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How About a Scorpion With Your Cocktail?

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    NYC’s White & Church serves up unique cocktails with a side of bugs

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All right so Mattel -- and Christina Dini is here with us right now they have this fabulous place new.

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We have -- sad that we act two daughters Garmin is your and we express ourselves in different ways I -- doing cooking she does you know behind the -- OK so.

Believe eating bugs before you open a restaurant knowledge just that it comes from a study says she -- around two years ago.

As she started this spending Florence Italy.

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So they have all these proteins and see you start cooking with that.

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That's the when people come to to our place.

You know we like to could -- that I think we open minded.

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And she does as well in the -- so.

And I you're right you cooking that's -- it's nine cuisine that's what's so strange about it.

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OK people you know they have inside me want to express you and like for example doing this or -- they planned you know which is very all right.

Right -- people off -- you if you decide to open at age.

Restaurant in a town full of restaurants.

In in the middle of a struggling economy.

It's crazy taking shots all around so how did you where you sitting there thinking to yourself we have to do something to make us different well there's a lot of competition around yes.

So if you you know stuck up your hand -- you have.

Move you have to be different from the others and you open in -- which is a very hot part of town these days and rest on his way in search because that's the actual address right -- runs on our -- on -- -- still again you're in a very busy part of town what region even wanna do this.

The first things.

Basically because I'm here since.

Eleven years in new York and -- really.

Some of them -- American my mother is American fathers thought.

OK but I'm here since seven years and from my experience seen.

-- A lot of things and New York I must say that there is now everything so we need to bring even more -- More where.

And you things that people can you know can -- so we have we are capable to do it by.

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-- -- -- And Simmons said that people in many eating bugs three years it's not -- not -- why do you know chocolate and I know all over the place -- -- It was a Casey's is -- -- chocolate and lemon.

I don't know about that.

But how do you experiment with this how did you figure all this out that.

Candy scorpions were entities really what are the scorpions in the scorpions are in the -- -- -- blue -- with -- -- -- -- you as a -- you know.

One minute he's -- -- who have.

The -- I can't -- symbol -- that's him that's still -- didn't come to you that you know once the scorpions -- really good with -- Democrat.

You tried the necessity.

And then and and again.

When you know your ingredients.

You know you know like you know when you know you really and it's it's very difficult to to -- in the safe.

I think -- so now OK so you've been open for a couple weeks you've been busy.

While.

Coincided and it's basically -- nice and do you think -- going to myself how.

Did you fund this in this day and age where did you get the money to open it.

I had this I have to thank my partners.

I'm partner -- Family from Florence Italy it is the name isn't that easy.

And I have to thank them for giving us the chance of doing all these things and believe -- -- -- for what we do.

-- -- question now I think or whenever our team is gonna come he's gonna well those here -- don't have any intervening in the in my stead.

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