00:00I went from a guy, you know, broke, always been, had been broke, never insured, never
00:05owned anything, perpetually in debt, hard-working guy, to overnight, the guy with the best job
00:12in the world.
00:30In my world view, food certainly plays a role, hopefully, in bringing some kind of enlightenment
00:34and understanding and openness and appreciation of other cultures.
01:30My cooking career and chef career started in the 70s and proceeded up until 2001.
01:37You know, I was living paycheck to paycheck, I was living the way, you know, college kids
02:02live.
02:18I had no security, no possessions, never owned a car, never had health insurance, and I was
02:28pretty set, I mean, as comfortable as one can be with that situation, I mean, that's
02:34where I was at age 44.
03:04I'd like to say that the smell of the steam table and the griddle is still pretty fresh
03:17in memory, and I guess in some ways it informs, you know, how I live my life now.
04:04The layover is our own dysfunctional attempt to do a straight travelogue, meaning I go
04:19someplace and do things that you yourself can do.
04:32Ultimately it's coming to terms with how my life has changed in the 10 years since
04:34Kitchen Confidential, which is to say, completely changed.
04:48The whole system that I came up with abhorred waste, encouraged us to make the most of every
05:06ingredient, and so to see that between 25 or 30% of all the food we manufacture and
05:13raise in this country ends up thrown in the garbage, I find that personally offensive.
05:36I'm devastating, I couldn't believe it.
05:39He was one of the best on it for all the shows on it, and every Sunday I enjoyed watching
05:45him.
05:46He was a great friend of Eric Rieper.
05:49It was really sad to hear about it, just tragic, very tragic.
05:54He loved food, made everybody love food.
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