“I'm the culinary and creative consultant for The Water Club.” — Geoffrey Zakarian Quote

I'm the culinary and creative consultant for The Water Club.

Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.

I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.

Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

Undercook swordfish, and you get rubber. Overcook it, and you lose the fat and succulence.

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.

If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.

I'm a creative consultant, whatever that means.

When you become a consultant to a political party, your views are no longer objective. You do it at a cost.

Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.