Chef

I will not tell you to play it safe. I bought The French Laundry with borrowed belief; it took nineteen months of persistence to…

The greatest risk I ever took was believing a boy from Leeds with no qualifications belonged at the top of world gastronomy.

Safe? Bloody hell. Safe is the most expensive thing you will ever buy.

Momofuku was a bad idea. A ramen bar from a burned-out ex-golfer with no reputation, in a city that did not care.

Okay, real talk from Papa. Betting on yourself works exactly like sourdough: you do not dump the whole bag of flour in on day one…

BUDDY. Okay, listen. I had a heart attack at 29 and rebuilt my whole life from the studs, so I am not going to tell you to play…