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i have chocolate in my mouth. emeril lagasse will become a regular correspondent and food contributor to us. he joins our "good morning america" family. >> bam. >> give it up for emeril. >> i love the hair. >> maybe some olive oil, george. >> it was working. you and tom bergeron. what do we got today? >> we're going to lsh the ladies are not waiting. they're gone. so growing up, we used to have this thing called pimento -- it's a person sauce. we take peppers, not too hot. cook them down. >> they have a kick to them. >> we're going the make a pork roast. this was a dish growing up my mom and dad used to make all the time. you're going to take a pork roast. score it. >> this is a portuguese dish? >> yes. we're going to take garlic and smear the garlic all over it. and then, now we're going to take some cilantro first. and we're going to take this pepper sauce and we're going to baste it like this. and what we do, 375 degrees. we're going to roast this. and this is -- what you want to do is do this a day before and let it marinate. in a zipped bag or plastic wrap. and you want to roast

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