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"There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines."
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"You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it."

"Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone."

"Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run."

"Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position."

"It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out."

"In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard."

"There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines."

"At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare."

"As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business."
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