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ALFRED PORTALE ON THE FIRST MEAL HE EVER COOKED;BUT NEVER GOT AROUND TO EATING:
(Chef/Owner New York's Gotham Bar and Grill)

"The truth is my motivation for being a chef was not just to pick up women and get sex but it just worked out that way."

JAMIE WALKER ON WHY HE BECAME A BARTENDER AND THE THEATER OF BARTENDING:
(Global Ambassador to Bombay Sapphire Gin)

"I needed to find a job in between being a resting actor, as it were. And I walked into this bar and started learning barbacking – it sounds really corny, but I fell in love with the whole theater of working at a bar."

MARIA FRUMKIN ON HER GUILTY PLEASURES:
(Chef and owner of Miami's Duo and French Bakery Café)

"Sometimes at night, like at 2 a.m., I have cravings for something sweet. And I can eat a whole pie because I'm kinda sleepy…and I don't think that much about calories, nothing!"

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