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Nick DiGiovanni

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1. “I think my parents were great in this sense that they especially encouraged us to be well-rounded, try to be a student athlete or whether it was an instrument or whatever. But like you sort of hinted at, cooking was always there no matter what was happening around me. And in trying to figure out what I wanted to do, I think especially when that crossroads came in college, when you have to start deciding what do you want to be when you grow up, the question becomes real. And then that's when I look to food and just said, food's the thing that I love the most. And I want to do something in the food world.”

   2023-01-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Osmo Salt: Nick DiGiovanni · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I was the only sort of younger kid there, and the rest of the people were, I don't know, I want to say in their 50s. So, yeah, I wanted to go there and learn more formal training because the routes that you can take when it comes to the food world are, you know, you can either go to culinary school. Take out a huge loan and do that, or you can go to restaurants and get paid right away and hope that it kind of pays off even more from the learning experience in restaurants. So I did that in part as a test. Do I want to go to culinary school or do I want to jump straight into restaurants and learn that way?”

   2023-01-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Osmo Salt: Nick DiGiovanni · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “Well, yeah, but I will also say growing up with three younger brothers you have to play every sport, so I think the only sport that I didn't get into was football, but I played lacrosse, I played hockey, ice hockey, I mean, I literally I can do any sport in the ocean.”

   2023-01-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Osmo Salt: Nick DiGiovanni · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

4. “I think every kid at some point helps their parents make pancakes. But for some reason, and I couldn't really tell you why, I started to play with the pancakes, so I'd put lemon zests in there and I'd put orange zests and, you know, orange and chocolate chips. And so I remember experimenting a lot with simple stuff at first like pancakes. And then I was doing this in part, I'm sure, because I was watching my grandmother and my great-grandmother and all of them cook. So, you know, I was very impressionable, I guess, when it came to food and cooking, and I just soaked it all in and wanted to do it myself.”

   2023-01-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Osmo Salt: Nick DiGiovanni · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT