"But then I gotta learn how to smoke," he said with an almost rolling lift of his eyebrows.

"If that's what it takes to lock in that three times a week in, I'm more than happy to figure it out. Maybe all you needed was to be around someone who enjoyed real food. Not the 5 course of tiny plates I saw at that gala."

He felt he made food less pretentious. It was a good thing.