please welcome the great tom colicchio!y: one of the most respected chefs in america. thanks for being on the show. great to meet you. >> likewise. >> ronny: great person as well. your book, cookbook and memoir. you've managed to trick us into reading about your story in between -- you kind of hide it in between these recipes here. very -- it is well written. i encourage everyone to go read it. for a chef, the stereotype is, everyone is very angry but you write this with so much love. >> [laughs] >> ronny: what is the real you? is it this? >> it's this, yeah. >> ronny: i don't know enough about cooking at all but with comedy, there is a certain amount of toxicity that you need to endure to get good at this, you know? so do you feel the same way with cooking? i guess, what would you say to all these woke sissies who are complaining about being mistreated in the kitchen? like, really? are you like, tough enough or are you like -- >> not anymore. we don't do that anymore. we can't do that. things have changed. when i was comin

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and just this week i had tom colicchio as our guest talking about our food insecurity system and whatwe should be doing. but when it comes to school lunches, children going hungry is not just about the the pain that child feels. it lowers their likelihood of being able to turn hungry. children cannot learn to think about how hungry you get when you're 5 minutes away from lunch. imagine being a six year old who relies on school lunch as maybe your only meal of the day, but you also have families that are generally economically secure but are on that edge. we are so used to thinking that there is a racial or economic demography that is relegated to certain parts. our community. hunger exists every and so our responsibility is one to solve the immediate issue of hunger, school hunger. and i encourage folks at the end of the book, we have a list of resources of feed feeding america and no child hungry are both amazing organizations. local food banks are incredibly supportive and important. but you need to ask what's the policy? your school system? you know, we presume that there is univer