I Came Up From A Difficult Background.

What's Frustrating More Than Anything Is When Chefs Start To Cut Corners And Believe That They Are Incognito In The Way They Send Out Appetizers, Entrees, And They Know It's Not 100 Percent, But They Think The Customers Can't Spot It.

[long Island] Is Buoyant, It's On The Outskirts Of Manhattan, And So They Have Access To Phenomenal Restaurants.

I Train My Chefs With A Blindfold. I'll Get My Sous Chef And Myself To Cook A Dish. The Young Chef Would Have To Sit Down And Eat It With A Blindfold. If They Can't Identify The Flavor, They Shouldn't Be Cooking The Dish.

It Goes Back To The Early Days In The Kitchen Where You Would Be Tasting Dishes All Night Long, So The Last Thing I Want To Do In The Morning Is Eat. Chefs Generally Tend To Be Grazers.

I Hate It When People Just Downright Copy. I Hate It.