A nice mention about my uncle JP in this interview with Marcus Samuelson. The point made in this part of the interview is precisely why I dont patronize conglomerates like Crave restaurants or aspiring chain restaurants like the Red Cow. Restaurants should be driven by chefs not by fat-pockets who arent part of the community. The other thing that I loved about being here was the community of chefs and servers. When I came in there was a great local chef like JP Samuelson who had worked a lot in New York over at Bouley. When I look at today I see the food scene has changed tremendously. Were just on the verge of Gavin [Kaysen] opening his restaurant. Hes from here and did his years in New York and now hes going to open his restaurant. And that will be the next restaurant here that will create a whole family tree of great cooks and five, ten years from now youre going to see cooks from Gavins restaurant open their own small, local restaurants and thats really what a big time chef and restaurant can do. It creates that second generation of community, small local restaurants as well. So, we had a part in that, we were part of that, and I feel always blessed to come back to the Twin Cities because people have always been extremely nice and pleasant to me.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:34:52 +0000
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