Ep. 110: Chef Von & Marcus Moody – Coming Home, Food, Race in Scranton, and No Filter
Chef Ryan “Von” Smith is back on What A Week! with cousin Marcus Moody. They eat, talk trash, and then go where a chef interview usually will not. This episode is about coming home after you’ve already seen the rest of the world, growing up Black in Scranton, East Side versus West Side, family history that does not make the brochure, and why Von still will not pretend the city is easy just because he built a restaurant here. Next Level Chef is in the mix. So are God, church, slurs, old-school di...
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