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"gail simmons" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"I love puppets. Also make me go out. I don't wanna go out either. Right again samantha. I don't know if it's been directly helpful. But i hope it's of comfort at least that you're certainly not alone. Yeah there's a lot of people questioning a lot of things. So samantha like you said like taking measure of the value of this person and if you are thinking about her on like a daily hourly basis. There's one side of things of like if you want to continue this friendship with firm boundaries. I think april's text is perfect. And i think that that would be the rational thing. But it samantha really is like how much you're thinking about this person and how much you are missing. This person. sounds like you're also wondering what was it just. Because i'm lonely because i don't have somebody to replace her with and that could be part of it. You know it really could be. And i think that's only something that you can kind of assess over the next few months. I just think you're growing and really coming into your own as a woman and learning what it is that you want and just like when we're dating we should figure out. What do i want my friends to love me for. What do i bring to the table as a friend. What do i want to be celebrated for as a friend that's important to know and then you'll be able to find the right friends samantha. Did we give you some food for thought. At least i think she just. Because i've had it not friendship with a few others had so much anxiety and i feel like that idea of just like taking a pause thinking about knowing that like you can move on from friendships. I think those kind of key points i. I've spent like spitting every night about how even interacting with people. And i think that point april. You made about like this. I think like the first time. I really felt like myself like really comfortable with myself..
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"I think it's maybe rethink like. Is this someone that i want to kind of do that. Work with that feels fair to me. I think we have to measure. Is it like an issue like a mosquito bite or is it like an ache like a little bit of a pit in your stomach so i think april solution is great. Because then you'll have an answer This happened in my life. And i didn't get a response when i did a year later. It was. let's just. Let's just not talk about it. Oh it was a family member. And i'm still in the dark in. It's hurt me so much because it was so stupid they can't tell you it was so illogical. Do you think. I'm sure. Well i mean i'm a coach right so when people are going through a divorce i don't take sides. I try to help to people individually. And i think what happened was it was like well. You weren't on my side but it's not that right it was i. I have to stay neutral. And when i didn't ever get to hear why this person left. My life was so painful to this day. if i talk about i'll get teary eyed. But then i thought after a few years of this person being absent and not ever calling me to say. Here's what i heard which is i could rectify it like that. I can honestly say that. That never happened right. Something got ruined in the pipeline. It wasn't me. I'm always very honest. Very loving i could fix it but guess what when people tell me to reach out which i have. It doesn't change the outcome. And now that i have space and time from it. I'm like you know what. I don't want that person in my life that would disappear without confronting me and having a conversation because one of my values is honest transparent communication. So it doesn't matter who did what it's come to me and say april. What's up. I just heard this. Did you really say that or what's going on. I would be able to defend myself. So it's not gonna change anything and that's why we have to let go of our attachment to outcomes and just be expressive and then go wait a minute. Do i want somebody who would do that to me. The end of the day is that really. What's right for me. that's how you have to look at life. And that's the beauty of the thirties. It is a whole new crop of people in your life. That are gonna start coming to you and it's really exciting. I mean my closest friends are people. I've met once. I was about thirty. Those are the people that i'm bonded with. I just want you to look forward to the kind of people that will communicate at your level..
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"gail simmons" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"The the goals that we wanna accomplish things we want to do and get done are sort of looming on top of us a little bit. Yeah so if you're shifting imagined that friendships would shift as well right. But i also don't think friendships have to be so just like dating by the way so i don't like people to search for love the dating apps because it puts you in hunt mode. We shouldn't be hunting for connection right now. You hopefully have a job. You love samantha. You have a guy that you are falling for. Could this just be a time of your life. Where the focus is your relationship your career. You don't worry about the friends. The friends will be there like having more faith and more trust and along the way there's going to come a woman through work or through the guy you're dating and all of a sudden you're going to be connected so are used to tell women. The length of time of a friendship doesn't necessarily give you the value of the friendship and love that. Yeah yes. I love that. Thanks april you're welcome. Ana i remember the woman i used to work for when i first started out matchmaking. She had these lifelong friends coming her wedding and i just started working at her agency and all of a sudden it was like. Oh my god. My bridesmaid got pregnant april. Can you fit into a size to dress. My like sausage into that dress and flew to hawaii and all the friends that she knew forever were disappearing going hiking kayaking all kinds of stuff. Where was april sewing so setting tables putting flowers together. I'm helping her. I'm going out bribes. Everybody had i remember thinking. I'd only known her. Short time. And i was a better friend to her than anybody. She had known for twenty years so the nice thing about as we as women as we know ourselves better so we cast our net differently we know how to cast those new friends into our lives when we know ourselves better and then therefore the friendships actually happen..
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"Help with anything. i'm just like stopped responding in. She reached out an april. Just saying like. I need time. I don't like the emotional capacity to talk to you which was really hard to hear especially here like via text message but i wanted to respect that boundary that she was setting and she was like you reached out today so i was like. I'll be here for you. Like reach out. Then i reached out and she never texted back and august. Two weeks ago actually found out she blocked me on like all social media which is field like insanely extreme. And i have no idea what happened and i a lot of time. Just like being really saddened. Frustrated dislike crying. And i think anaya end. I've been more concerned of have just not been holding space for her. Have i not been a good listener. I actually keep thinking back to that text. Message at just like should have just not listened to myself of like respect. His battering just called her. And i just like. I keep replaying those moments in my head. That's like definitely the most extreme example. Because that one. I definitely just have to like more move on. She doesn't wanna talk to me. But i think the only key difference in my life. And i don't know what's happened in her life since then. Something big could have happened. I don't know is that. I started seriously dating someone will. Here's what i bet. So she's going through all this shit she wants to talk to you about it and you are having this total high like so excited to share your new love with your dear friends and her takeaway is like oh. My god. i can't believe samantha just went on and on about her new guy. This happened in my life and she warped that into taking a kind of personally which is illogical and maybe she is going through a ton of stuff. I just wanted to frame that for you a little bit because it feels to illogical to take to personally if that makes sense feels like you kinda know that..
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"I am so thrilled to have her. Sam you're here with april and will you tell us what's going on. Yes i basically reached out to you. Guys really bonding friendship advice. I am thirty. I'm single professional on the east coast. And i've met most of my friends in like very certain phases of my life like a lot of people like i met them in college in grad school. I made like the core group of my friends. Now when i was like between the ages of twenty one twenty three just like when we all had like everything in common had similar entry level jobs single made the same amount of money very similar light situation and i think now obviously. Kobe disrupted a lot in life. But i think i have just been really struggling With how to kind of maintain of my friendships. Now that literally everyone we're all in very different phases. And i think just really struggling with when to when to let go because there's been so many life changes is the distance that you were describing. Those friends married like do they have kids as well. There has definitely been that distance with my friends who are married and have kids. And i've actually really good like boundary setting conversations with particularly with my friends with kids where i know. Were probably only gonna hang out once every months. It's not going to be like every week like it was even before cogan. So i feel like i've been able to learn how to hamper down on some of those. Those parts of friendship break. Think kobe decide at a.
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"By which all are measured in. I've eaten it in a couple of places here in charleston but like it is deeply personal. It's the kind of dish that like every family has their own nation of although if you ask. It sounds very simple. It's not very many ingredients but bj. Dan this makes it so beautifully. It's so flavorful and so delicious with the crispy kawhi bits of. Oh my god. Racing freshly picked crab in. What kind of spices are used while he uses one of herbs. There's some space but it's not spicy. As cuisine generally not necessarily and then i remember he made for dessert peach and blackberry cobbler which is the ultimate soured is our anywhere but here with local peaches and blackberries and made by him with this beautiful crumbly cobbler biscuit crust. It was just like completely. I was like enraptured. Tie the whole meal and it was a meal that i will never forget and it probably was maybe like i imagine one of the first or few times. At least you were able to gather with friends and like yes. It was just like six of us. Absolutely this magical night and not only that but it was like a perfect example of eating food from a culture. That is totally foreign to me. In many ways that i'm learning about and that i can see and understand so if we're clean now i can have empathy for and really. It was like a learning experience. Because i grew up so far away from anywhere near here and so it was like an education but also you identify you know pieces of the story and the ingredients and it you know it just is such an eye opening lens through which to understand someone else and i think that was like the beauty of what be james really able to do. An is able to do with food goats. That's a life goal for me event. Yeah it sounds amazing. Come on down gail. I just adore you. Thank you so very much. Thank you did. Oh thank you so much for having such a thoughtful conversation really appreciate getting to chat with you again. Yeah me too. Have a wonderful rest of your day. Thank you.
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"gail simmons" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"It doesn't serve anyone to be that way but like there's also genetics. I'm lucky that. I do have an and i love food and i eat and i'm relatively healthy physically more than anything is just about being healthy. I want to be around was long as possible for my kids. Hopefully my grandkids. So just taking care of yourself. But that also is a mental game more than a physical. I would love for you if you can to describe a perfect meal that you've had like can you take us away. Sure you know. It's hard to think of like the best meal ever. I can talk about a recent meal that really loved. That was really special right here in charleston south carolina. Oh i love charleston me too. It's such an interesting beautiful place. I don't know it very well. It's worth a visit for sure again. The food culture here is really interesting and really delicious. And like i can think about one meal that i had last year here. That was really really special to me. Was a meal by a man named bj. Dennis who is chef here in charleston and he is descended from the gulf gucci which for a ultimately slaves that were brought here but they revoke your for their understanding of rice culture and seafood because charleston has obviously their food. Culture is rice and seafood based from you know hundreds of years back and he has been an ambassador ichi food for as long as you've been a chef. Was it at a restaurant or it at no. It wasn't at a restaurant so last year because the pandemic he cooks privately and he has a lot of projects he works on. But i asked if he could come and cook a meal for my friends and i at our friends house and he brought everything over. We did it outside. And he brought some incredible food and it really was like one of the best meals i've ever had. This is all very traditional food right here. In trust in that really comes out of his culture is very personal to him oprah soup with shrimp and wreck fish. We talk about ochre second. Yes i have a lot of family in columbia south carolina. Not far lara's yeah. not far. Antibiotics had okra before. You know we don't eat it too much out here on the west coast. Because i don't think it's very transportable. Yeah it's very polarizing easy it. it's extra way. Yeah it feels. Like soup is actually the perfect. I know preparation for yet. Method for cooking. Yeah sorry go on. I'm totally loving this okra. Interesting because I mean it's a traditional prop from this part from here and a lot of people who have gone up with including me because there's not a lot of crank canada. It's hard to get us to because it has sort of a slimy texture. If you're not cooking it properly in that sometimes or if you are if you like it but if you're not familiar with it it can be unfamiliar but he makes this beautiful soup with shrimp Various officials eaten a lot right here and it's kind of called charleston gumbo in that it's cooked in similar way to gamble with rice and it is rich and cooked slowly and the okra really adds that texture and it's viscous it hasn't viscosity to a but it's not slimy at all. It's just flavorful. Rich beautiful he made ass hot. Corn bread cast iron skillet. Oh and he just drizzled cane syrup on it that was made locally by friends of his on farm not far away and just like dipping in cane. Syrup was like such a treat. You made squash stupid peppers and tomatoes and he made crab fried rice which is very particular to this corner of the world into gucci culture. I've had it from him once before. When top chef shot in charleston he made us crab fried rice and his is the standard..
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"In a lotta ways it was like look this. You need to figure it out. Go forth. Don't com actually tell you have the answer and sometimes that kind of felt like negative reinforcement but he gave me like such an incredible education. He also opened up the world. Food to me it was you know the world of restaurants and shops he would fly all over. The world researching for his articles are one month. He would be writing about traditional thai curries and he would go to thailand for a month and then come home and make me track down the best possible mortar and pestle to make tycoon at home or sometimes he would write about making neopolitan pizza in home oven and replicating the perfect pizza crust recipe. So i had to run around to every would oven in the city of new york and measure the temperature and try to replicate the recipe for the joe for days on end so it was like really might dream job but also he just gave me carte blanche to explore and fail and learn from my mistakes and get my hands dirty and then he also like introduced me to so many of my aisles in the food world because he would be like having casual dinner with martha stewart that night or alice waters or he was having a meeting with anna winter in needed. Meet like long. Take notes or having dinner with danielle blue and that was alternately. Like how i went to work for danielle's through that relationship you know many years later so he just like vade the world of food accessible to me in this new york way that i don't think i've ever been possible anywhere else and i'm grateful to him for that. I think like the way you described his diligence. I think that's a good word for it. Actually you talk a lot about geese and roosters like yeah. We cooked a lot of guests in research. And like caviar tastings yes so it was like very glamorous but also very unglamorous like we needed roosters because we did read an article about coppell them traditional french dish from the french countryside. That like you think of cockle van that you think of like julia. Trials patrizio traditional braised chicken dish. But what people probably don't now. Is that the reason. Cocco vans this of all. It's cocco van which is a cock which is a male chicken a rooster but the reason that it is braised for three days in red wine is because traditionally it was how to use an old rooster that had like dried up and was good at impregnating hens anymore. So what do you do with this old rooster and when you're on a farming you need to use every fig you have. You can't just throw rooster in garbage. You know you need to use it for food and so old roosters task. So how do you make them. Tender and edible. You braised them in red wine for three days. And that's cockle. That started so when. Jeffrey is gonna do an article welcome. He's not gonna take the easy way out. I had to figure out a way of getting old roosters delivered to the house every day and it was challenges. Like that that kind of like maybe just understand..
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"Feel like you were about to touch almost on a philosophical level about the food in japan. Do you have a thought on that. Well do in that. I think we know so little about it that it is such an interesting food culture because you know when we think of japanese food we take a few different things but really in japan. There are so many people who've dedicated their entire. Life's work to a single craft was in food culture so they're not just like a chef the cook everything. It's like one person who studies just jaka tori just temporale just the art of sushi and sashimi. For years upon years and become masters of this one thing which is sort of unknown to us in a lot of ways. Because i think our culture sort of sets us up to wanna do lots of things all the time and no one would ever be able to sit still for that long to kind of like learn. Suck narrows specific but such deep craftsmanship in a way and that doesn't just go for food and japan. I think it actually goes for so much of their art and culture from music to indigo dying to rice-growing onto sake making you know they have hundreds of years of tradition and building on the masters before you. It takes a lifetime in itself. And i'm kind of in all of that discipline for sure. May as bend shot a movie in japan and he speaks about this town that specialized in soba noodles right just and people think that rahman so a don. They're all the same. They are not the ritual right and the method for making them. And it's yeah it's an extraordinary thing. I'm envious of that experience of his. He would love to live in japan freer. My dream would be venice. Oh yeah all visit you there. The idea of getting to know that intimate city that feels kind of filled with mystery. I think it is. I mean literally the layers and layers that have been built upon head over hundreds of years..
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"Reclaiming six to seven. Pm as the happiest hour so you can do whatever it is that makes you happy and if that involves glass of bourbon remember maker smart crafts bourbon carefully and they asked the enjoy it that way. Make your smart kentucky straight bourbon. Whiskey forty-five percent alcohol by volume copyright. Twenty twenty one maker's mark distillery inc loretto kentucky. Would you mind telling us how you met your husband. Oh sure it's not the most interesting story world. Yeah there's a romance there. My husband jeremy and i've been married. It'll be thirteen years. I think in august but will be together for twenty one years. We met in new york city. When i was at culinary school and he was doing a graduate degree in music. Entertainment business at nyu over both canadian. Which is an irony that my mother can't believe i like moved to your city and found another canadian. Didn't do anything for the green card situation. But that's okay we love him anyway. He's montreal heinsohn toronto but we met through a few mutual friends that he went to college and summer camp with throwing up and i went to high school with and we all ended up in new york together. We had this little like expert navien policy of people that we all moved to new york gravitated to and we were both in this kind of crew of friends. We never knew each other but one of my really good friends from high school and college was his best friend from summer camps since he was ten years old a guy named brandon creed and brandon introduced us. It wasn't like a setup in any way granted and a bunch of our other friends. My roommate at the time jamie at other than south these are friends that we were all kind of hanging out with and i was friends with jeremy for a year and it was like a year into our friendship where i don't know like i woke up one day something clicked and i looked at him differently and romance bloomed. I guess and living together ever since that was two thousand. We've been through it through it all together. I don't think it was a coincidence that you two were canadian. Though you know what. I mean i think there's something about like finding a home in a large city you know. There was a familiarity and comfort any other a year into our relationship. Nine eleven happened just blocks from my house than we kind of got through it together and since then we've faced so many things and now we have two children ever and so far so good gail..
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"Avocados country in so they were making money but also pooling all their horses for example. All the children would live together so they didn't necessarily live in individual family homes. All the children lived together were raised together and some of the adult jobs to care for the children while other people other adult journal. Too far other adult jobs were to work in the kitchen. You know and as soon as you were old enough to stand you contributed you. Were working as well as going to school on the kibbutz and then when you turned eighteen man or woman went to do mandatory service in the army which is still do in israel and then you come back. It isn't imperfect system and these days. Many kibbutz have not survived. But for the first many years of the countries existence it became a really extraordinary and in many ways successful way to build the country economically and physically it is an incredibly agriculturally rich country in large part because these key butts so tobacco my story i was eighteen and i decided to go work on one for some with my boyfriend. And you kind of get signed. You can volunteer in exchange for room and board you get three meals a day and a roof over your head. You can volunteer to work on one of these farms on incubus and you you're assigned wants you don't necessarily know where you're going to go the country or the job. You're gonna have that they use your scales. Whatever you have you know. When i was at the house i remember there was a traveller who was also volunteering in from south america but he was a veterinarian. Who had taken off to do this. And so they were obviously using his sculptures veterinarian with the animal husbandry at this particularly kibbutz. 'cause every was two different things and we had cows and chickens and so he was helping with the veterinary clinic there but i was eighteen. I did not have that many specific skills. And so i didn't know how i was going to sort of work and we arrived on the kibbutz and you are assigned at. I work in the chicken farm. It was an egg farm. This sold all their eggs. They had thousands of chickens and they sold eggs to all of the country so there was many people needed to pick eggs every single day many times a day and there was a big system by which obviously the eggs were pasteurized and loaded and cleaned and shipped and obviously put into the system so to speak and so i was assigned chicken firm with my boyfriend and we worked there together for many many weeks. Ultimately the relationship fell apart as young love often downs and i decided that it was not healthy for me emotionally to be working in the chicken farm with him anymore. Day in day out when we were you really. It was so sad. I was like frankness off. Sleep at night so i asked to be moved and they moved me for breach sent to the avocado and ichi fields to work on the irrigation systems the avocado trees which were beautiful and interestingly it was lee cheese even though i was working on the avocado fields. Ligi trees right beside us. So in tommy got entire holiday we would just pick the leech off the trees. Eat them as snack which was pretty and after that they moved me to the kitchen was seven hundred people working on the books that i lived on and they needed three meals. A day represents dinner. The entitlements eats in central dining hall. I mean it's almost like camp. And so i worked in that kitchen. I as a dishwasher..
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"I love. My job is in every bite equipment out is different and i guess talk about it with people who love it too right so most days. It's pretty great. I really admire how you set a goal for yourself and in your book you write about how you through a shit ton of hard work and hustling. Who made that happen. There's an anecdote you write about. I think your mom had you write a list. Yes that's right. Will you tell our listeners about that. Yeah sure and it's funny. 'cause you say i set a goal. It's interesting on when. I set that goal twenty years ago when i graduated college. Twenty plus years ago didn't articulate it that way like i didn't know exactly what the long game was gonna be right. I didn't know and thank goodness. Didn't know you know you gotta be a little naive or else you're never going to silly do it. You never can actually t-e-k-n-i risk if you actually know what that will involve. But i had this like loose plan. This sort of nebulous idea that i wanted to work in food media and like twenty five years ago food media met something totally different than it is today. But that was my plan my loose plan. But i also always very consciously never made like five year goals you know. It's like making a birth plan. Which i know you understand. People be like what's your birth planning now. I know having had two children that is bullshit. Yeah call bullshit on the birth line because no matter how you want it to go. It's not our votes and you just wanna come out. The other side in one piece with a healthy child. And i feel the same way about my career. I had no idea. And i'm glad that i didn't put too much stock in it. Going one way or the other. Because then i would have never gone to our ham all that sad when i was twenty two and graduated college and i came home from college and i had this loose idea of being in the food and i had no idea what it was and my mom was actually kinda worried about me because she thought i was pretty directionless and i was living in my parents basement in toronto and she sent a family friend to give me like a pep talk..
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"You know whether it's by plane and train or automobile and then through travel the cultural understanding of the world the different cultures of the world and their contributions and that good food or what is considered. Good food isn't just from a white western european perspective anymore and that not only can food be deeply personal but food on every continent has hundreds of years of history and tells the story of the people who have made it throughout that country's history also super regional. We now understand. And then if you think back to the seventies sore sixties even when our parents were eating chinese food it was just one kind of americanized chinese food right. Now we understand and we're still learning obviously about this massive country that is micro regional and the incredible. You know thousands of years far older than america this country of modern america. What we consider sort of like the way we eat and you know the contributions they made the food world enactments for hundreds of countries from africa to asia south america to australia. You know there is so much to discover it so many different perspectives. And i think all of that as we grow in his are degeneration after has grown understand that more thoroughly. It kind of opens the doors to a broader lens of filled in. It's allowed everyone to have a voice to work in ways. They weren't able to and have access to understanding food and ways around able to which is just like made the way beat so different and much more casual and much more based on personal likes and dislikes not just let one person one critic says is good. And i don't know. I think that's all been a piece of the proverbial is so to speak and top chef. Certainly is up to it. Was the first restaurant show that really showed the true life of chefs profession shafts in america and it was a risk where we started to do it but what we realized very quickly is that we heard of through. Open the kitchen door to civilians..
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"gail simmons" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"Our decision can read you a quote that i needed more explanation with though sure. Wow i love this year. I have fleas okay. You right as you're working at la- cirque as a cuza cook. Your book is fascinating. Oh thank you. And i really admire your hard work and your diligence These are qualities. I don't always have well until you look back right until you look back at your body of work and oh you know what i've accomplished if you think yeah and you ask theon have now. I knit hats puzzle gail. that's good. I mean also skills that i don't have a well. You don't need them. They're not very useful so gail you right. I love the logic that i found in the details. I learned what kinds of shoes to wear loose clothes. Toes and easily removable. In case anything hot or sharp falls on your foot and you have to kick the shoe off quickly. Gail what is falling on your foot. I mean oh a kitchen. Isn't teachers place. I mean really. That's why chefs were clouds right. You ever noticed that shifts. A lot of chefs were clouds. Would i'm still stuck on the needing to kick it off like a knife through the to- well then maybe it's too late but things fly off counters. Things fall hands. You know sometimes knives food platters things fall during service. You are working fast in a professional kitchen and you are working with extensive urgency and austin. If you're not careful and mindful there is frantic chaos. It should be controlled chaos. But it's not always that way and there's many times in a kitchen where you just wanna be prepared and the reason that a lot of chefs traditionally wear. Clogs is like that. They're good on your back. They're good for foot support and back support but also you can kick them off very quickly. Should something thought And you just don't know things fall in a kitchen and a sure your hands just get beat to shit. They get shit. I mean i'm ten years a more. I'm twelve fifteen years out of the kitchen these days. But i still have few scars. Some chefs wear them like a badge. Honor i bet. But i imagine that working in a kitchen teaches you like choreography in crowded places. You know it's funny. I had a boss many years ago. I worked for a chef named danielle buluan a very famous frenchman who has some of the best restaurants the world to destroy dairyman but When i worked for him the general manager of his like flagship restaurant used to have a meeting. I talk with this in the book. We had a meeting every night. Right before service wasn't cooking at this point i was running special events and projects that was helping. Daniel write books in open restaurants and do marketing and stuff. But i would always go to that service meeting right before dinner every night and the general manager used to always say i use this old time at the end of our meeting every night. He would say people. This is a ballet rodeo. And i always think about that for the dance of a kitchen for the dance of a restaurant and it's not just the back of the house. There's a choreography that's happening. With the servers and the bus boys..
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"gail simmons" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"Hey everyone today's guest is food writer. Cookbook author and top chef. Judge gail simmons gale. And i talk about a lot more than food but i do have to add a warning that you'll be hungry. After this episode. I loved hearing about gaels unpredictable career path. From living in your mom's basement to give us a new appreciation of food culture on one of my favorite shows. And if you've ever wondered how the top chef winners are chosen. You will soon find out that. It's not an easy decision. After my conversation with gail april and i talk with a listener. Who was growing apart from her friends and wonders. If there's anything she can do to reconnect with them if you have a question would like some unqualified and qualified advice. Please look for the link at unqualified dot com. Now here's gayle ladies and gentlemen you're listening to qualify on affairs sir. I'm so happy to see.
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"My god great to see you. All end spoiler alert. We are talking about the season finale. Tonight if you have not watched go back and do that. I all right and get excited later in the show. We are announcing this season's fan favourite. I want to get into some questions about tonight's episode. I have to ask about tom. Do you think she would have had a higher chance. If she had been able to play their food. I mean it seems like an obvious question. But i mean how was her food that you tasted. Was she a contender. That's what i want to. She definitely a contender. She had been doing this for the better part of the season. Leaving things often You know she. She had a hard time with the clock in and and absolutely food with her food was fantastic all season long but She certainly couldn't win. Leaving stuff off a plate padma as you saw gabe through the competition. Did you eyeball him at the beginning. As a potential winner. I saw immediately that he had incredible sauce. Work and to me. That is always one of the most integral parts of cooking and it was clear that he was going to do well whether he wins or not as anyone's gas right. Because there's so many things again in your way. But yes i mean. He showed extraordinary skill from the from the gecko and congratulations. Gabe and gail was it as you went into. Tonight's meal did you in your mind. Was he the front runner in your mind or do you not approach it that way. You can't because you just never know what kind of data are going to have a kind of menu. They're going to give us. And truthfully all three of them just the day before had shown us incredible full. You know the the last challenge our james beard crab challenge so there was just no. There's just no way to know you wake up. And every day is a new day so it was probably going to be showed up or gave truthfully but don has won many times before and food beautiful so it was anyone's game. Tom did the final three contestants. Make the right choices in your mind with their sous chefs or and did you feel the outcome could have been different if they had picked differently. No i don't think would have been different. You know the shoes for their take direction from from the chef and so no i don't i don't think it would have been different pod. What was your reaction it. Add getting so emotional about showed us dish tonight. Very sweet very sweet. Always make me cry because food is emotional. That's why they're putting their heart on the plate. Just serve working so hard and they're tired there's fire there's nine but i you know i can totally relate to what ed was saying that i can't because for most of us immigration kids. We've had that experience where we bring something funky to school in our so embarrassing. It's usually something we loved eating with. Our families mortifying so to come south. Learn your on that happening in your lap padma. I'm sorry davina is. I was actually expecting a baby for. I didn't know what was okay. Very good rescue. We got her. That's sure it's my dog. It's supposed to be christian dog. My daughter's job right mind story. Yeah and now you're dressing. Your dogging hoodies very good and no matter how you slice and dice it. This season's final six. Where a cut a bob. In fact some of them prove they could cook with one hand while bleeding from a cut in the other. So i want to dish it out. I have questions. I want you all the pick. Your answers from the bobbing heads of the final. Three and their cavalry. Gabe don showed up maria byron. And jamie so. Who's food was the first to blow you away. Padma came. what about you tom..
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"Birdie a welcome to the crappy awards twenty twenty one inc warranty <hes>. Virtual crappy this is where the crappies began. Wow y- tonight just like the old days you guys. Twenty twenty one has been quite a year. I'd like to congratulate everybody. I mean twenty twenty with quite a year. Twenty twenty one. You know. it's had some shit to already. Twenty twenty was quite a year. So congratulations to everybody for making it through so much has happened in one year. I just think to what it was like before. The whole corona virus thing. I mean things were so great. I was just like sitting alone in my house eating too much. Playing mario talking to no one watching housewives way. Yeah still pretty much. Do that but seriously <hes>. This year a virus spread across america causing illness. Sadness and loss but enough about kim zolciak. Okay i know. Just think the biggest plague facing this country before this. Jack's taylor guys you know. I spent a good amount of twenty twenty just playing animal crossing. Which as you it's a game about a bunch of animals stuck on an island up. Some of you may not original named the real house. Believe sorry they laugh to sued new york city already. The punchline about to land and the country has gone through a lot you know. I mean besides the corona virus. We've had political upheaval. I mean america's now even more trillions of dollars in debt. I mean no one in government watches housewives. And if they did they'd get fifty girlfriends and force them all to give america hundred bucks on your birthday. I mean we'd still be in debt but lady liberty would have a gucci bag to show for it. You know the on a serious note. The nation was very shocked a few weeks ago when an angry mob raided the capital. And all you gave them was a pizza. Jennifer eight in and we finally got a new president this week and the nation breathes a sigh of relief. Now look i know all of you have different political opinions and that's fine. My personal opinion is thank god that the orange thing left on my. Tv's ram be read mid no but you know the thing is i mean current events were one thing but so much actually happened in the world but it seemed like so much more happened on bravo. Yeah i mean house was getting fired. So many housewives got fired a record amount. I mean it was a slaughterhouse and it was not the organic kind either. there was a lot of botulism in that meet. Okay housewives caster transforming faster than derek kinsley space. Have you seen that thing. It looks like an elbow anyo on below deck mid hannah. Ferrier was fired for smuggling valium onto the boat and then on vanderpump rules jackson brittany were fired for smuggling food via onto bravo and then we have of course. Our trustee good old friend alcoholism. Okay got real outside of new york trying to convince that she's alcoholic then you've got the real housewives of orange county trying to convince bronwyn that she's not an alcoholic and you got the rest of us sitting over here like what. What are you idiots fighting over k. Do you try and tell the mailman. He's a mailman. You're alcoholics okay. Do your jobs less talking more. Drank he here here here here if we had if we had like a good old fashioned like golden girls mom's earthy monologue clap would be right there and when i can figure this thing out i will move to that button so another thing that happened. So the massive fight between candice amani that sent to'mix ratings through the roof which just goes to show that audiences crave conflict so as a result bravo will now be rebranding top chef as the gail simmons thunderdome of ham my head teddy mellon campus fired in public. Outrage breakout over her diet. I mean people were really furious when they found out that customers were getting thin with starvation. Lots of exercise in a crazy woman bullying them day and night. Berating them for their food choices. They called it all in with teddy. I called it my child head
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"Birdie a welcome to the crappy awards twenty twenty one inc warranty Virtual crappy this is where the crappies began. Wow y- tonight just like the old days you guys. Twenty twenty one has been quite a year. I'd like to congratulate everybody. I mean twenty twenty with quite a year. Twenty twenty one. You know. it's had some shit to already. Twenty twenty was quite a year. So congratulations to everybody for making it through so much has happened in one year. I just think to what it was like before. The whole corona virus thing. I mean things were so great. I was just like sitting alone in my house eating too much. Playing mario talking to no one watching housewives way. Yeah still pretty much. Do that but seriously This year a virus spread across america causing illness. Sadness and loss but enough about kim zolciak. Okay i know. Just think the biggest plague facing this country before this. Jack's taylor guys you know. I spent a good amount of twenty twenty just playing animal crossing. Which as you it's a game about a bunch of animals stuck on an island up. Some of you may not original named the real house. Believe sorry they laugh to sued new york city already. The punchline about to land and the country has gone through a lot you know. I mean besides the corona virus. We've had political upheaval. I mean america's now even more trillions of dollars in debt. I mean no one in government watches housewives. And if they did they'd get fifty girlfriends and force them all to give america hundred bucks on your birthday. I mean we'd still be in debt but lady liberty would have a gucci bag to show for it. You know the on a serious note. The nation was very shocked a few weeks ago when an angry mob raided the capital. And all you gave them was a pizza. Jennifer eight in and we finally got a new president this week and the nation breathes a sigh of relief. Now look i know all of you have different political opinions and that's fine. My personal opinion is thank god that the orange thing left on my. Tv's ram be read mid no but you know the thing is i mean current events were one thing but so much actually happened in the world but it seemed like so much more happened on bravo. Yeah i mean house was getting fired. So many housewives got fired a record amount. I mean it was a slaughterhouse and it was not the organic kind either. there was a lot of botulism in that meet. Okay housewives caster transforming faster than derek kinsley space. Have you seen that thing. It looks like an elbow anyo on below deck mid hannah. Ferrier was fired for smuggling valium onto the boat and then on vanderpump rules jackson brittany were fired for smuggling food via onto bravo and then we have of course. Our trustee good old friend alcoholism. Okay got real outside of new york trying to convince that she's alcoholic then you've got the real housewives of orange county trying to convince bronwyn that she's not an alcoholic and you got the rest of us sitting over here like what. What are you idiots fighting over k. Do you try and tell the mailman. He's a mailman. You're alcoholics okay. Do your jobs less talking more. Drank he here here here here if we had if we had like a good old fashioned like golden girls mom's earthy monologue clap would be right there and when i can figure this thing out i will move to that button so another thing that happened. So the massive fight between candice amani that sent to'mix ratings through the roof which just goes to show that audiences crave conflict so as a result bravo will now be rebranding top chef as the gail simmons thunderdome of ham my head teddy mellon campus fired in public. Outrage breakout over her diet. I mean people were really furious when they found out that customers were getting thin with starvation. Lots of exercise in a crazy woman bullying them day and night. Berating them for their food choices. They called it all in with teddy. I called it my child head