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You Gotta Have Good Olive Oil. You Should Have A Cooking Olive Oil And You Should Have A Finishing Olive Oil, Like An Extra-virgin Olive Oil.

Whether It's Books Or Tv, Or Whatever The Case May Be, The Backbone Of What I Do Is My Restaurants.

Home Base Is The Support System Where We Have A Culinary Team, My Own Writers Because Of The Shows And The Books And Stuff, We Have A Culinary Team Of About Six People. Marketing, Public Relations, Accounting And All That Sort Of Stuff.

We're Probably Close To Reaching 2,000 Shows, Which Is More Than Julia Child And Jacques Pepin Together.

When I First Decided To Open A Restaurant, I Was Turned Down By Several Banks. It Was The Late 80's And Many Restaurants Were Failing. I Refused To Give Up Because I Knew I Had A Good Concept.