As some of you may know….

I spend thirty some years doing hard time in the restaurant business….

Don’t get me wrong, for a long time it’s all I ever wanted to do was be a chef, I love to cook….

Much like wedding consulting – it’s not nearly as glamorous as people think it is…

I was long, to hours in whatever hotel or club I was working at, and my social like evolved around work…

FOOD was my life.

And it showed…at one point in about 1992 I was up to 265 pounds… and something had to give…

One of the things I learned is that instead of enjoying food it became a substitute for all the stuff I missed out on…

I wasn’t eating because I was around food…I ate because I had no social life, no family life, and when I finished work at 2 AM there was nothing to do but eat…

As I developed other interests, and relationships I was able to change my eating habits…. and now that I’ve been out of the business for over 6 years…

I really love food again…. I enjoy cooking good meals at home, entertaining friends, family holiday dinners… all the reasons I got into the business in the first place…