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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.
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