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Rocco DiSpirito: Misunderstood Chef of the People or Megalomaniacal Celebrity?
why doesn't someone smart out there figure out a way for him to cook without having to be responsible for a restaurant 365 days of the year? obviously he is "supernaturally talented" in the kitchen but just doesn't want to deal with the hassle of day in/day out running of a restaurant. lets be selfish and get him cooking in way that he can be successful at it (and we can eat his food)!
Rocco DiSpirito: Misunderstood Chef of the People or Megalomaniacal Celebrity?
Great write-up Thomas_traveler...
Donnamarie... by the way... Rocco was on Food Network long before the current Food Network personalities were ever on there.
Anyhow- you'd be surprised by how much time your favorite chefs actually do spend in the kitchen. A chef that actually has the personality to talk to their guests, should.
Rocco DiSpirito: Misunderstood Chef of the People or Megalomaniacal Celebrity?
Union Pacific was an amazingly delicious restaurant. It opened up new worlds of food and wine appreciation for me--ones that I haven't had equaled, not at Per Se, not at Ko.
I took a date there who swore that she didn't like certain foods and left wanting to know why she'd been so blind all her life. The service was impeccable. And when I was fortunate enough to talk to Chef DiSpirito, he was very modest about it all.
So, enough with the hate. Let's get Rocco back in the kitchen where he belongs.
Rocco DiSpirito: Misunderstood Chef of the People or Megalomaniacal Celebrity?
I saw him on The Restaurant--I had never heard of him before, actually. Watching him simper for the ladies while his staff was in the weeds made me hate him. What kind of chef opens a restaurant and spends no time in the kitchen? What kind of MAN has his poor old mama making meatballs for the restaurant? Give me a break! I always get the impression that he's waiting to be given a job on the Food Network--like it's his God-given right as a "celebrity chef" and if he can only put his face out there enough, FN will come knocking on his door. I hope that never happens.
Rocco DiSpirito: Misunderstood Chef of the People or Megalomaniacal Celebrity?
Wow- at least if Rocco DID open a restaurant, he would know that all of you haters or lovers would be customers. He's one of the nicest, most talented guys in the food world. Of course he has an ego, what chef doesn't?!? You have to have some form of an ego when you're competing with 945,000 other restaurants in this country. So do the thousands of investment bankers that walk around NYC- guess what? If investment bankers were on a reality show flaunting their money and skills, they would have even bigger egos too. Is it bad that Rocco wants to get in and teach to mainstream America- I don't think so- I actually think more people should do that.
Rocco DiSpirito: Misunderstood Chef of the People or Megalomaniacal Celebrity?
I understand he is not a management person. So with all his assets and connections why not haul his happy ass back to Restaurant management school and get some education. Get a mentor. Do something other than piss and moan about how it is everyone else's fault.
I saw him on Mike and Juliet in the morning with his mother again this week. I am sure she is proud of him but holy shit stop turning your mother out for TV. There she was hawking his new book and her son. He wonders why people are passing rumors about his sexuality could it be because his mother accompanies him everyplace.
My advise is for him to go back to his roots and cook some great food maybe with an organization that can babysit him. Or go back to school and learn how to turn a profit. It is not a hard formula to learn. Take the talent add the method and turn it around. Stop being a damn whiner.
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why doesn't someone smart out there figure out a way for him to cook without having to be responsible for a restaurant 365 days of the year? obviously he is "supernaturally talented" in the kitchen but just doesn't want to deal with the hassle of day in/day out running of a restaurant. lets be selfish and get him cooking in way that he can be successful at it (and we can eat his food)!