. >> i am very involved in the cannonnation the friars let me have his ring after he passed away. >> a francis can. >> yes, 40 years from 1958 to 1998 and we had beatification 1998, presented john paul two and was able to meet the holy father afterwards. >> is there anything to clear up about father sarah? about his good work that some times is misinterpreted? >> often sarah's detractors, good scholarship is undoing a lot of claims so when cannonnization comes the news media won't go for sensationalism he was a holy man who lived a holy life here in california but that is only 15 years of his life he was as many years in mexico and 35 years in spain but the one thing i would want to say about sarah, today sarah, when we find a good person in a very very bad situation, you know often we will find school teachers, some times media will do a story about a school teacher down atkin coast copying papers -- kinkos copying papers out of a textbook because they can't afford textbooks. sarah was like that a very very good man in a bad institution we call colonialism. >> this is a great story

there was an honor society law school, the friar society. among the first women to be inducted into that. but you know this had to come from somewhere. and i'm wondering if you can tell us hat the, for you the intellectual, the gottyou from who you were. >> yeah. >> .to, to this. >> well, the short version of that story is that i never thought i would go to law school. i was planning on doing graduate work in comparative3 literature. and. >> made a good choice, by the way. >> well, i think so actually. and then i went to.and so i graduated and i was all accepted. >> yeah. >> and i was going to go to grad school. but i spent the summer doing what i should have done before, i had a job at rice. and i would spend extra time in the library looking at the comparative literature journals. and after a while i thought, oh my gosh, someone has justt3 spent three years of their life producing this. >> yeah. >> and. >> i better go to law school. >> you know it just, you know, i thought i and two other people are going to read it. and so i really realiz

tv commercial and it's going to be lousy verses am i going to hit large fries as opposed to medium friars. [laughter] so it didn't bother me so much. yes, ma'am. >> i just want to give you a little encouragement and let you know i bought your book solely on the premise and i didn't know you were coming here to speak so i was very surprised when you did come. and highlight come it is a very funny book but i liked your insight. you kind of spoke as if you were those people working in the minimum wage and you gave me an idea of these people that i look at when i go into the grocery store with a wal-mart or whatever, and i really appreciate that. my question is did you attempt to live on a minimum wage or did you do some mind processing on what a budget of minimum wage would allow you to purchase and how you would live? >> first let me thank you for your comment. i tried to do that as i wrote. i'm sure all of you being readers are familiar with pat conroy, and he has the biggest heart in the world and he is a guy who when he's not writing he's running around trying to fix the world because he

we are a few blocks down from you also on the main drag at hands on friar. this is linda's establishment. you sell gore may cookware and you have a cooking school in the back. >> we do. >> reporter: today is cinco de mayo. what do we have? >> devilled shrimp. start with salsa this morning. we are going to make a nice mango salsa. i'm going to preheat the pan. let's get all the mango in there. how about half that tomato. can't have salsa without pretty color. put half of that in there. it's looking good. let's add some heat. nice hajalapenos. half the onion. this is a white onion so it's sweeter. cilantro. can't do without cilantro. looks beautiful. squeeze lime on it to give it acidity. >> reporter: if you think i'm good with this, you should see me with pb & j. >> excellent. that looks terrific. a little bit of salt and pepper. a pinch of that in there. that looks great. >> reporter: all right. >> excellent. now give it a stir. >> reporter: is this kind of how it works if i go to your cooking class? >> absolutely. we like hands on so you know how you did th