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10 things you need to know about Phoenix restaurateur Sam Fox
Phoenix restaurateur Sam Fox made headlines this week when he sold his Fox Restaurant Concepts to the Cheesecake Factory Incorporated for $308 million in cash.
While questions remain about how exactly the sale will affect local favorites such as Blanco Tacos and Tequila, North Italia and Culinary Dropout, here are 10 things you need to know about the restaurateur himself.
He's been an entrepreneur since childhood
Fox caught the entrepreneurial bug at a young age, selling gum to classmates. He told Arizona Republic reporter Sue Doerfler in 2015, "I would go to Price Club and buy a pack for 25 cents and I'd go to school and sell a piece for 25 cents each," he said. "I think the janitor at school probably hated me. There was gum all over."
He comes from a family of restaurateurs
Fox blended his entrepreneurial spirit with knowledge of restaurants from his family. Fox is a third-generation restaurateur, and his parents
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Where to start with this odd and badly written biography of the former Michelin-starred chef, minor TV personality and tabloid headline-hogger? Well, how about the time Burton-Race returned drunk from a night out with his then wife Kim to find his stepdaughters Olivia and Eve and Eve’s boyfriend with what Burton-Race thought was drugs on the kitchen table. His response? To go to the utility room and unlock the gun cabinet where he kept ‘a Beretta and a special edition Browning worth £7,500’ and return to the kitchen wielding a shotgun. During a struggle, he knocked Olivia to the floor and hit both her and his wife in the face with the butt of the gun.
That may well be all you need to know about Burton-Race, who you may remember from his 2007 appearance on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, but if for some reason you are still considering parting with £20 for this shoddy, thrown-together book then read on. Cowton has based the above anecdote on an intervi
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Anthony Bourdain
American ledare and travel documentarian (1956–2018)
Anthony Michael Bourdain (bor-DAYN; June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian.[1][2][3] He starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition.[4]
Bourdain was a 1978 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of many professional kitchens during his career, which included several years spent as an executive ledare at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan. In the late 1990s Bourdain wrote an essay about the ugly secrets of a Manhattan restaurant, but he was having difficulty getting it published. According to the New York Times, his mother Gladys—then an editor and writer at the paper—handed her son's essay to friend and fellow editor Esther B. Fein, the wife of David Remnick, editor of the magazine The New Yorker.[5][6][7