chef I want to be a lot of stuff and all
of us
I changed idea million time today I want
to share with you how much our life
experiences can influence our
professional career and how a right
approach or learning process can be
useful to have a successful future first
of all let me speak a little bit about
me this is me I think I’m three or four
years old but this picture is playing a
lot about myself it was I think 7:00 in
the morning this is my kitchen in Naples
and my father prepared for me the
leftover spaghetti from the day before
that I want to eat as breakfast
yes I was always hungry constantly my
brothers always joke about me you are
eating like crazy always I was always
and food make me happy and this is the
most important thing that they want to
share with you this thing that I was
eating it was the day before food just
reheated so not in the special was
making me happy
my father was preparing for me was
showing the love for myself it was
fantastic another important part is the
family all of us when we are making food
that we’re thinking food we’re thinking
about our how food mother but their
realm of food I am the third one of
three brother I am the small one my
father and my mother are still treating
me like the small one I don’t know what
I have to do more to show that I’m not
anymore anyway I am does more wonder my
mother take this picture
84 or 83 she was stuck in the seventies
beetle style as you can see from my
brother’s ear we was in the United
States yes because when I was child my
father was working for national health
is seated the United States in Maryland
and that was like 2/3 two-year and out
two years old he was living a United
States my brother that is 11 year older
than me and the second one 8 year older
than me was learning English was leaving
an adult culture was learning other foot
was just eating at home and I don’t
remember absolutely nothing about that
experience and I leave this part of my
life have a very big opportunity that I
lost especially this to guy then now I
love very much
was very bastard they will speak each
other always in English because I didn’t
understand now I speak Turkish
they don’t understand nothing this is my
revenge anyway and this is my whole
family now me my wife my baby my
brothers we are an epic family and this
is very important for for for the future
of everybody there is a part that show
how much important I gave to the food
when I was 4 years old my father that is
a genetic engineer and the teacher at
University of Naples was working in
Brook cell and we was going in a
fast-food and my big brother Alberto and
now is the marketing director for an
important pharmaceutical company told me
you know the worker can eat for free the
food first dream work I will work in a
fast-food done perfect
now this show a little bit about me I
like to tell this because everybody
should know what they like what make us
happy
the second work that I want to do was
the two guy on the highway to take the
money and you are good buying a mesh or
on the capital on Islam just because I
was thinking that the guy was in the
money for himself so I didn’t want to
push too much to her or something I want
to have a easy life I want to have money
without too much for it but I was an
epic guy clear after that I started to
play tennis and that then is time I want
to be like Pete Sampras that time Pete
Sampras was the hero Boris Becker David
Chang I even play at let’s tell
semi-professional level when I was young
I play five tournament I want just one
match because the other opponent did a
shot
so clearly I wasn’t a great tennis
when I was 13 years old for the first
time I tell to my family I want to be a
chef because I was happy eating and I
was happy cooking about my family that I
need to show again you have to know
something my father is from the Mart my
mother is from Rome I born in Naples it
way we are a full gastronomic of family
my father cook at home he is a very
talented chef even he was a professor at
university my mother did is a lovely
mother cook very well my brother bought
very connected to gastronomic business
because they loved eating and his
lifestyle but when I was teenager I was
complaining with my family because I
didn’t eat frozen food like all the
others I feel always different and I
don’t think that was something just
permeating with all of us constantly
eating our selves different from the
other they don’t understand
me I am the only one how can I make me
happy so there’s nothing strange with
deficit at the time my mother said to me
no way you cannot study chef your father
is a genetic engineer your big brother
has a postdoc in pharmaceutical
chemistry in in either in Cambridge my
second brother was studying medicine in
Naples I cannot be a cook forget it so
now you can think that they are really
bad they cut my dream not instead they
helped me a lot
they convinced me to study scientific
high school and with that culture I grow
hopped so much and I created the ground
to be a better professional and even a
better person I guess why I’m telling is
because we have to trust our loved one
okay already the life is so tough and we
need always to trust what they tell us
so I made my high school a great way
with top Mars it was a very good student
a little bit nerd I didn’t study too
much but I was a good student and then
in a while I forget to be a cook I was
booty mathematic and still very good we
number so you remember I told you I want
to be the tall guy just to take the
money that was lazy so I was doing
something easy for me it was number so I
start telecommunication engineering
I stayed University but I was upset I
started to be sad I started to be not a
good student I started to find some exum
I take 30 40 kilo that is still here to
remember me that time I start to beat
the press I started to be panic attack
I need psychotherapy and support from
hospital and at the time again
I trust my loved one my brother at that
time was full inside gastronomy business
as a Nabi and he know a lot of chef and
it reduced me this person this person
maybe is not anybody for you but in
Italy is a very important chef his name
is Egil’s currently Nicholas is my
professional father okay you can see
this man is completely crazy it was the
80s he is making surfing on induction
fire in the 80s was the first induction
fire this picture is a strong message
the message was technology is important
fantasy is important culture is
important okay and don’t mind
self-esteem is important well I call him
he told me cloud yo or of course the
classic good family boy that fail at
university and think that making a chef
is a good chance to save your life
so don’t me go and work for a
while in a restaurant and then one year
later call me if you still want to do
because nobody’s thinking cooking is a
very tough like all artisanal business
you have to put your hand inside it’s
physically tiring job I work one year
then 8 June 2006 Italy become world
champion in soccer football league the
day after I came and I say eh I was very
positive and self-esteem
it was world champion in football for
Italian is very important as yet or
Turkish one and I say I am still here
and he told me ok let’s come in my
restaurant and I stay eat eight months
in his kitchen
working 16 hour a day
without getting any money opposite I was
paying my social security to be there
but I was happy in that moment I didn’t
care all my friends University friend
Gnostic trend was means was
telling me are you an idiot
you are leaving University what are you
doing you are going in the kitchen they
are not paying you they’re abusing you
they are using you for me was absolutely
no sense I was understanding that I was
building my future this is a very
important thing how we can understand
that we are building our future I
understand when I was working there and
I was happy I didn’t feel at all the
16-hour in a row working I didn’t care I
was happy that I was learning consider
the first weeks I will just be limp at
8:00 on an apple and I was cleaning
dishes during the service but the 30
minute that I was passing with this man
was enough for me to continue to dream
and to build my future
this guy create more than 40 Michelin
star chef in Italy is one of the most
important teacher within some year later
this is when I already started to work
I want that pot that is gold during a
competition and this is a moment when in
a way I show how much he was satisfied
because he made a great job well after
that I had other working experience
someone very nice and his his clear
picture Luke did speak all this guy
right now are very successful chef
around the world especially the one on
the right the name is andreas Contini it
was just a sous chef at that time then
nobody knows what a femme but is for me
the
laughs I never work with is my idol
here we was in a restaurant of Bruno
Barbieri that is a multi Michelin star
chef and we was working as well 16 hour
a day we was getting very bad salary
okay no motivation the motivation were
just learning
we knew that we was building our future
and after this experience something
happened I feel that I was irradiated
this is a key point in our business
every business that we do doesn’t matter
kitchen in the business tailoring is
another medicine is another but there is
a point in every carrier that we fill
our self owner of our business after
these disputes I feel it after that I
had even other bad experience I was for
example working for Gordon Ramsay he
call me London in the three Michelin
star restaurant I go there for making a
trial and I didn’t like it so we always
need to feel as well if the place that
we are working is making us a better
person I didn’t feel that over there and
I left even it was maybe the great
opportunity of my career working with
one of the few most important chefs in
the world I need to tell just two more
things one is about any career in my
career I never look for gaining a
position the only point was to work in
art working art working hard and doing
what I like to do I was happy I am happy
I’m very happy someday is very tough
sometime I fight with my coworker with
eyeballs I’m not agreed doesn’t matter I
come back at all satisfied because I’m
making a job that for me it is easy
because it’s something that I always
feel in myself
and the second thing and is the methods
maybe for the younger one now being a
chef is very popular there is a lot of
universities that are open in gastronomy
and the position of the chef is changing
before will just somebody that was in
the back loli slowly we are going in the
front there is TV show or something like
this but this job is not made to became
famous
whoever choose these to become famous
make the wrong choice of their life how
many words famous chef in the world
five six and run say Jamie Oliver Alain
Ducasse okay but after these very few
were how many soccer player there are
famous I can start now I can finish
tomorrow
how many singular famous I can start
playing fish tomorrow because their job
is easy no not at all it’s very tough to
become a star in football you have to
Train like help but they are the
superstar
we are the person serve this star we are
working to make the people happy and
when the people are happy I am happy as
well can be an agree stick sentence but
I love when the people is happy because
of my dishes food for me is the most
fast consumption of art and being
Italian with all the art that we have
around it’s something that is natural
thank you everybody for listening
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