Tony in The Kitchen Boourdain

 

TONY in The KITCHEN

ANTHONY BOURDAIN on "BRUNCH"

He HATED IT !!!

“I do not have a particularly prestigious or notable career. And for much of the time as a chef, I was unemployable by respectable businesses. And the only people who would hire me would hire me for brunch shifts because most cooks hated doing brunch for very good reasons.

I was good at it, but it was the only work I could get. And I came to hate the - you know, when you’re cooking 300 omelets a day and, you know, scraping waffles out of the waffle iron and making French toast and pancakes and . . . cooking hundreds of pounds of home fries, those smells, those associations, those were very painful times - addiction, post-addiction. I was a desperate man, often working under a pseudonym when I was cooking brunch. So I really hated it, and I also hated the whole concept of brunch.

And later as a chef, I hated it because it was a huge profit center that caused problems for me as an employer because all my cooks hated to do it. But it was such a moneymaker because people are so foolishly happy to pay $22 for the same two eggs and bacon . . . that they have during the week for $7 or even - or $3. Give them a free mimosa and a little strawberry fan and suddenly they’re happy to - I just had utter contempt for the entire enterprise.”

–Anthony Bourdain