I Can Teach A Chimp How To

The Very Common Error Of Young Or Unconfident Cooks Is To Keep Putting More Of Their Own Personal Ideology Into A Plate Until There's So Much Noise That You Really Can't Even Hear A Tune. You Can Say More In An Empty Space Than You Can In A Crowded One.

If You Want Your Kids To Listen To You, Don't Yell At Them. Whisper. Make Them Lean In. My Kids Taught Me That. And I Do It With Adults Now.

I've Been Lucky Enough In 20 Years In The Media To Have A Nice Soap Box That Put Me In A Position To Describe To An American Viewership That Tuscany Is Different From Umbria, And It's Different From Emilia-romagna And, Not That That Was News, But It Was Never Presented To Them In A Way That Was, "hey, Look. This Is A Different Plate From That Different Place." And Although We All Think Of "spaghetti, Lasagna, Ciao," As What Italy Is All About, There's All Of This Great Stuff... I Was Merely An Interpreter. I Wasn't The Developer Of The Content.

I Can Teach A Chimp How To Make Linguini And Clams. I Can't Teach A Chimp To Dream About It And Think About How Great It Is.

Although The Skills Aren't Hard To Learn, Finding The Happiness And Finding The Satisfaction And Finding Fulfillment In Continuously Serving Somebody Else Something Good To Eat, Is What Makes A Really Good Restaurant.