What It's Like to Win Iron Chef America

The producers saw a feature we had in Gourmet about a year ago, and called me at the restaurant out of the blue a few weeks later. At first, I thought it was one of my friends pranking me, but once I got online and looked at the staff directory, I realized it was legit. I called my wife and Brook Smith, my business partner, and told them. We thought, “This is freaking awesome!” Then,...