This week on Chef’s Story, host Dorothy Cann Hamilton travels to San Francisco to interview chef Daniel Patterson about his restaurant: Coi, and his new book: Coi: Stories and Recipes. Dorothy and Daniel got into such an interesting conversation that we had to split it up into two segments! So stay tuned for next week’s continuation of this thrilling episode. This program has been sponsored by Fairway Market.

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“My grandmother had this incredibly ability to show emotion through food.” [13:50]


“I was used to people who had to work for a living, and that’s what I liked. Being in a professional kitchen is very working class.” [20:50]


“In order to grow you need to risk, and in order to risk you need to fail.” [36:00]


—Daniel Patterson on Chef’s Story