Work Clean (35 page)

Lucian Davis

Marc Djozlija

Sarah Donnegan

Zoe Dries

Wylie Dufresne

Josh Eden

Mark Erickson

Gerard Fischetti

Michael Gibney

Gary Giudice

Marcus Gleadow-Ware

Melissa Gray

Michael Guerriero

Jawed Halepota

Rob Halpern

Dorothy Cann Hamilton

Ronald Hayes

Sam Henderson

Avi Hoffer

Ryan Hunter

Joel Javier

Charlene Johnson-Hadley

Liam Kamp

Thomas Keller

Ryan Kemp

Andrew Kochan

Shuichi Kotani

Keith Krajewski

Tim Lanza

Matthew Lightner

Toni Linen

Dwayne LiPuma

Malcolm Livingston

Arbil Lopez

Elise Macur

Noah Marion

David McCue

Randy McNamara

Sam Mendes

Misel Mendoza

Kathleen Merget

Rossi Morillo

Sara Moulton

Chris Muller

Rahmie Munther

Ayanna-Tamar Mutaz

Francois Nadon

Kaitlyn Ngo

Kelly O'Connor

Ronald Ohler

Charlie Palmer

Michael Pardus

Ryan Pascullo

David Pasternack

Jacques Pépin

Alexander Phillips

Brian Plant

Alfred Portale

Larissa Raphael

Eric Ripert

Katie Ritter

Michael Ruhlman

Scott Samuel

Marcus Samuelsson

Yukihiro Sato

Ralph Scamardella

Andi Sciacca

Jason Sheehan

Reggie Soang

Andres Soltner

Fritz Sonnenschmidt

Angelo Sosa

Rudy Speckamp

Masa Takayama

Erica Tatham

William Telepan

Alexandra Tibbats

Amy Trubek

Alyston Upshaw

Tom Vaccaro

Patrice Vassell

Howie Velie

Natasha Veloso

Mark Viloria

David Vinjamuri

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Melissa Walnock

Ian Whalley

Jarobi White

Jordan Williams

Sang Yoon

Jimi Yui

The above list does not include the kitchen staff and students, too numerous to mention here, with whom I had dozens of more casual conversations.

The following nonculinarians helped me with their observations about workplace organization: Andrea Duncan Mao, Tori Horowitz, Jozen Cummings, Mary Pryor, Mark Brodie, and Rachel Sullivan.

Special thanks to Dr. Joseph LeDoux for his generous clarification of many neurological issues related to human learning.

Full endnotes and sourcing for
Work Clean
are available online at
workclean.com/endnotes
.

GRATITUDE

To the people who helped me conceive and build this book before the first words were written: Larry Lieberman, Sara Moulton, David Dunton, Harvey Klinger. To Jen Levesque, Mollie Thomas, Mary Ann Naples, Yelena Gitlin Nesbit, Hope Clarke, Chris Gaugler, Gail Gonzales, Bob Niegowski, Jean Lee, and the entire team at Rodale. To Jeff Levine at the CIA, who was with me every step of the way; and to Tim Ryan, Michael Sperling, and the faculty, staff and students of the CIA. To Dorothy Cann Hamilton and the ICC. To Michael Ruhlman for his example and encouragement. To the folks who opened doors: Chloe Mata Crane, Jeannette Park, Margarita Sullivan, Nancy Aranson, Kimberly Blanchot, Jaime Caldwell, Jetty-Jane Connor, Lynne Estes, Irene Hamburger, Jacqueline Hensel, Stacy Himes, Benjamin Kemper, Michelle Lipa, Ron Longe, Dana Meeks, Griffin Parker, Liz Pierson, Jessica Rosen, Meghan Sherrill, Lina Varriale, Christa Weaving, Richard Kashida, and Steven Charron. To Dr. Ruth Beitler and Major Erin Hadlock at West Point. To Tom Cole, Nina Gregory, April Fulton, Maanvi Singh, and Frannie Kelley at NPR. To those who provided help and feedback: Marshall Malin, David Tischman, Christian Moerk, Milind Shah, John Mietus, Jon Smith, Phonte Coleman, Marc Gerald, T-Love, Tamara Palmer, Gabriel Tolliver, Charlie Stettler, Jarobi White and Kamilah Rouse. To my NYU colleagues at the Clive Davis Institute: Jeff Rabhan, Nick Sansano, Jason King, Jeff Peretz, Jim Anderson, Bob Christgau, Bob Power, Errol Kolosine, Lauren Davis, Michael McCoy, Nora York, Matthew Morrison, Brianne Powell Hayes, Nikki Mirasola, Alan Watson, Chelsea Falato, Marat Berenstein, Ashley Kahn, Vivien Goldman, Harry Weinger and our incredible students. Thanks to Allyson
Green, Sheril Antonio, and Dan O'Sullivan. To my colleagues on VH1's
The Breaks
: Maggie Malina, Bill Flanagan, Seith Mann, Darren Goldberg, Gary Guidice; to Jason Goldberg; to Doug Herzog, Chris McCarthy and Amy Doyle; and to our incredible cast. To Laurie Pozmantier and John Buzzetti, Jake Stein and Scott Prisand. To my crew of creatives who strengthened me with their support for this book, and the last: Joe Schloss, Jay Smooth, Jeff Chang, Adam Mansbach, Sophia Chang, Joan Morgan, Miri Park, Oliver Wang, Elizabeth Mendez Berry, Shawn Setaro, Brian Coleman, Adisa Banjoko, Aliya S. King, Erik Parker, Elliot Wilson, Jerry Barrow, Michael Berrin, Dvora Myers, Chris Faraone, Stephen Henderson, Michaelangelo Matos. To my chefs: Sylvester Burke, Ophelia Barnes, Phillips Peters, Bill Stephney, Bill Adler, Cory Robbins, Tom Silverman, Manny Bella, Rick Rubin, Russell Simmons, Forest Whitaker, Jim Biederman, Jesse Collins, Ryan Dadd, Stephen Murray, Michelle Kerrigan, Nat Robinson, Mel Klein, Kim Nauer, Sam Freedman, June Cross, David Blum, Julie Hartenstein, Rich Lieby, Josh du Lac, Jonathan Shecter, Joe Boskin, Floyd Barbour, Hubert Walters, Adelaide Gulliver, Murray Levin, Howard Zinn, Jim Curtan, Santokh and Suraj Khalsa, Gurmukh and Gurushabd Khalsa, Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa, Kartar Khalsa, Siri Ved and Gurujodha Khalsa, and Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji. To the friends who have kept me and my wife afloat and happy, and to our parents and our wonderful, loving extended family. To Wendy S. Walters: best wife, best editor, best confidante and best friend. And to our son Isaac, who brings both a healthy mess and a divine order to our lives.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dan Charnas is an award-winning culture, lifestyle, and business writer. Recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for Arts Journalism, his first book,
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
, was called “a classic of music-business dirt digging as well as a kind of pulp epic” by
Rolling Stone
. He lives in New York City. For more tips, tools, and resources on working clean, visit
WorkClean.com
.