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Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

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Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.

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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.

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I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

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Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

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The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

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Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

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My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

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Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

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When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Chef

Born: September 9th, 1960

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