Think about the food you get at Bond St and Moomba. You have to go to more than 150 good restaurants for the quality to go really down. I don't even think Paris has that. I mean even heat and also that gives to flexibility so that you can do anything from steaming to cooking a pizza in one oven. At ABC Carpets and Chelsea Baskets at the Chelsea Market in New York.
Swedes have a lot of pride in their culture.
Your involvement in the cultural center shows an appreciation of your cuisine as art. The culture center asked us to do the restaurant for the Scandinavian House. If you do quality work it will always come back in a positive way, and you can see this in other chefs. For example Daniel, all of his partnerships are with solid people. I am really impressed with how people can dress-down but still do quality, like Mercer Kitchen, and it's still fun.