Michigan Is My Antidote To Manhattan. This

I Love Simple Food. I Like To Serve The Entire Animal, Not Only Because It Somehow Provokes A Customer To Think About It, But Also Because To Honor Of The Animal That Has Been Killed For Us To Eat, You Have To Eat The Whole Thing. It Would Be Silly To Just Eat The Chops And Throw Everything Else Away.

What Will Always Remain Is Love, Passion And Family Time.

The Objective.. Is To Achieve A Comfort Level Between The Cook/artist/performer And The Customer/viewer/diner. And If We Can Achieve That, And The Customers Are Happy And The Cooks Are Happy, Then We Have A Great Experience.

I Come From An Italian Family. One Of The Greatest And Most Profound Expressions We Would Ever Use In Conversations Or Arguments Was A Slamming Door. The Slamming Door Was Our Punctuation Mark.

Breakfast Is The Best Time For Me To Figure Out What My Kids Are Doing. Right After You Wake Them Up At Breakfast, You Pepper Them With Questions. You Can Get In There Because They're Not Protecting What They Thought Was Cool: "what Happened Yesterday?" "oh, Matthew Stole My Book And Ran Away And It Was Really Annoying..." That Wouldn't Happen After Lunch, Because Their Defenses Are Up. In The Morning, If You Lull Them Into A Comfortable Place, You Get More Honesty, And That's Without Being A Detective.