You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.
You'd never never never again work for that manipulative, Machiavellian psychopath. And he'd get you back on the team, often with a gesture as simple and inexpensive as a baseball cap or a T-shirt. Th...
With my little short-shorts a permanent affront, I was quickly becoming a sullen, moody, difficult little bastard.
Whachoo want, white boy? Burn cream? A Band-Aid?Then he raised his own enormous palms to me, brought them up real close so I could see them properly; the hideous constellation of water-filled blisters...
The menu selections for my brother and me expanded somewhat, to include steak-frites and steak hache (hamburger).
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
I often use the hypothetical out-of-control ice-cream truck. What would happen if you were walking across the street and were suddenly hit by a careening Mister Softee truck? As you lie there, in your...
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me . . .
People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.
Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. A...
With skull-and-crossbones painted in chicken blood.
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
To have a child is to give fate a hostage.
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
Regina Schrambling is both hero and villain. My favorite villain, actually. The former New York Times and LA Times food writer and blogger is easily the Angriest Person Writing About Food. Her weekly...
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
Line cooks are the heroes.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Inarguably, a successful restaurant demands that you live on the premises for the first few years, working seventeen-hour days, with total involvement in every aspect of a complicated, cruel and very...
I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.