I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

Anyone can make a good roast chicken.

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

I have no formal culinary training, right.

I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.