You Have To Be Generous If You

The Italians Were Eating With Forks When The French Were Still Eating Each Other.

You Sit Down At Katz's And You Eat The Big Bowl Of Pickles And You're Eating The Pastrami Sandwich, And Halfway Through You Say To Yourself, I Should Really Wrap This Up And Save It For Tomorrow. But The Sandwich Is Calling You: Remember The Taste You Just Had. So Fatty. It's What You Want. It's What You Are! I've Never Gotten Home From Katz's With A Doggie Bag In My Hand. A Pastrami Sandwich At Katz's Is What's Bad And Good About Food. It's The Sacred And The Profane.

You Have To Be Generous If You Want To Spend Your Time Making Someone Else Dinner. Even If You're Charging, You're Still Giving.

I Can Tell In Two Minutes If I Should Hire Someone In The Kitchen. Two Minutes. It's His Desire. It's That Open-eyed, Attentive Expression. If He Doesn't Have It ... I Mean, I Can Teach A Chimp How To Cook Dinner. But I Cannot Teach A Chimp How To Love It.

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.