“I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.”
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Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.
I hid myself in food.
I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.