I learned to recognize failure.
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me . . .
Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife.
Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever
And I've long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk.
Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is availab...
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.
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
The menu selections for my brother and me expanded somewhat, to include steak-frites and steak hache (hamburger).
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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.
I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
I love the saying Nobody likes a dirty old man or a clean little boy.
I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able—if called upon to do so—to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that kind...
Shortcut.’ The word filled me with dread. When has a shortcut ever worked out as planned? The word – in a horror film at least – usually precedes disembowelment and death. A ‘shortcut’ almost never le...
Life without stock is barely worth living, and you will never attain demi-glace without
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while aft...
