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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

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What did you think of New York? Was it overwhelming to you? Did you think of it when you got there?

It looked like a very strange place. This New York that you see in movies like Was Gotham, where this mook is coming in a vertical night from every street.

So I had like 50 bucks in my pocket. I was going to 50th street between Lexington and 3rd, and the driver dropped me in 193 between 8th and 9th.

So had to get to the restaurant? I'm walking and walking.

I arrived very late and were very upset with me. It took me like almost two hours to make it there.

From NPR, it's how I built this. A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Raaz and on today's show, How Hosea and Dress went from tending the fire at his father's cookouts to building a restaurant empire, and eventually changing the way Americans eat out.

So over the past 10 or 15 years, you might have noticed a trend at restaurants all across the US, where you get there and the waiter says,

Hey, here's how it works. Everybody orders one or two or three plates, and you all share it family style.

And you get some octopus or some shrimp floating in olive oil and some lamb or whatever, and everybody eats it.

Well, the person who might be most responsible for that trend is the Spanish celebrity chef, Hosea and Dress. He basically started the small plates movement in the US.

And his company Think Food Group now has 25 restaurants across the country in places like L.A., Miami, Vegas, and here in Washington, D.C.

Anyway, Hosea grew up in Barcelona, and even when he was a kid, he was fascinated with food.

My father probably is the one that helped me to understand the meaning of being a cook.

My father will always cook on Sundays for families, for friends, and he will make a big payah that traditional Spanish rice.

And he will never let me cook. He will always put me in charge of making the fire. He will send me to the forest to pick up the wood.

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