Kelis Eats Ribs, Reveals How 'Food' Got Its Tasty Track Titles — rollingstone.com

For Kelis, cooking food and concocting records have never been that different — it's all about finding the right collaborators and putting your own stamp on the final product. The 34-year-old singer's mom was a chef, so the singer learned to cook at an early age, and growing up, when she needed recipe advice an expert was always a phone call away. "Before I went to culinary school, just being a young adult, I would call her and say, 'Hey Mom, how do you do this?'" she recalls from the kitchen of a house in Austin's Clarksville neighborhood, her home for the duration of South by Southwest, a festival at which she is not only playing three gigs but also preparing and serving ribs, sliders and coleslaw from the side of a food truck. "She would tell and I'd try to master it the way she did it. And you know, it's 15 years later and now I do it my way and she'll be like, 'No. You can't even call it that because it's just not that anymore. It's good, but don't call it that.'"

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