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A few cooks and restaurant people in new york would read it and really almost overnight the world became my oyster and i found myself with the best job in the world. i mean, look what i do for a living. i sit around with friends and looking at a map thinking where do we want to go and what stories we want to tell and how do we want to tell them? so it was absolutely transforming event for me and made everything possible. you know? i was a guy who never had health insurance in his life and now i'm on tv. it's -- it was a big, big, big change for me. >> i don't want to be morbid but last meal fo...