An Offhand Remark that Summarizes the Confusion of Many New York City Chefs and Restaurateurs
Was talking to a friend who is planning a new restaurant somewhere in New York City.
“How many stars are you going for?” I asked.
“Well, if Hill Country got two,” he said. “Guess I’m going for eight.”
- Andrew
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ANDREW FRIEDMAN has collaborated on more than 20 cookbooks and other projects with some of America’s finest and most well-known chefs including Alfred Portale, Laurent Tourondel, Michelle Bernstein, David Waltuck, and former White House Chef Walter Scheib. He co-edited the popular anthology Don’t Try This at Home and is a two-time winner of the IACP Award for Best Chef or Restaurant Cookbook. Andrew is an editor at large for TENNIS Magazine and the coauthor of American tennis star James Blake’s New York Times bestselling memoir Breaking Back. In 2009, he published his first nonfiction book, Knives at Dawn: America’s Quest for Culinary Glory at the Bocuse d’Or, the World’s Most Prestigious Cooking Competition. He is currently working on projects with chefs Michael White and Paul Liebrandt.
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