As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. Theres always going to be chaos in the restaurant business. – Rocco DiSpirito
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste. – Rocco DiSpirito
Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Dont worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position. – Rocco DiSpirito
You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it. – Rocco DiSpirito
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War. – Edmund White