Daniel Boulud – Answers to questions that no one has asked before.
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The strangest thing I’ve ever eaten.
Chocolate Covered Cicadas
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When and where were you born?
USA, raised in Europe.
What was your first job in food?
Server.
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A Scientist.
What is your favorite thing about being a chef?
Making people happy with my food
Did you have an “aha” moment when you knew you wanted to be a chef?
3 years old in the kitchen with my Grandma
Best advice you ever got?
Just do it.
What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?
Chocolate Covered Cicadas
Your favorite ingredient.
Eggs
The ingredient that turns you off the most.
Ketchup
Your favorite tool.
No tools, but my favorite cooking item is my Grandmother’s cast iron skillet. It’s over 150 years old.
What is your favorite thing to do when you’re not cooking.
Reading, Writing, Photography
What would you like to do before you get too old to do it.
See the pyramids of Giza.
Tell us a deep dark secret (doesn’t have to be food related).
I am a scientist with two PhDs.
How do you deal with the stress?
Meditate, then cook.
How did becoming a chef change your life, your direction.
Reconnection with the land and my heritage.
Who would you like to meet?
Emeril Lagasse
Who would you like to cook for?
My Family and Friends
What was the hardest thing for you to learn? Or is there something you just can’t get right?
Macaroons
Is there some little something you do for your family to make up for the time you’re not with them?
I leave prepped meals in the fridge for them
Please give us a cooking tip that people might not know like “adding a little bit of oil to butter so it doesn’t burn.
None that I can think off right now.
Tell us a funny story from the kitchen
At 14, the Red Velvet Cake Catastrophe. Baking a red velvet cake using my Grandmother’s Recipe Book from the 1920s. It did not go as planned. The cake burned on the outside, looking like a charred rubber tire that had been murdered. My brother remarked that I could have killed the Russians with that cake. T
