Famous chef, food writer, and tv personality. He wrote a book about his life coming of age as a chef - the addiction, the dangers, the friendships, the challenges. It ended up a NY Times Best Seller and he went on to write other books and have many tv shows where he'd travel to other countries to bring his audiences a different perspective of the people that lived there. Food was always the common thread in his shows, but he had an innate talent to make the world seem smaller.
He disliked commercial chefs, vegetarianism, and how culinary artistry had been all but removed from food tv shows. He was an advocate for immigrants in the culinary industry and spoke out about sexual harassment in Hollywood as well as the food industry.
