chef kevin adey, welcome to "the dish." >> thank you. >> glad to have you here. >> my pleasure. >> tell> rye loaf and a cawley flower salad. >> we must ask you about the drink. >> the drink is rye and ginger. it's the bushwick buck with a little mary she noe and topped off with soda. it's delicious. >> it's fantastic. >> you started out initially wanting to be a teacher, is that true? >> that's true. my old man was a teacher. >> what did he teach? >> he taught history. that's where i got my love of history from. it ended up not being the true love of my life, so into the kitchen i went. >> where does this love of cooking come from for you? >> mostly growing up in an italian family, you know, watching my great aunts and grandmother cook, you know, from a very young age, watching toma bread and pasta, you know, roast peppers, just kind of fell in love with it then. >> by the time you got to college, you were cooking intensely. >> in college, those years, i worked at -- on campus dining, so it was a little less intense. >> not fine dining. >> not fine dining. i worked in place where the kn

. >>> this morning on "the dish," chef kevin adey born in upstate new york started his career in floridakitchen team at one of the most acclaimed restaurants. later he headed to the borough of brooklyn. >> then in 2015 he and his wife opened a restaurant in bushwick focusing on house made pastas and focused ingredients including organic ingredients. the comfortable local place, it's still earned notice winning a coveted michelin star shortly chef kevin adey, welcome to "the dish." >> thank you. >> glad to have you here. >> my pleasure. >> tell me what you have on the table? >> rye loaf and a cawley flower salad. >> we must ask you about the drink. >> the drink is rye and ginger. it's the bushwick buck with a little mary she noe and topped off with soda. it's delicious. >> it's fantastic. >> you started out initially wanting to be a teacher, is that true? >> that's true. my old man was a teacher. >> what did he teach? >> he taught history. that's where i got my love of history from. it ended up not being the true love of my life, so into the kitchen i went. >> where does this love of cook