I Had A Fierce Curiosity

When I Want To Kick It Up, I Like To Add Hardwood Chips Or Chunks To The Grill; It Adds Bold Smoky Flavors. The Most Common Woods Are Hickory And Mesquite, But You Can Find Alder, Apple, Cherry And, My Personal Favorite, Pecan.

My Favorite Aspen Memory Is Saving An Upside-down Cake That Had Exploded From The High Altitude.

My Family... Always Had The Value Of The Family Table And These Cultural Influences Of Growing Up.

Home Base Is The Support System Where We Have A Culinary Team, My Own Writers Because Of The Shows And The Books And Stuff, We Have A Culinary Team Of About Six People. Marketing, Public Relations, Accounting And All That Sort Of Stuff.

The World Has Changed, And It's Almost Been 11 Years. I Have 975 Employees. I Have Six Restaurants. We Haven't Opened Any New Ones In Almost Three Years.