Which is the best part.
- All right. So you wanna hold - Your knife... - Yup.
So your elbow's as close as you can.
So you can come through on this other side and not puncture any of the flesh.
And you're just gonna... Right to the end.
- All the way down. - Right to the end.
You got it.
- Ah! - Yeah. Nice.
Yeah. Yeah.
Wow. Look at the fat.
Delicious!
You the executive sushi chef here, Juan?
- Yes, sir. - Where are you from?
- Mexico. - How'd you find your way up here?
Just... They helped me out. They find me.
- And now, you can work out here. - Yes, sir.
Love it, man. Love it. Love it.
We do the H2B program which is a huge part of the Cape Cod community
because our labor pool is really small here.
- Yeah. - We're lucky enough to find Juan and...
And bunch of other guys from Mexico that come up and help us out every year.
To hear a restaurant operator like yourself saying,
"Hey. We actually need people to do these jobs."
That's important. Thanks, man.
- Thank you. Appreciate it. - Appreciate it.
- Thank you, guys. - Thank you, Juan.
Well, let's... let's eat. Let's eat this, man.
♪♪
Here it comes.
Wow. Crazy.
Broiled at 550 for almost a half hour.
Once it's cooked, it comes out lookin' like steak.
How fatty that tuna is!
If you've had hamachi collar, hamachi collar is great.
And it's firm.
But tuna collar is so much more luscious and... and deep. Incredible.
This parade gives me hope That we can actually make America great again.
- Eddie: - CV, can you explain to us this outfit that you have on today?
'Cause today is the day of the, uh, Provincetown Parade.
Yes.
And you don't seem like you're in the spirit.
I ran out of all my boxing gear.
And I didn't do laundry, sadly.
So I guess we're, uh, the PAs are grabbing us very cool...
Very coincidental, you ran out of gear the day of the parade.
- Yeah. - And you came to work with this "All Lives Matter" outfit.
This looks hateful, bro.
All right. We're gonna get CV an outfit.
We have sent the AP because we need you in the '80s gay spirit.
The last stop on this trip is Provincetown because white monoculture
doesn't just have an opinion about your race or your class
but also your sexual orientation.
And Provincetown has one of the biggest LGBT communities in all of America.
So, today is the Provincetown Parade.
We're meeting up here at the Off-Site Kitchen for the Canteen.
And we're going to make turkey sandwiches here using Rob and Loic's kitchen.
- Definitely. What's up, Loic? - How are you?
This region's known for Thanksgiving.
So that's why we're gonna make the Hen-rock turkey sandwiches.
We spatchcocked the turkey, roast the turkey off, slice it,
used dark meat and white meat, make some stuffing,
make my Hennessy gravy on top of it.
Then we're gonna put some muenster cheese over it and press it like a panini.
What brought you guys to Provincetown?
I moved to Boston to work for "The Boston Globe's" editorial page.
I came to Provincetown on vacation my 3rd week here.
I met Loic my 3rd hour here in Provincetown.
Well, I had a small catering business that I had started out of my little kitchen
with my best friend.
And one of our first dates was coinciding with this job I had.
- You worked on your first date? - Yeah. Yeah.
- Pretty much, yeah. - You... you know, like,
Provincetown has always been the place in Cape Cod that's more liberal, more open.
I think that's cool is that it's fun.
But it's also not out of control.
Today, they may see an out-of-control day.
Eh.
♪♪
It is pretty out-of-control. So, today, right now as we speak,
100,000 people are making their way to Provincetown.
And they are all going to jam themselves on Commercial Street.
But Provincetown's outsiders or, like, status,
is what you're talking about, started hundreds of years ago.
Like, this was the first place the Pilgrims landed.
And it's known today as an LGBT community.
But I think it's deeper than that.
Like, there's a tradition of just sort of acceptance and a love of outsiders.
Yeah, beautiful.
- And thanks for welcoming us - In here, man.
- Sure. - Really appreciate it.
It's what Provincetown is all about.
- Like, it's what... - Yeah. That's a good example, too.
Yeah.
♪♪
Boom.
So, I'm first.
- Yeah. You first. - All right. Let's see here.
Then I'll serve the boys.
How is it?
Mmm! It's really good.
- What would the Pilgrims - Say about this?
You know, the Pilgrims should enjoy this.
- Yeah. - But seeing as what happened To this country over the last 200 years,
they probably would not like this.
♪♪
I don't look for the familiar when I travel.
I don't travel to escape.
And I think that throughout America's history,
what you see is people focusing on characteristics and cultural elements
to try to define people as different and something to fear
and something to protect yourself from.
But what we should be protecting ourselves from
is monoculture and a sterilizing of our identities.
But this parade in this community, Provincetown, gives me hope that we can actually
make America great again and get back to the values that we believe in,
which is open-mindedness, open arms and the idea that anyone can be American.
♪♪
Oh, my god, help this mother...
Dude... Yo, Stop it. This is, like...
Uh, honestly, this nightshade vegetable thing,
like, uh, if I wanna eat eggplant ice cream, I'm gonna... eat eggplant ice cream.
All right, Tom? Stop callin' me.
Like, you're makin' me feel fat.
- We got it. - All right. Cool.
We got it. I know you guys are havin' me here all day. I got shit to do.