It’s classic has been since 1929, survived five major earthquakes, as well as guests like Jim Morrison, John Belushi, Hunter S. “I am seriously loyal to, and enthusiastic about, the few hotels in the world that I genuinely love, and I love no hotel more than Chateau Marmont. I love the palm trees, the strip malls, the Pacific Ocean, the whole quirky, straight-out-of-a-million-movies thing.” There is no place like it: Montana.” Los Angeles, California It’s one of the most beautiful places on earth. This is the landscape that generations of dreamers, despots, adventurers, explorers, crackpots, and heroes fought and died for. Next time you turn off a news-cycle filled with shouting bobbleheads, convinced that America is devolving into a moronic inferno, questioning the greatness of your nation: maybe you should come here. Where to hunt, to fish, to sleep under that big sky aren’t activities, but a way of life. “Some people must live in great spaces, where the sky goes on forever. Oh, Chicago, you are indeed a wonderful, wonderful town.” Livingston, Montana “Done right, you drag your ass sleepily off to the airport, chin smeared with the grease from an Italian beef sandwich, belching mustard from last night’s red hot, dimly trying to remember to whom you must apologize for your previous misadventures. This is the city without an inferiority complex.” It’s one cultural Mount Everest after another. This is one of the truly most awesome cities in the world. It’s big, it’s outgoing, it’s tough, it’s opinionated, and everybody has got a story. Other places have to measure themselves against it. “Chicago doesn’t ever have to measure itself against any other city. A guy who is redefining not just what southern cooking is, was, and can be, but American cooking as a whole.” Chicago, Illinois

“It took me a little time to discover the ferocious intellect, the inquiring nature, the uniquely focused and purposeful talent of the man - without a doubt, one of America’s most important chefs.

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