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I Don't Think Fine Dining Is Dying, But I Think Those Rare Occasions When You Really Want The Fanciness Are Diminishing... I Think A Lot Of People Are Going To Find Simpler, More Casual Ways To Enjoy An Experience.

You Sit Down At Katz's And You Eat The Big Bowl Of Pickles And You're Eating The Pastrami Sandwich, And Halfway Through You Say To Yourself, I Should Really Wrap This Up And Save It For Tomorrow. But The Sandwich Is Calling You: Remember The Taste You Just Had. So Fatty. It's What You Want. It's What You Are! I've Never Gotten Home From Katz's With A Doggie Bag In My Hand. A Pastrami Sandwich At Katz's Is What's Bad And Good About Food. It's The Sacred And The Profane.

Day-old Bread? Sadly, In America A Lot Of Day-old Bread Just Becomes Nasty. Italian Day-old Bread, Not Having Any Preservatives In It, Just Becomes Harder And It Doesn't Taste Old. What I Would Warn People About Is Getting Bread That's Loaded With Other Things In It, Because It Starts To Taste Old.

When You Add Just A Little Bit [of Tabasco] At The End, What You Taste Is The Spectrum Between The Cooked Chile Flavor And The Kind Of Nearly Raw, Just Kind Of Fermented Chile Flavor At The End.

Chefs Don't Actually Say 'that's A Spicy Meat-a-ball,' Except To Indicate That There's A Bomb Threat In The Restaurant Without Alarming The Customers. Terrorism Is The Spiciest Meatball There Is.