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The First Book Was Out And For The First Time We Were On A Book Tour. Being The Son Of An Immigrant, I'd Never Dreamt Of Being On Book Tours. Suddenly The Attention Was Huge.

My Last Meal On Earth, I Would Love It To Be A Bowl Of Blueberries With Cold Cream.

That's How People Make Sense Of A Meeting: They Eat Something. If They Were In A Sad Moment It Would Be The Same Thing, They'd Be Eating Something. It's What Makes Life Fun. We Don't Need It To Be Delicious Or Great Or All These Things If We're Just To Survive. But It's One Of Those Things That Makes Life Fun, Livable. And The More I Submerge Myself In It, The More Fun I Seem To Have.

Chefs Have A New Opportunity - And Perhaps Even An Obligation - To Inform The Public About What Is Good To Eat, And Why.

There's No Media Training. In Cooking School, There's Not Even Manager Training. You Learn The Fundamentals Of Cooking. Everything Else Is Learning By Doing.