Tasting Menu: A Reading

by | Feb 28, 2013 | Article, Books, chefs, Rant, Video

This 12-minute reading is from The Soul of a Chef, on my first experience with a tasting menu. Though I had special consideration at the meal—I was not a paying customer—it is an honest and emotional description of what remains the most important restaurant meal of my...

Are Tasting Menus the Way Toward “Art”?

by | Feb 26, 2013 | Article, Rant

  “I always say this to the young chefs and mean it: The customer is excited, he says you are an artist, but we are not, just craftspeople with a little talent. If the chef is an artist, he doesn’t succeed. Why? Because he is inspired today but not tomorrow. We...