Chicago magazine

Rick Bayless

▪ For the first seven years that Frontera Grill and Topolobampo were open, I worked the line every night. It’s my favorite thing to do. You get into this wonderful flow that people talk about, when all of a sudden time stands still.

▪ It used to bring me down for days. Total funk. A lot of self-help books

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