"If you're a young chef who wants his own place, where else are you going to go?"
Every talented young chef we met mentioned another "just as good."
One dish in particular has been adopted by the city's young chefs.
Tasting it, I suddenly remembered how young the chef is.
Those young chefs believed the press, and now they're not around.
Or that no promising young chefs were left in Manhattan.
"I have a problem with certain young American chefs who want to run before they can walk," he said.
I also brought in two very talented young chefs and let them do their thing.
"A lot of younger chefs here just don't have any idea how to cook it."
Throughout her career, she was a mentor to young chefs.