Eleven Madison Park: Daniel Humm

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Guy Raz | Wondery

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Daniel Humm dropped out of school at 14 to become a competitive cyclist, and supported himself by cutting vegetables and making soup stock at fine restaurants in Switzerland. When he eventually realized he'd never become a world-class cyclist, he pivoted to the equally competitive world of fine dining, and soon became a rising young chef in Switzerland, and then San Francisco. In 2006, he was wooed to New York to re-imagine the restaurant Eleven Madison Park, and began drawing raves for his painterly presentations of duck, foie gras, and suckling pig. The restaurant was recognized in 2017 as the world's best, but was forced to shut down during the pandemic. When it reopens in June, it will generate a new buzz in gastronomy: this time by revamping its menu to be entirely plant-based.

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0:10.0	What does that mean?
0:14.0	What does the recession mean for a restaurant like Eleven Medicine Park at that time?
0:18.8	For us it hit us really hard.
0:21.0	We tried to operate at a four-star level like we had so many meetings where we...
0:29.9	We said, hey, we lost money like huge amounts.
0:33.9	I mean, we had nights where we had four guests in the restaurant.
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0:52.9	I'm Guy Raaz and on today's show, How Daniel Hume, dropped out of school at age 14,
1:00.9	and went on to become the head chef and owner of the top ranked restaurant in the world.
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