eric repair, marcus samuelsson, wily dufresne, and tom akins, chef and owner of tom akins restaurant. i am pleased to have them here. congratulations. this is this book is getting good reviews these are the questions: what would be your last meal on earth? what would you drink with the meal? would there be music? and who would be your companions? >> exactly. and people like marcus were salmon, salmon, salmon. so i thought what i am i going to do? how am i going to photograph him? i know, he's gorgeous, i'm going wrap imup in salmon. (laughter) >> keep it simple. >> rose: but where did the idea comele from for you? >> well, the idea came -- i photograph many different types of people: politicians, authors, writers, but i have the most fun with chefs. they were willing to do anything and as i photographed them -- (laughter) >> and she means everything! (laughter) >> and as i started to photograph them more and more i realized they were open to anything and i started notice how they eat and they don't necessarily eat the food that they present in the kitchen. >> rose: they don't eat fanc

are they so obtuse, to quote andy dufresne when he quizzes the warden, that they can't see this?nd, yes, i'm talking about both sides. it's driving me crazy. how do i know that things would be so great if we could only get beyond the stupid politically created crisis? let's go over the reasons. first, in terms of how well we could be doing, think about this. the moribund, ossified and barely capitalist continent that is europe has settled down into some sort of permanent no-growth mode and yet almost every one of the stock markets is doing better than ours. come on, washington, that's ridiculous. how can the markets in switzerland, netherlands, sweden, france, germany do better than us? how is that possible? because of you, washington. it's because of you. we've been kept back all because of you. second, before our politicians stepped in with their intransigence and anger, we were about to have an explosion in earnings. retail was as strong as i've seen it in a decade, autos back incredibly robust. and that's just the beginning. because all the pent up demand. we're running short