The Restaurant Industry Is Brutal.

When You Start At Catering College, Nobody Prepares You For A Book Tour Or Public Speaking.

Summer's The Same, Autumn Is Even More Extreme. Then Winter Is When You Sort Of Condense All Of Your Ideas. You Process All These Things And You Try To Look For New Concepts. In That Sense, Your Intuition Is In Hibernation. What You Fill Up Is Your Imagination; You Fill Up Your Memories There.

The First Book Was Out And For The First Time We Were On A Book Tour. Being The Son Of An Immigrant, I'd Never Dreamt Of Being On Book Tours. Suddenly The Attention Was Huge.

People Will Travel Anywhere For Good Food - It's Crazy.

That's How People Make Sense Of A Meeting: They Eat Something. If They Were In A Sad Moment It Would Be The Same Thing, They'd Be Eating Something. It's What Makes Life Fun. We Don't Need It To Be Delicious Or Great Or All These Things If We're Just To Survive. But It's One Of Those Things That Makes Life Fun, Livable. And The More I Submerge Myself In It, The More Fun I Seem To Have.