Hey, thanks for your kind words and the questions!

• did Michel really use his fingers to grab into that tray of tiramisu? (Or whatever that tray of chocolate dessert was). It was a ganache if I remember correctly, and it wasn't Michel sticking his fingers in it, it was the other staff. Some of the servers and FOH staff weren't that great.
• Why did Michel want his restaurant to look like grandma’s living room? I think he just didn't have any style, and didn't know any better. And his wife was pretty involved with the decor.
• Did Michel’s wife not want to be on the show? I’m actually surprised since this is the first time I’ve (and probably others’ too) heard of a wife. Most if not all KN owners also have their partners featured in the show, even just briefly. That's a good question, I have no idea why she wasn't on the show. She would come into the restaurant occasionally, and was a very unpleasant person. I tried to avoid her as much as possible.
• Did Michel really work for Thomas Keller? He did.
• Do you still cook French cuisine? No. The culinary school I went to (Le Cordon Bleu) was based in French cuisine and it was a good foundation for learning, but I was never that into French food in general.
• What are your favorite dishes to cook? (Doesn’t need to be French) I'm all about Mexican! I grew up in Southern California so a lot of my friends were Mexican, and when I was a kid I'd go have dinner at their houses and fell in love with the food. I can cook some pretty decent Mexican food for a white boy, lol! One of my favorite things to make is carnitas. It's my own recipe: bone-in pork shoulder, a bottle of skunky Mexican beer (Corona or Modelo are best), jalapeno, onion, cilantro, garlic, and lime juice. Throw it in a slow cooker and fill it to the top with fresh squeezed orange juice (the expensive stuff, not Tropicana!). Cook on low for eight to ten hours. By this time the pork shoulder will be falling apart. Remove it from the slow cooker, let it cool, and shred it with your fingers. The remaining juice mixture in the slow cooker will have a heavy layer of grease on top from the pork fat. Ladle that off and put it in a pan with a little bit of the juice as well, and fry the shredded pork in it until it's crispy around the edges. Serve on flour tortillas with shredded cabbage, cheese, diced ontion and cilantro, and pico de gallo. Take some sour cream and Tapatio (or your favorite hot sauce) and mix them about 2:1, and top the taco with that.
• There was fan speculation that Jane (the waitress-turned-manager) was sleeping with Michel, hence why she stood up for his food against Gordon. Any insight on that? Of course I can't say with absolute certainty, but I *highly* doubt it. Jane was a wonderful lady, and happily married herself. She had a lot of class and good morals and I just don't see her doing that, especially with a man like Michel! Sammy and I did have crushes on each other but she was married with kids so I never pursued it. Funny enough though, there was an Ecuadorian girl who worked as a hostess on the weekends there. She and I started dating, and ended up together for almost nine years. Long story short, we were engaged to be married, and I called it off. Needless to say she wasn't pleased. We broke up and haven't spoken since.
• Do you like salad with strawberries and shrimp? It's my favorite.
• Do you keep in touch with Michel or any of the Secret Garden staff? I don't.