Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don’t see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil.

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful.

It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.