Much as he loved cooking, he still struggled in the kitchen. Ferguson was eager to learn from Tanous, a graduate of New York’s prestigious Institute of Culinary Education, an alum of Saveur magazine’s test kitchen and a seasoned recipe developer. “Like, ‘I have my six or eight people that I really love.’ Julie snuck in like Indiana Jones, rolling herself into a little ball, getting in before the gate closed on no more friends.” “I do think there’s a point in your life when you become a certain age and you just stop taking on new friends because it’s too much work,” he says.
“It was like love at first sight, an instant connection,” she says.įerguson wasn’t necessarily looking for a new pal, but Tanous was hard to resist.
