It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.
I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.
Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.
The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.
There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.
The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.
I'm a chef, I own restaurants, and there's a behavior in the kitchen you have to have.
Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.
Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.
When you look at a kitchen, you tend to see that the people who are doing really well are those who have worked with the same chef or stayed in one restaurant for a significant amount of time.