i said hi, my name is marja. your house? the phone went silent. i said hello, i thought he hung up on me. maybe it's a wrong number. i'm thinking all these things, i hear him yelling, your daughter is on the phone. she picked up the phone and fainted. she reunited and a past she soon tasted. >> the first thing she did is feed me, she whisked me back to the apartment in brooklyn and she was like you used to eat, these used to be your favorite things, she made some thinly sliced marinated beef and this flood of memories in my taste buds just, it was amazing. i just knew i had those tastes before. i haven't had kimchi like that in 17 years. >> reporter: what do you love most about cooking? >> kind of like my meditation. i love that you're nourishing people you love and it's my heart i'm giving you. you got a piece of my heart here. >> reporter: true soul food, connections to forgotten crumbs of her past now savored over meals. >> she learned to cook with her birth mother and aunt. we brought some for you today. >> w