- Infiltration! I like it!
[laughs]
That would be a good word.
[laughs]
I think there's a little bit of both.
So there's influence happening.
I mean certainly just in terms of myself and
how I think about the things that I want to create
that influence is going in multiple ways.
I hope that I can bring some influence to a larger audience.
Because there's such a rich,
so many rich traditions in the south.
And those are the--
kind of my home traditions in a way.
And they're the ones that...
are inspiring to me.
For example, and I just like to,
I like to play with these ideas.
I like for people to have the opportunity
to have fun with what they're eating.
A sense of wonder.
So I'm a little obsessed with cream puffs now.
I never thought about a cream puff before,
but these are huge in Wisconsin.
And at the fairs,
it's such an iconic Wisconsin thing.
We've got a number of iconic Wisconsin food items for sure,
but right now that is on my mind.
So how can I bring the southern influence in.
I think about what kinds of feeling can I do.
Like some kind of brown sugar filling for these things?
What sort of flavor elements can I bring into something
that's already familiar to Wisconsinites?