A Gastronomical Supermeal Didn't Necessarily Have To

21 Years Ago When I Started Cooking, To Be A Cook Meant That You Were Going To Stay In The Basement. Being A Chef, You Would Never Be On A Book Tour. You Could Never Dream That 20 Years Later On You Would Be On A Book Tour. It Wasn't A Part Of Your Dreams Because It Was Just Totally Unrealistic. When Did Cooks - Restaurant Cooks, Not Cooks That Have 15,000 Television Shows - When Did Cooks Become Part Of Pop Culture The Way They Are?

A Gastronomical Supermeal Didn't Necessarily Have To Involve The Things I Had Brought From Other Top Kitchens.

Summer's The Same, Autumn Is Even More Extreme. Then Winter Is When You Sort Of Condense All Of Your Ideas. You Process All These Things And You Try To Look For New Concepts. In That Sense, Your Intuition Is In Hibernation. What You Fill Up Is Your Imagination; You Fill Up Your Memories There.

Cooking, I Mean, Food, Cooking Foods Is Just Everything That I Do From Morning To Night. It's How I Choose To Live My Life: Through Cooking, People That Are In Food Culture. And I Love It.

I Had Turned Down Other Head Chef Jobs. I Didn't Want To Take Over Someone Else's Cuisine. I Wanted To Start From Scratch.