I Am A Buddhist, Therefore I Should

When You Are 25, 30, You Know, You Have No Responsibility, No Mortgage, No Kids, No Retirement To Think About, Nothing.

I Have Very Vivid Memories Of Being A Young Child. My Mother Would Create Dinner As For Us, And When She Would Bake, She Would Leave Some Dough For Me. I Would Roll The Dough Into Little Sticks While She Was Cooking The Apple Tart Of Whatever. I Was Looking Through The Window Of The Oven And Flipping The Light, And Then My Bread Would Come Out, And It Was Inedible, Of Course.

Money Is Not Necessarily, Although It Helps A Lot For Happiness, It’s Not Necessarily The Best Way To Be Happy, To Be Rich, You Know.

When I Started To Work In Paris In Fine Dining, The Passion Really Kicked In, And I Knew That I Would Not, For The Rest Of My Life, Do Anything Else.

We Lived In St. Tropez When I Was Young, And There Were A Lot Of Vietnamese Refugees In France At The Time, After The War. My Mother Had Many Vietnamese Friends Who Entertained A Lot, And She Was Taught How To Make That Spring Roll. She Would Make Them All The Time.