Urban Gigolo
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Banking |
| Occupation | Suit. Retired chef. Budding restaurateur. |
| Location | New York, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Fun loving, classically trained chef who's worked for a who's who of chefs gives it all up to become a suit (banker) and actually afford to live in New York. There's a joke in there somewhere. |
| Interests | Gourmand, oenophile, the shiny lights of Las Vegas, bespoke clothing, Les Bleus, gin, backroom poker, Calcutta pools, sports betting, socialites, deflowering socialites, ad nauseam. |
| Favorite movies | Get Shorty (Chili carries himself with style), Get Carter (Caine is one well-dressed bad-ass), Dinner Rush (worked in one of Bob's restaurants), 8 1/2, Layer Cake, Suicide Kings, 80's schlock, Spaghetti Westerns, Collateral, British cockney flicks, documentaries about fruit bats... |
| Favorite music | Beethoven nut (picture Gary Oldman in 'The Professional'), classical, jazz, Cash, Parker, Brubeck, U2, Beatles, House, Electronica, budding appreciation for Opera |
| Favorite books | La Technique, Larousse Gastronomique, The Professional Chef, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (father made me read it at 9), Heat, The Apprentice (Jacques Pepin not Trump), Grand Livre De Cuisine, El Bulli Cookbook, The French Laundry Cookbook |
When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Life moves pretty fast...oh you know how it goes.