When You Start At Catering College, Nobody

I Can't Crack Jokes Because I Don't Have Any.

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.

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

I Started To Change. It Was Sort Of A Restaurant Mid-life Crisis, You Could Say. I Lost A Lot Of Confidence, Not So Much As A Father Or As A Friend, But As A Boss, As A Chef That's To Make Decisions Throughout The Day All The Time. I Just Slowly Started Burning Out. Once You Lose Your Confidence Like That, You Start Being Angry In The Kitchen. I Couldn't Recognize Myself Anymore. I Started Writing The Journal. It Was Never Meant To Be A Book, But The Editor At Phaidon Read Parts Of It. As Editors Do, I Guess.

21 Years Ago When I Started Cooking, To Be A Cook Meant That You Were Going To Stay In The Basement. Being A Chef, You Would Never Be On A Book Tour. You Could Never Dream That 20 Years Later On You Would Be On A Book Tour. It Wasn't A Part Of Your Dreams Because It Was Just Totally Unrealistic. When Did Cooks - Restaurant Cooks, Not Cooks That Have 15,000 Television Shows - When Did Cooks Become Part Of Pop Culture The Way They Are?