Roux was a great adventure, and I am proud of my first baby. It was a critical success, and a financial disaster.

It occurred to me that learning to cook, learning an instrument and becoming fluent in a foreign language were all very similar.

Take for instance my first substack post, in it I barely mentioned the restaurant, almost exclusively talking about myself. The ironic part is that if it weren’t for the restaurant there would be no reason for me to be writing this at all. So selfish Pat. Sooo selfish.

They say to achieve a dream, you have to visualize what success looks like…