Max Pearson
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1,342 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
Max Pearson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there was this TV crew.
And I asked them why they were here and for.
And they said, well, there is this article that was published in The New Yorker by your chef.
We would like to interview him.
And who they were interviewing was a man in his 40s called Anthony Bourdain.
And so I rushed to the kitchen and told Tony about this.
And he said, oh, yeah, I didn't expect anyone to come here.
And I'm so sorry.
I didn't expect it to be published.
And then he went on with his interview and I rushed to get a New Yorker issue published.
Tony, as he was often known, had spent months trying to get this piece published, but with no success.
So he sent it to the magazine unsolicited.
So I was stunned that he had, A, written the piece, B, that it was such a great piece, and C, that it got published in the New Yorker.
Within hours, the phone was off the hook.
People were just calling in and wanting to come to that restaurant.
It all changed when Tony published that piece.
In 1999, the top restaurants in the US and Europe were still in the era of fine dining.
The restaurant experience was always very, you know, codified.
So, for example, you would go to a French restaurant
And you would expect the staff to be stiff and haughty and the chef being some kind of godlike creature and talking down to you because you asked for something different than what the menu offered.
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