claudette zepeda-wilkins: american is a relative term. what is american? personally i think the border is, you know, just a speed bump in between two countries. as a child, i think we took tj for granted not because it was a different country to me. to me, it was just like, "oh, it's just tj. it's where the other half of my family lives." and even if i was in tj my entire life, being this far north, you are sort of removed from the other parts of mexico and the culture. you're mexican, but you don't really kno my last restaurant was mexican, and we were all mexican, and we all were cooking things that were new to us because unless you're exposed to it as a child or you live it, it's foreign to you, even though it's mexican. claudette: have you ever butchered a fish before? no? oh. you're gonna learn today. ok, we'll do this one right now, and then we'll butcher another one, so we can run it as a special if we have time. troy johnson: claudette is really invaluable to san diego because she is a local, she's a native. you know, and there are a lot of people