People are not hungry because we dont produce enough. People are hungry for political reasons.
Tom ColicchioI call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.
Tom ColicchioAsian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, โฆ but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor thatโs usually working in Asian food.
Tom ColicchioI think the patterns are set very early when the kids are young. But at the same time, there are some flavors kids just don't like.
Tom ColicchioWhen I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The older you get, you figure out you don't need to do that. You realize at a certain point, there's a certain gravity to what you say and what you do. If that's not enough, all the yelling in the world is not going to matter.
Tom Colicchio