I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm going to Thank you. Terry Q Thomas on the show of the Wine and Spirits magazine.

Hello, how are you?

Good, thank you.

Thanks for having me today.

Nice to have you here.

So you went to culinary school originally and you were a Russian major? I was. I was. I think I did Russian just to make certain that what I really wanted to do was cook, but what I really did want to do was cook and I knew that from a very young

age. My mom was a great cook and she ran a catering business out of our home and always

let my sister and I help and so by the time I was 15 I'd gotten a job in a

professional kitchen working guard mauge and desserts and and sometimes grill which was awesome. and

sometimes grill which was awesome for a 15 year old and that started it every year from for the

next 10 years I worked in restaurants throughout high school throughout college and as soon as I

graduated I kind of freaked out what am I going to do with a Russian major I'm going to go to

culinary school and like three weeks later I went to CIA. By the time I got out of culinary school

though I was done, totally done working restaurants. I really I wanted to be in

the food world but I did not want to work the hours and be on my feet and such.

I wanted some other experience so I came down to the city, worked lots of other jobs,

worked for Jeffrey Steingarden Food Crit Critic at Vogue for a while.

What was I like?

Working for Jeffrey.

It was really hard and really great.

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