The Objective.. Is To Achieve A Comfort

The Idea Of Having Dinner Together Every Day With Your Family Removes The Pressure From Trying To Explain Everything. You Tell Us The Good Parts About Your Day, But You Also Tell Us The Bad Parts About Your Day. And At The End Of That, Because You're In A Ritual, You Remove The Pressure Of Admitting You Had A Failure That Day. And It Also Takes The Wind Out Of Having A Great Day. I Mean, It Makes You A Little Bit More Normal All The Time. That Moment Of Therapeutic Sharing Is Something That Happens In Food, That Doesn't Necessarily Happen When You're Watching Tv.

The Pendulum Of Cookery Techniques Became More Significant Than The Actual Experience. And When That Happens, The Customer's Satisfaction Becomes Secondary To The Chef's Satisfaction. And In That Case, You Have An Upside-down Equation. Because The Customer Is The Basis Of Our Restaurant, First Of All, And If The Chef Becomes The Most Important Person At The Table - Even More So Than The Guests - Then Suddenly You're Left With Something That Doesn't Really Work.

I Am Happiest When I Am With My Wife, Susi, And Our Two Boys Exploring And Loving Something For The First Time.

The Very Common Error Of Young Or Unconfident Cooks Is To Keep Putting More Of Their Own Personal Ideology Into A Plate Until There's So Much Noise That You Really Can't Even Hear A Tune. You Can Say More In An Empty Space Than You Can In A Crowded One.

Bologna Is The Best City In Italy For Food And Has The Least Number Of Tourists. With Its Medieval Beauty, It Has It All.