Sirio Maccioni
Sirio Maccioni
Sirio Maccioniis a restaurateur and author. Maccioni was featured in Le Cirque: A Table In Heaven, a 2007 American documentary film...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionChef
CountryItaly
cruise glamorous waiter
It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.
food good lives oil
I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.
good says taste
The blueberry-soy weight-loss smoothies my son makes for me taste terrible, but my doctor says they're good for me.
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I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.
believe happiness tomorrow
I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.
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I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables.
cooking french home italian sexy touch women
No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, very sexy - but they don't like to cook.
time
One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.
home people york
Le Cirque is strictly New York people. New York people don't eat at home; New York people go out.
nightmares wake
I really hate to get old. I don't talk about it much. And sometimes at night I wake up and I have nightmares that I know how old I am.
believe
I get along with everybody because I don't believe anybody.
children
If you don't have a pool in Las Vegas, you have to put your children in the icebox.
beginning ladies lunch power
In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed.
eat great home
When I want to really eat great, I eat at home when my wife cooks.