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Oh my God, I don't eat fast food. Have you ever had fast food from a fast food restaurant? In and out. In and out? Oh, I mean, I turn a blind eye to that. That's nice. Yeah, it was in Santa Barbara. Okay. And it was invited by Julia Child. Welcome to Tosh Show.
Now, you may notice that I'm not wearing my wedding ring today. It's right here about...
Six months ago, I was surfing in Florida, a little beach break, shore break. Water was probably six inches deep. Jammed my finger. It swelled up. Didn't want to cut the ring off, so I let it stay on there. And then just yesterday, I finally was able to get it over this swollen, gross knuckle.
Six months later, oh, it was, but so now I have to walk around with my ring and set it down near me so that no one tries to have sex with me. I got to do it. My wife's like, you better put it near you so that it blocks all the vagina from engulfing your penis. Anyway, can you tell? Does that look bad? It hurt. Oh, stupid. It still hurts.
Whatever. I'll get through it. I've been sick too. Eddie, how are you feeling? I'm feeling pretty good. You were sick for a while there, huh? COVID over the break, yeah. Oh, man. That's a shame. Well, at least you're not on a ventilator. All right. I got sick, and I'm still talking about it. I had a cold three weeks ago. I'm not whining either. I'm creating content.
How did I get a cold? Oh, I'll tell you how I got a cold. My mother-in-law, who's famously never sick, happened to be living with us for a month. And that entire month, she was open mouth coughing all over the Monopoly deal cards every night. You know, the worst part for me when I get sick, I got the flu. The worst part about it is
Not the pain of the zygmunt, but just being mocked by my wife because I have cold sweats and a fever of 100.1 degrees. That was my fever. Oh, I was on fire.
I kept saying, I was like, call an ambulance. She goes, it's only 100. I go, 100.1? And then she's like, oh, I'm sure. She's constantly does it. I'm sure it's so much worse than the flu we had three days ago.
Oh, it's so annoying. It's they call it a man cold because, because men, we whine so much. I'm a little needy when I'm not feeling well, I get it. And women just have a higher tolerance for pain. Sure. Unless we're talking about emotional pain, then they're fragile as fuck.
And please, here's what I'll find. Man colds are a thing. You know, we're all complete pussies and we deserve you to mock us. Fine. But women, how about this? You can't say everything is, oh, I've got food poisoning. I think I've got food poisoning.
Every time we order Chinese food, you've got food poisoning. That's racist, first of all. Second of all, you don't have food poisoning. You have good old-fashioned diarrhea. We've all got it. We all get it. Just say it. Some girls just can't say they have diarrhea. What's going on in there? I'm having diarrhea. Eddie, you got any videos for me this week? Oh, yeah, I got a video.
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Huh? That's what we do there. Let's get to today's guest. You will notice the set's going to look a little different. It was, we had a different table and we had, we didn't have lights. The backdrop was a bit different. Okay. We shot all these interviews out of order. And this was one of the very first interviews before we got our shit together. Today's guest is a world renowned chef who happened to create the greatest chocolate chip cookie ever.
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My guest today is a very accomplished French chef who started his career in Paris, then worked in numerous Michelin-starred restaurants around the world, now hangs his apron in Los Angeles, which is why I'm talking to him today. Bonjour, Remy. I'll be your host, Daniel. Can I start you off with some bread or our signature cocktail?
Yeah, I'm good right now. What are you? Are you a one-kisser, two-kisser, or do you go three or four? Well, it depends where you're from. I understand. What are you? Three? So it's a three. But, you know, I mean, in my family, the part of France I am, it can go all the way to four. But it's too much. It's too much. It's too much. Four kisses is so long. Yeah.
Exactly. Especially if you don't like it, you're a family member. You know, you're like, oh, come on, get away from me. You can't keep kissing me, uncle. Do you want to hear my French accent? I don't know if this is offensive or not. This is my French accent. Go ahead. That's all I've got. Okay, good. Do you believe in ghosts? You know, it's debatable. No, no, it's not. Well, if I'm at my family house, I do believe in ghosts. Okay.
Anyone else? Yeah, it's not. No, you don't believe in ghosts is the answer. Yeah. All right, good. Thank goodness. Ratatouille, how many times have you seen that movie? Oh, my God. How many times? I think twice. Did you enjoy it or no? Yeah, I do. But, I mean, I'm named after a rat. Well, yes, but such a dignified rat. And rats, I think, overall are considered smart creatures. Right, but in a kitchen. I mean, that's the whole point. Yeah. All right, Remy.
Where are you originally from? From France, born and raised. I mean, I've been a little over, so it was like either in the north of Paris or in the southwest. Do you go back to France every year? I used to. Are you allowed to go back? Of course I am. Okay, all right. Just making sure. Well, I guess for a while I was not, but... I'm kidding. What got you into cooking in the first place? You know, I started working in restaurants like in the summer.
Just doing things. And I felt like, you know, doing dishwashing and stuff like this while I was still in school. I was kind of a, I would say, like a nerd, antisocial kind of person. Okay. And bringing me into that environment where everybody was working together and had to depend on each other, I was kind of like, oh, I kind of like that, you know. And see what they were doing, too. And the creativity part of it.
was like, I really got hooked on that. How do you handle that stress just constantly? At the beginning, it was a little traumatic. I'm like, oh my God, you know, I used to go home and not being able to sleep and
wondering, am I doing the right thing? I mean, is this crazy? And then eventually it's kind of like you melt into it and you focus on really what's important and you leave a lot of the background noise and background stress not affect you. You wear the chef hat in the kitchen? You know, I'm 6'3", so if I put a hat on,
I'm going to bang that thing all over and it's going to fall in everything. And I used to like make chefs upset with me because I used to cut it up and I would look like a fast food guy or the ice cream guy. And they would laugh at me. I'm like, okay, so take it off. A 6'3", I'm 6'4". Yeah. What's the shortest person, shortest man that you can respect? What's that height? Ha ha ha.
Well, you know, I mean, if they beat my elbow, I'd be like, okay, get away from me.
You cooked in Germany? I was born in Germany. Now, I don't think of German food. Where were you born in Germany? Bopard? Bopard. It's small. Frankfurt? Near Frankfurt? Well, I worked near Frankfurt. But the food in Germany? So, it was a French restaurant. Okay, thank goodness. So, it was a small, like one Michelin star restaurant. One thing I really enjoyed in Germany was, you know, the house.
how methodical and organized everything is. Oh, yeah. I think they've taken that to another level. Oh, yeah. Got him into trouble a handful of times. Well, so me too. But there was a fun part, though. You know, the food was great. I mean, it was like my bases were covered.
But what I learned was their organization, their way of thinking. They were like always re-questioning themselves about doing things more efficiently and better. How long have you been in the United States? Since 84. You went to New York first? Yeah. How was your time in New York? Great. Oh, my God. I mean— In the 80s, New York, fancy restaurants. How much cocaine did you do? None. None.
How much cocaine did you see? A lot. Did you? Oh, my God. I mean, yeah. When people ask me about the story about the rest of the world or even New York in the 80s, oh, it's not a joke. It was beyond belief. Even for me, I was like, whoa. Did you drink? Yeah, drinking I did.
I mean, like most, a lot of chefs, they've got a bad reputation of a little too much. I never got to the point where it was a problem. But yeah, the drinking, you know, after shift, you know, binging until four or five in the morning or until the sun comes up and the restaurants or the bar you are are like,
lifting again the iron curtain because they closed it at like 3 o'clock in the morning. And then you're like, oh, crap, it's daylight. Yeah. It's a sad feeling when you see that sun come up. Oh, my God, yes, it is. What do you think of these people that don't care about eating at all? I don't understand that.
And, you know, I have a really hard way of describing. I mean, they have a sad life. Agreed. They go through life with body function. And it's really, I eat, I drink, I shit. And they have absolutely no pleasure doing any of those. And it's kind of sad. Someone that says they don't have a sweet tooth, I just immediately get angered. Like, oh, you don't enjoy eating something that tastes delicious? No.
I mean, yeah. I mean, the thing, you know, sweet, fat, you know, all those salty. I mean, this is what triggers all your emotion, you know? So, yeah, if they don't like anything, it's really strange, you know? When you were in New York, it was when you were a sous chef there. That's when you stumbled upon your chocolate chip cookie recipe. Am I right? So, the chocolate recipe is really Jacques Torres and we, I improved with him and all that stuff. Yeah.
Who was the one that deemed it the greatest chocolate chip cookie in the world? Who gave it that title? I think at the time it was the New York Times. I mean, that's a bold statement. I know. What are the things you like about chocolate chip cookies? Because that's always the biggest debate. What are the things you like about it and what are the things you don't want in your chocolate chip cookie? Well, first of all, I mean, I'll start with it for me personally. And I care very much about chocolate chip cookies. And
I don't even know that it's my favorite cookie, but I still, I love it very much. And I've traveled everywhere. By the way, when I got married in Italy, okay, speaking of delicious food, Borgo Santro Piedro. I'm not sure they're a sponsor of this podcast, but if Borgo Santro Piedro would like to sponsor this show, I would love it. I had a beautiful wedding there. And they also liked that I came there and I dressed in costume. Me and some of my friends, we dressed as old tennis players from the 70s.
With wigs and everything like that. With wooden rackets. I can see this. I'll send you a photo. You'll love it. Anyway, my wife one time got forwarded an email that wasn't meant to come to us. That was them writing about our wedding. And they're like, the Americans want biscuits. And they were just- Biscuits? They call cookies biscuits. Yeah.
And it just made me feel like I was such a trashy little person because I wanted a cookie. Anyway, for me, what makes a perfect chocolate chip cookie, the simple thing is I can't have a crunchy cookie. Okay. If a cookie is crunchy, there's no way it's the best cookie in the world. I don't want a crunchy. You make crunchy chocolate chip? So let me ask you this. You want the core of the cookie crunchy.
To be soft. Yes, but I'll be honest with you. I want everything soft. Rarely is a cookie out of the oven better than before it went into the oven.
That's my two cents. Listen. But that's the thing. Anybody says it's the greatest in the world. It's like, well, there's different. I know. Everyone has different tastes. I agree. And I'm an idiot, so mine shouldn't count. I never agree on the best of this, the best of that. But you have to play the game, too. Now, in general, do you feel that you have to be extremely patriotic
to your homeland? Do you have to, like, say that French food is the best food? No, I'm not. Because it's not, right? Well, I mean, there's a lot of good stuff. There's great stuff, but it's not the best. But it's not. No. You know, French has elevated the notion of going out and restaurants and conviviality and all this to a more...
How would you say like, you know, bold thing, you know? So we advertise it better than other country. When I'm in Paris, my wife gets so mad because people speak to me in French and speak to her in English. Because I know how to blend. I know how to blend. I even had a person that I stay with, he goes, every day I tried to dress and he goes, today you look like a true Frenchman. I'm like, oh, I'm very excited to hear that.
I love, I love France. They like to eat too late. I don't like that. Right. I like to be at a restaurant right when they open five o'clock. Which is not happening in France. No, that's, that's, that's insane. So I, yeah, to have dinner at 10, 11, that's not good for me. It's my stomach. I like, I like food to sit for a little bit. Right. I spent time in France. The last time I was there, I had a French chef give my wife a
And all I could, the food was, she made probably the worst meal she's ever made. It was unacceptable. I got some video of that, I'm sure. The one thing that I took from him, he just constantly kept telling her to clean up while she was cooking. And I respected that. I was like, yes. She's always, he's like, yeah, you clean while you cook. Is that what you want? And I just was like, good. Listen to this. You clean as you go. Uh-huh. That's right. Let me tell you about a restaurant in France, in Paris that I ate at. And I want you to tell me on,
I'm wrong. Everyone's, I had to go there, Septeen. I know Septeen. It's a hard restaurant to get into. Right. Not a lot of Americans sitting in there. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, okay, I want to experience this. I'm very open-minded. I enjoy good food. It was too much. It was too much for me. Too much.
Too much. I don't know what. Explain too much. Too much, too fancy, too, I don't know, like I don't need foam over some cold egg dish. I don't know what I was eating, everything. And my server, who he was very...
He was curious at why I was there. And then he could tell sometimes when one of the courses, he's like, how was that? He's like, that's a bit woodsy, huh? I'm like, I don't describe things as woodsy. But anyway, am I wrong to not love that restaurant? It's a big debate right now, like about those restaurants that, you know, how do you define fine dining? How do you define...
a good time in a restaurant? Is it, you know, the decor? Is it the fancy food? Is it the overly transformed food, like you said? You know, there's a lot of restaurants like this. I think they go too far now. And they won't do anything that's not from the region. So, like, I wanted a dessert. I was like, oh, is there anything that has chocolate or anything? No, because chocolate's not from France. So I'm like, okay. That's a little extreme because, I mean...
Are you going to deny, you know, fruit because it's, you know, it's coming from Spain or? Don't get them started on Spain. That's the most expensive meal I've ever had in my life where I was like, oh, I really did not enjoy that.
How come there's no good Mexican food in France? Yeah, you're right. I think it's changing a little. Is it? Yeah. Do you like Mexican food? I do. Oh, it's so good. I do. Can you handle spice? To a certain level. Definitely more than an average French person, which have absolutely no tolerance for whatever, for spice. So yeah, I've traveled, so I've learned how to sweat it out.
You know? Do you miss living in France? Yes and no. French respect their quality of life.
You know, they'll fight for it. And that's their primary thing, all quality of life. And when I go there, I appreciate that. You know, I appreciate that. Well, I'm sorry, I'm not going. You know, I'm done. I want to go home. That's it, you know. I mean, my boss in New York used to say, in America, you know, you're like an orange, you know. We squeeze you to death and then we throw you out. We find someone else to do it.
What a nice boss. I know. I take vacations constantly. Yeah. That's literally almost all I do. Yeah. I just vacation. And when I'm on vacation, I'm planning my next vacation. I work in locations just so I can vacation. You have the luxury to do that. Mm-hmm. You know, because in essence...
If you request a day off, they're like, who's going to cover your shift? Who's going to do this? Who's going to do that? And they put the guilt on you. I have to say, like, the restaurant business is probably, like, about 150 years behind everybody. When people talk about restaurants, like, it's so impossible for that business to survive. I'm always like, good. It shouldn't survive. It should—
I can't imagine wanting to cook the same thing every night for 30 years. That's insanity. You'd go crazy. It's interesting you say that. I was in New York, and one of my customers had changed the menu. And he came, and he complained that,
He came like a few times. He really liked that dish. And, you know, why I took it off the menu, I'm like, well, I just cooked it 30,000 times. Yeah. You came to, you know, you come twice a month.
and you enjoy it, I cook it every night, you know, hundreds of times. I'm like, I'm done, I'm tired, you know? So I think that's the situation in the restaurant business in general in America. I don't think the system is viable anymore. It's always you have to do it the cheapest way.
the most efficient way. You don't care. At the end, who suffers? The staff, you know, the staff and them all. Honestly, I think there's way too many restaurants in general here. In Los Angeles? Yeah, anywhere. Well, I live out, you know, pretty far out in Malibu, and there's just a small group of restaurants. And anytime one of them closes, I get excited because I'm like, good, there'll be a new restaurant. I'm tired of eating there anyway. You worked at Bacara, right?
In Santa Barbara. That's right. Back when Baccaro was nice. Now, I know Baccaro is not a sponsor, and I don't care, because ever since the Ritz-Carlton took over, you've fallen off. I don't want to be there anyway. I'd rather stay at, what's it called, Sandra Cedar Ranch or something like that. Anyway, do you like Sandra Cedar Ranch? Oh, it's beautiful property. It's so beautiful. Oh, my God. It's a classic. And you get your room there, and everything's included.
Your meal at the restaurant and everything like that. So that's when you start ordering like a crazy person. I got to get my money's worth. It's so expensive. You worked at Bacara. How long did you work there? Four years. Uh-huh. Did you come from New York to directly there? That's right. See, that's a good switch. You needed that after that.
After New York, like the squeezing of the orange, then you come to Bacara and you're just like, ah. Oh, yeah. You go from 8 million people to 80,000. You know, it's like you eat the wall like full blast. You know what I mean? I used to, you know, finish work and try to get a glass of wine somewhere in town. And it's like 9.30 and everybody's like, oh, we're closed. I'm like, what? What?
It took me a while to adjust. You ever read a nasty review about yourself? Oh, yeah. Oh.
What's the worst thing you can remember? That was written by Gail Green, who was like a really famous food writer for the New York Magazine. I mean, very well respected. And there was a time I was at the Cirque and we did a beef cheek ravioli. This is the story of Ratatouille. Go on. Okay. And you're going to like this. And she wrote a review. So it was not for me personally, but for the restaurant because I was a sous chef there.
And she said that out there, they had to serve her beef cheek ravioli. It's basically the equivalent of dog food. And like two years later, Mario Batali opened Babbo, and one of his signature dishes was a beef cheek ravioli. Okay. And she wrote about it, and she raved about it. Okay, so discredit the review. I was like, oh, my God, I got crazy, you know? Years after that—
She writes a review now for me as a chef, a Montrachet. Uh-huh. So it was generic and I was doing an event in East Hampton and she calls me because she was going to write a review and she wanted to do a fact check. So she's like, hey, Amy, how's everything? Blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, I don't want to talk to you. She's like, why? I don't want to talk to you. I'm still upset about something. And she's like, why? When you
You remember when... Dog food. Yeah. You remember when I was at Le Cirque and you wrote that review and you said that we serve you dog food? And she's like, oh. I'm like, yeah, beef chikrabioli? And then like a year and a half later, you like rave about...
My old doing the same thing at Babel? I'm like, come on. I love that you hold a grudge. I love that you hold a grudge. I mean, it was a nice way. You know, I was not really mean, but I wanted to make my point. Oh, sure, sure. You made your point. I made my point. And what did she say? She apologized. Ah, there you go. Yeah. Food allergies. What do you do when someone gives you a laundry list of things that can't be in their food? Yeah.
I remember there was a lady that came to a restaurant where I worked and the server comes in the kitchen and goes, "Chef, I need to talk to you." I'm like, "Okay, what's the deal?" And he gives me like a little kind of like a large business card laminated. He had the name of a doctor on top. I mean, it looks like very official, but who cares?
And I didn't call the doctor. No. And there's like 17 ingredients listed. Don't go to a restaurant. He's like, what do you want me to tell? I'm like, I'm going to the hotel. So I went in the dining room and said, listen, I have to apologize, but we're not going to be able to feed you tonight.
And we cannot even offer you a glass of wine because you say you're allergic to alcohol. So we'll be happy to give you a glass of water. Right. And stay with your friend. And she was a big party with seven people. And she started making a scene. I go all the places. They try to accommodate me. I'm like, listen.
They can do whatever they want over there. You should have gone there. And she looked at me. She's like, you're serious? I'm like, absolutely. And as I turned back, I hear a friend going, it's about time someone is calling you bullshit. I was like. Good. I dated this girl. Just an amazing body. I mean, her last boyfriend was Hugh Hefner. Okay? Yeah. She had.
Huge shellfish allergy. Oh, that's good. I mean, very dangerous. Has the EpiPen with her at all times. Where do I take her on our first date? A nice little seafood shack restaurant. No way. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. I want to see where I'm at in the relationship. What does she order? A baked potato. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
That's a true story. Oh, man. Why do you hang out with my friend John so much? I know. I don't understand the relationship at all. You
He's a good guy, you know. I mean, sure he's a good guy, but still it doesn't make any sense. A French chef and then John, this guy from Ohio. But he loves food. Yes, he does. He does. And you know, I mean. And that's all you care about? No. I mean, the guy actually cooks for me. Can you imagine? Do you enjoy eating when someone cooks for you or is it? This is the best part because I think most people are,
They are frightened by cooking for me, you know? Sure. And, you know, for me, when they cook for me, I'm like, I'm grateful. They appreciate me. I appreciate them. I mean, and it's not the end result. It's the conviviality. It's being together and, you know, sharing a meal. All right. What's your favorite American fast food restaurant chain?
Oh my God, I don't eat fast food. Of course you don't. You know what the answer to that question is? None of it. It's all horrible. That's right. Have you ever had fast food from a fast food restaurant? Yes. Which restaurant? In-N-Out. In-N-Out. Oh, well, I mean, now that you say that out loud, it's like, I mean, I turn a blind eye to that. That's nice. Yeah, it was in Santa Barbara. Okay. And it was invited by Julia Child.
How messed up is that? That's amazing. That's an amazing story. And you are from New York, you know. So when I moved to Santa Barbara, she's like, oh, I made it. So nice to see you. Let's go to In-N-Out. No, she's like, I'll tweet you. Let's go on a date. Let's go for lunch. And I'm like driving around and I'm like, where are we going? And I'm like, oh, keep going, keep going. And then she just, did you guys go inside? Yes. Oh, you sat in a booth? Yes.
They give you little hats. You could have worn one of their little hats there. The best part is like, you know, they're kids in there. And then you have no clue who Julia Child was. So only the older people, like the parents or whatever, they're like, oh, my God, it's Julia Child. So good. And I remember all the lady – because I paid, you know. Oh, you're such a gentleman. Yeah. I mean, come on. And –
But the person at the cash register would be like, your grandma forgot her cup for the soda. Yeah.
Oh, your grandma. But, you know, I mean, she was as tall as me, you know. She was like 6'1 or 6'2. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. She was a giant woman. That's great. I remember her coming in the kitchen like in New York, you know, once. And she's like, oh, Amy, I love you. I admire you. You are one of the few cooks who still cook with butter. Oh, my God.
She was a character. You ever eat at a buffet in Vegas? Yeah, I have. With Julia Childs? You have to be able to experience all those different...
Like I said, those big American things. You know, I cannot say I've been to Vegas and I only eat in three-star Michelin star, which is nice. But I also have to experience, okay, what is the big deal with the buffet, you know? And how was your experience? Oh, my God. It's almost disgusting. Yeah.
I mean, to see this. You think that's disgusting? When I used to start working in Vegas, when I was a young comedian. You loved it. No, no. I didn't get to eat at the buffet. I had eaten the buffet in the basement with all the employees. The employees. It'd be like the women with the headdresses on coming through and we're all just shoveling food onto our plates. And I was like, this is as sad as it can get.
But I would do it because it was free. Exactly. Do you eat sandwiches? I do. I love a sandwich. A good sandwich is good. Oh, I love a sandwich. But it has to be like the right proportion, the right texture. Perfect bread. Yeah. The bread is the key, you know, because if it's too hard, you cannot bite it. Yeah. What do you think of wraps? Wraps upset you? Yeah, wraps is dumb. Wraps is good for like...
Tasteless vegan people. Enough said. You're a personal chef now? Yes, I am. Do you prefer that? I mean, it was never something I really wanted to do. You know, it was the fact that the pandemic hit and whatever I was doing hit the bottom like everybody else. And I was lucky that this person came and said, hey...
You pay your dues for a while. Come with me and I'll help you. All right, let's talk about this. I want to talk about the personal chef. I want to know what's accessible to people and what's not. How many meals are you cooking a week for them? Are you there every day, seven days a week? Are you there five days a week? Three days a week now. Three days a week. All right, so you're open for business. You could take on another account. That's right.
a nice dinner entree, the whole nine, nice fish. I wanted you to do the shopping, everything, dessert and everything like that. What am I looking for for four people? Let's say the cheapest would be 700. Okay. Two, you know, it could be a lot higher. Sure. All right. So about 700. I'm going to be on the cheaper end. I feel my tastes are probably on the cheaper end there.
And you do present it and serve it or no? So it depends. Some people want it plated because they want a fancy dinner. They have really high-profile guests like my boss. Once he has high-profile guests, so everything is plated. I have servers. I mean, we do the whole thing. When it's family, we do it family style. Okay. When it's just a family, we do it family style. Is your client a celebrity? Yeah.
Not per se. Uh-huh. Okay. I mean, he's a very successful business person. Business? What kind of business are they in? I would say biotech, software. Oh, okay. Yeah. I'm no longer interested. No. Your specialty is fish. That's what I like to cook best. Do you do all the shopping? I do. Where's the best place to get fish in L.A.? I mean, it really depends what you're looking for. Shrimp cocktail. Okay.
Who doesn't like your shrimp cocktail? I don't. I have to see you order a shrimp cocktail. It's disgusting. Everyone talks about like, oh, this is the perfect chef's kitchen. What do you actually want? What's a great kitchen for you? Have you seen John's kitchen? John's house is, I get lost. I've never, I can't imagine the footprint of his house is so confusing to me. But no, every room I walk into, he's like, I just renovated this. I'm like, oh, it looks great. And,
But then you go into that one room where the two little kids are in little cages next to each other. That's kind of scary. Having twins. I had twin sisters. Did you? Older or younger? Older. I guess that might be a little bit. No, no, no. It was not cool. No? Because I was like... A toy? I was a toy. Yeah.
For a while. Oh, that's good. Do they enjoy your cooking? Yeah, they do. That's good. No, everybody in my family enjoy my cooking, that's for sure. Do they force you to cook when you guys get together? They don't force me, but I feel like, you know, they're not always culinary inclined. I mean, they appreciate good things. They don't have the skills sometimes. So I let them plan and then I help.
It's really funny how it's such a skill. Like you think, oh, you can read so you should be able to cook and the two don't go hand in hand. Do you know what I'm saying? I don't mean to simplify it to that level. No, no, I get it. But it's like if you give me step-by-step instructions, I still will not make a meal that tastes anywhere the way it should. Yeah, and that's kind of like what it is with my sisters. I mean, they appreciate great food. They want the good food.
So, you know, what I do is I go shopping with them. I still won't do it. I just, I'd rather, there's no, the money is worth it. Grocery shopping alone is the worst thing ever. Even for me. You know what I would pay a fortune for someone, a service. I want somebody to invent this. I want someone to bring me four pieces of fruit every day to my house. That's it.
Because all I do is throw fruit away. Yeah. Because it's no longer good. Yep. And I just want every day four pieces set on my doorstep. Somebody do that. They used to deliver milk. They used to put milk on people's doorstep. Why can't somebody put four pieces of fruit every day? Isn't it crazy, the milk at the door? Oh, that is pretty stupid. I was like... And apparently all they were doing was banging the moms. Wow. Yeah.
No wonder it was a good gig. What about relationships with people, physical, sexual relationships? When you spend 10, 12 hours close to people, it gets pretty intense. Sure. Do you ever, while having sex, do you ever yell corner? You're watching too much TV. Yeah.
Do you watch The Bear? Oh, my God. This is the... This is the question everyone asks now? This is the question everybody wants. It's so intense. They all seem like they're on the verge of a breakdown. My gosh. It's so intense.
It was accurate in some level? The level of screaming and the level of disconnection between every character. Yeah, I mean, the first season, I have to say, I had PTSD. I was like, holy shit, I couldn't go to sleep. Talk to me about cooking shows. Do you hate them?
Do you like them? Do you find them entertaining? Do you watch them? I mean, I do watch a few of them, but I haven't in a while. I like the Great British Baking Show. I know that you prefer... I know you prefer the French version. I do. I'm not going to watch that, though. It's interesting to watch in parallel. I don't know why, but there is some time...
The Bridge version, I'm very impressed. And sometimes I'm like, come on, you shouldn't even put this on TV. Well, I just, I mean, it's a sweet show. Just rarely is there a show where everyone's positive and nice to each other. That's true. And it's not about insulting. And for goodness sakes, the Paul Hollywood, he does a handshake and that's the biggest deal in the world to people. Right. What about Guy Fieri? You ever met that guy? I did. Is it true that his hair is made from cheese whiz? No.
It probably is. Why is Michelin, the tire company, in charge of telling us what the fanciest food in the world is? Yeah, well, they've done it for like over 100 years. Why? Why is the two things— Because it never started for the general public. It started for their reps. When they were going at the beginning of the 20th century, when they were going from town to town, trying to sell tires.
The guys would start making notes like, oh, next time you're in that region, stop there for lunch. Well, who gives a shit what this dumb tire salesman thinks is good food? I mean, yeah, before you're like a tire company. But it still means something. Everyone still talks. Oh, it's a Michelin star. Because they're the oldest, most established one. What about Zagat? Remember Zagat? Zagat.
Oh, is it Zagat? I think woke culture canceled that. I mean, it's my accent. But yeah, I mean, Zagat was pretty good because you had a rating for the service. You had a rating for the ambiance, you know, the decor and all this. And you had a rating for the food.
So by reading like the few little lines, you had the general consensus of what you were getting into, you know? Right. Versus Yelp, where Yelp is just people complaining that they didn't get enough fucking eggs. Oh, my chair was wobbling a little. It's not a useful review. I look at Yelp and I'm like, if the reviews don't say like, oh, they refuse to serve Asian people, then I'd be like, oh, I'm glad they wrote that.
I won't go there. But if you're going to complain that the meal was $5 overpriced, I'm like, I don't care. I don't want to read three paragraphs. Yet I do. I still read it. And that's one thing I never actually, I never ever read Yelp because it's just a waste of time. I disagree with you on one thing because then I can at least look at photos.
If I can look at photos of the restaurant inside, I can get a feel. If I look how they printed their menu, if their menu looks disgusting, you know, a bad font. A bad font, I'm out. But now you have so many ways of getting this. I mean, you have so many. You have...
better pictures whatever it's easy that's how I use it for some things I'm just saying I still use it for something tell me some overrated restaurants here in LA oh I don't do that okay fine I'm gonna tell you some restaurants I don't do that because fine I'm gonna tell you some restaurants that I eat at and you tell me if it's overrated Giorgio Baldi okay you had to eat this one first yeah for me it's it's
A little overrated. Okay. The sweet corn ravioli. That's very delicious. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. How dare you, Remy? All right. Have you ate at FIA in Santa Monica? F-I-A. Yes. Oh, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful restaurant. That's beautiful. That's date night. My wife makes me take her on date night. Our rule is once a month I have to take my wife on a date. That's a good rule. It's a dumb rule. Why? I'd rather not go out.
I know. I know. If she didn't say you have to take me out once a month, I would never take her out ever. I would be zero times and I would fall more in love with her. What do you think, John and Vinny's? John and Vinny's, the restaurant itself, I think overrated. Remember when you said you weren't going to say if things were overrated and then I say the restaurants and you immediately say that they're overrated? Because I let you say the restaurants. I don't want to put the name on them. That's fine. Fair. Felix in Venice. Felix is good. It's good?
It's good. Hard to get in, but... Thank you. Let me tell you something about it. So I take my wife there occasionally to Felix. Sometimes I'll have my assistant make my reservation and they'll make...
Two reservations. Right. So what time you get in when you have your reservation? I don't know, five, six, something silly. Of course. But if it's something, I say you have to put it under my name. Not that it gives you anything, but at least it's my name. They'll give me a better table. Right. But sometimes it gets put under her name and I lost my mind because then I had a garbage table in the back. That's my biggest complaint with restaurants is,
I understand it's the margin for profit is impossible. I understand that. I don't want to sit two inches away from somebody else. Now it's date night. I'm this far away from somebody. Guess what, Remy? I'm not going to talk to my wife tonight because I don't want these people listening to me talk. So I just sit there. Understood. So charge me three times as much and fucking move the table two feet away. And that's always my point. You know, if you're...
business model is not sustainable to be. So how do you define fine dining, intimacy, the ambiance? But if you're so close to each other and you're charging high price, well, maybe there is something. Do you need the volume or you need this? And that's, yeah, there's a small margin everywhere. Yeah. What do you think of Nobu?
Nobu is a chain. Ah, look at that. Nobu is a chain. That's a chain. Your final meal before you die. Oh. What are you having? I haven't decided yet. I'm not ready to die yet. No, good. I'm thinking I'm going to have a big burrito just because I want to make a mess. Yeah. I never heard that. What about chili? Do you ever make chili? Yeah, I do. I love chili. Yeah.
I'm just feeling you out for things I like. You ever make a brookie? I have. You've made a brookie? I have. That's the stupidest thing. I know. I still don't get it. What are you talking about? You don't get it. It's a brownie and a cookie. It's a brookie.
Yeah. Do you ever make a Queen Amann? Queen Amann, yeah. Are they difficult? They're tricky. I mean, I wouldn't say difficult, but yeah, just a lot of sugar and butter. I know. I eat one once a week at the farmer's market. I go to the farmer's market and there's a pastry person there and I get a Queen Amann and I'm like...
You're good for the weekend. No, just for that day. You get sugar. I have, I have, see, I come from a line of sweet tooths. Okay. My, my grandfather was a baker. All right. I had a bakery, had a couple bakeries and, and, and my dad bakes and I've always enjoyed baking and I've always just, I can, I,
every meal I have, I can eat a dessert. No matter how amazing a restaurant is, if their dessert menu doesn't appeal to me, rarely am I interested in going.
I need to know that the dessert is going to be delicious as well. Well, you know, I mean, it makes sense. You know, this is how you end the meal. Yeah. In a restaurant especially, I feel for me the last thing, either the little petit four, the miniardies, or the dessert, that you're right, that's what's going to set it up. Because if you put all that effort to do the beginning and then you end up on a woof note, it's not going to be good.
It just killed it. Every Asian restaurant, horrible desserts. I know. What's up with that? That's too funny. All right. Tell me about your famous canelé. What about the canelé? First of all, what the fuck is a canelé? What the fuck is a canelé?
It's nothing. It's kind of like a kuyenan of Bordeaux. You know, it's very sweet. It's a texture thing, so the outside is really crunchy. The inside is kind of gooey. You might not like it since you don't like crunchy stuff. No, I just don't like a crunchy cookie. Yeah.
But the center is kind of like soft and gooey, and the external is, you know, very crunchy. And how did you perfect it? By trial and errors. You're very protective. You won't let anybody know how you actually make them, correct? Well, I will tell them how to make them, but it takes a little more than that to do that because it's really a game of patience. And really, I mean, I did some today. Okay. So you're going to try it. Oh, wow. Wow.
Do I have anything? Oh, look at this presentation. Is that the best cookie in there? All right. It looks good to me.
That's fine. How dare you? It's beautiful. It's a beautiful cookie. My wife, she's always like, whenever I make chocolate chip cookies for her, she doesn't want a lot of chocolate in it. And I'm like, what? There's a lot of chocolate. I know. I'm excited about it. I think in the recipe, there's more chocolate than flour. Oh, really? Yeah, I'm a fan. I'm a fan. Oh, that's good stuff. Yeah, that's good stuff.
You know what grosses me out the most about food shows is watching people eat. Yeah. It's disgusting. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know what you're doing? Yeah, of course. What an amazing cookie. This is the best cookie I've ever had in my life. That's a crazy thing to ask. I don't know. Yeah. But I would, I'd pay $5 for this for one cookie. That's fair. At a farmer's market. That's fair. That's a good price.
Do you ever sell your cookies? No. Oh. I know. I'm stupid. All right. Now this. How are you supposed to eat this? Are you supposed to bite it? Yeah. Anything fancy? What do I need to know about this? It's very crunchy outside. And it's going to be like pudding in the inside or no? Is it going to spill? No. No. Do I need to cleanse my palate before with some water? If you'd like to. I don't know. I mean...
Yeah, you don't want your tongue to be coated in chocolate before you do that. Yeah, I don't even know what I'm about to taste at all. What if I don't like it? You don't have to finish it. Oh, the smile. I like it. I love it. Here's the thing. I could eat nothing but dessert until I die. I know my life wouldn't be long. But you'd be nice. Oh, I'd be nice. Yeah, that's really good.
That's really neat. Well, you've got it. Listen, thank you very much. This is exciting. Chef Remy, this is the way to my heart. A chocolate chip cookie. I appreciate everything. Thanks. Thanks, Daniel. Okay. That was four. Family.
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