I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldnt believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking. – Curtis Stone
These days I travel so much its hard to get into a routine. When Im on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When Im home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date. – Curtis Stone
Youve got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if youre in a rush in a morning and you feel like you dont have time to make breakfast, you skip it. – Curtis Stone
For Around the World in 80 Plates we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco… It was amazing. – Curtis Stone
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. – Peter Agre