Grant Achatz

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791 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Grant Achatz (award-winning chef) · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

And that was it.

That's all that mattered.

Yeah.

I wrote him a letter with my hand several times until finally he called me.

Oh, no kidding.

And I went down there for a tryout.

I was still in Grand Rapids.

I remember I wanted to eat at the restaurant before I tried out because I wanted to see what type of ingredients they had.

I wanted to look at the plateware.

And again, I was shocked.

I had this giant, hilariously over baggy, like JCPenney suit on.

I worked there for three days and it was a tryout and they offered me a job.

So I moved down.

Crowder's was intense in a way that wasn't in the service of what we were doing.

Uh-huh, uh-huh.

And I felt like it was getting in the way a bit.

Crowder was a master manipulator.

He would put right inside of your head and just pull strings.

It was unbelievable.

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