328 - Wolfgang Puck: Knowing Your Calling is Step One. Following It is Step 2 (A Chef’s Journey)

Wolfgang Puck is a famous chef who has successfully created an empire in food. At age 14, he worked in his first restaurant. A few weeks in, he was fired. And contemplating suicide. Fast-forward, and Wolfgang became the first “celebrity chef.” He’s expanded his love of food in every single way: restaurants, cookbooks, catering (he’s catered the Oscars.) Now he also has a MasterClass available online.

“I always wanted to be in charge of my own destiny,” he said. “I thought, ‘This is what I was born to do.” I don’t fully understand destiny. So I wanted to know. How could he actually feel that? How could he know? How could anyone know?

 

Show Notes

Wolfgang’s MasterClass - "Build Your Cooking Techniques"

We talk about some of his restaurants including:

Cut 

Rogue (this one's in LA and only serves 10 people a night) 

Spago 

Eric Ripert (famous chef)

Chef (a movie starring Jon Favreau)

Le Cirque

Billy Wilder (famous director)

Ma Maison

The Wall by Pink Floyd

Serena Williams (tennis player)

Frank Gehry (architecture)

Picasso

Four Seasons

Freddy Rosen who started Ticketmaster

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