Father Peace
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Father Peace
@Reverend_Peace
Cooker of food and builder of stuff. Vocation is engineering. AI models and agents. Wary of ideologues. Amused by casual idiocy.


Jeff Zalaznick is co-founder of Major Food Group — the company behind Carbone, ZZ's, Torrisi, The Grill, The Pool, and dozens of the best restaurants in the world. He's started 77 restaurants and bars, and 76 are still open and profitable. We recorded this inside The Pool, one of the most historic restaurants in America. Jeff has been obsessed with restaurants since he was a kid, and that obsession runs through everything he's built. 0:00 Seventy-Seven Restaurants, Seventy-Six Still Winning 3:16 The First American Menu Written In English 4:14 JFK's Cream Of Asparagus 9:49 Fifty Years Of Smoke, Forty Million To Restore 13:42 One Text: "Four Seasons?" 16:17 Always Bet On Who Wants It Most 19:13 Kill Lunch To Own Dinner 24:00 The Only Thing That Matters Is If They Come Back 29:37 Going Viral Isn't The Same As Being Good 36:36 Watching Cooking Shows Instead Of Cartoons 41:47 The Men At The Top Were Miserable 43:21 Walking Into The Mandarin To Beg For Any Job 49:40 A Front-Row Seat To His Hero 53:06 Belief Comes Before Ability 55:35 Burning The Boats 57:31 Marry The Chef, Don't Hire Him 59:25 The Best Version Of Something You Already Love 1:03:56 The Hail Mary Call At Ten O'Clock 1:08:29 "A Piacere" — Whatever You Want 1:13:24 The Broken Neon Sign That Became An Icon 1:18:17 Go With Whatever Feels Natural 1:22:27 A Ten-Dollar Jar Of The Restaurant 1:24:15 Your Mediocrity Is My Opportunity 1:27:34 Netflix With A Restaurant 1:32:11 The Club Where The Food Comes First 1:37:07 Miami Was New Year's Eve Every Night 1:40:45 Carbone Miami In 100 Days 1:46:08 The Greatest Beach Club In America Includes paid partnerships.









"I won't pretend to be up here and defend Bryson. I'm not particularly fond of him. I think a lot of it's performative. I think a lot of it's for attention." Rory McIlroy commented on Bryson DeChambeau’s two-shot penalty at Royal Birkdale and how he handled it. 🗣️







New: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro. Late last month, the company updated the data being used to train Gemini to improve its skills—they're especially behind in AI coding—but the results were "disappointing," a source told us. w/ @byJuliaLove












