04The Notebook · Inspiration
The people, places
and moments behind the food.
Every dish starts somewhere. A customer who ordered the same plate for years, a conversation during service, someone who first showed Paul an ingredient, a mistake that turned into a method. These are the stories of where the ideas come from, from his past and his present.
How a story is kept
Where did
the idea come from?
A story does not have to involve a famous name or a glamorous place to matter. Each one is kept simply, and pointed at whatever it led to.
Where stories come from
Restaurants worked in · Clients and regulars · Conversations at the table · Chefs and cooks · Suppliers, markets and producers · Friends and family · Travel · Ingredients discovered somewhere · Meals remembered years later · Mistakes and unexpected moments · Food traditions met through other cultures
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Who, where or when
A person, a place or a moment. It need not be famous or far away.
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The story
What happened, in Paul's words.
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What it changed
Where the idea came from, and what it became: an ingredient understood differently, a sketch, a dish.
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Related
The ingredient, sketch, experiment or recipe it led to, where those records exist.
The stories
The first stories are Paul's to tell. They will appear here as he writes them, one person, place or moment at a time.