I woke up this morning to my 37th year on this earth. I don’t know if you would call it a mid-life crisis, but I came to thinking. What have I accomplished? What else needs to be done? I still try to live life to the fullest, to seize the day, to take control of my fate. And I have done quite a bit. Yet, Serendipity has left the best for last. So here are the 37 things, in no particular order, that I would like to do before I go six feet under…
- Be at the helm of my own successful Italian restaurant
- Spend a whole afternoon having sushi in downtown Kyoto
- Get my mug on the cover of leading Food and Beverage Magazines
- Finally get ‘Souped Up’ and ‘Hoagies’ up and running
- Have ‘Nyotaimori’ for lunch
- Consume a 10-course meal at The French Laundry
- Down a whole Bottle of Chateau Petrus 1993
- Work for Jamie Oliver for one week
- Meet Eric Ripert and spend a day with him cooking
- Bake the perfect Soufflé
- Put up a REAL soup kitchen somewhere in Malate
- To dine at Trotters, Chicago
- Grill steak in the African Savannah
- Gossip with Napolitano women in the afternoon while making conchiglie on the side streets
- Have the perfect espresso on the cobblestones of Rome
- Fish for Alaskan Crab
- Grow my own herb garden
- Go restaurant hopping in New York
- Spend a week crashing at a Vegetarian’s apartment
- Create the best thing after sliced bread
- Write and Publish an award-winning cookbook
- Be given the opportunity to reject an offer to cook on TV
- Build a great kitchen at home with all the bells and whistles
- Expose the government on their neglect on Philippine nutrition and poverty
- Throw pies at those pretentious chefs that appear on TV
- Teach an out-of-school youth and drug addict how to cook
- Spend an afternoon having Tequila and burritos in Mexicali
- Have a nice seafood dinner with my family on the sands of Boracay.
- Earn even just one Michelin Star
- Fly back to Zurich to live and cook
- To be the invisible driving force behind the restaurant industry
- To be Nigella’s favorite pen pal
- Have a few beers with Japanese business men while wolfing down yakitori in the alleyways of Tokyo
- Enjoy a cognac while overlooking the Hong Kong Skyline at night
- To actually emulate that Chivas Regal Ad in the Arctic
- Making pot roast in my own ‘off-the-grid’ home
- To make the culinary world a better place for everyone
Should I chronicle when will these things be done? Yeah, maybe I should…
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