The Atlantic Interview: Mike Solomonov

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Israeli chef Mike Solomonov recently won the James Beard Award for outstanding chef. He created the restaurant Zahav in Philadelphia, built a food empire, and expertly hid a drug addiction from everyone in his life. He talks with Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic's editor in chief, about what he felt when his brother was killed, and how the tragedy first fueled and then helped him fight his addiction. Now in a long recovery, he cooks Israeli food as a kind of cultural mission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.6	Welcome to the Atlantic interview. My guest is Mike Solomanoff.
0:39.0	He's the greatest restaurateur.
0:41.5	Do you pronounce restaurant tour?
0:42.8	I think so.
0:43.8	I think some people say you are like restaurant tier.
0:46.3	Who says that?
0:47.3	I don't know.
0:48.3	Not in Philadelphia, they don't.
0:49.3	You're an impresario of restaurants in Philadelphia.
0:52.3	He's the James Beard Award winner, which means you're the best chef in America.
0:58.4	Yeah.
0:59.6	I mean, not really.
1:00.4	Just own it.
1:01.0	That's what they say.
1:02.0	Yeah.
1:02.3	The first time in Israeli has won.
1:04.3	First time in Israeli has won.
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