I am also a cook. I know that I own many restaurants and employ many cooks, but what THEY cook are my recipes! Having a young family to support when I was in my teens, I had to forget football (my first love) and decide how best to support my family.I have always enjoyed food -- my size attests to that! -- and I come from a family (on both sides) of Italians who, like me, love to cook. And to eat. So the next best thing to football seemed to become a chef.I attended Chef School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and cooked for a short while in my hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin. My uncle, Rocky Costanzo, owned "Rocky's Hideaway" in Phoenix, Arizona and in 1959 he offered me a position as chef in his restaurant. I moved to Phoenix and have lived there ever since.Maybe there is something to the idea that "fate leads the way".. because my uncle became very ill and passed away in 1973. He and Bob Woolley had been planning a restaurant in Bob's Granada Royale Homotel Embassy Suite at 24th Street and Thomas in Phoenix and, with the loss of Rocky, Bob approached me.And the rest is history...I have many people to thank for my success and the list could take up many pages. I've only been 'allotted' one page... and I do want to mention a few people, including the many friends I have made doing my "Cooking with Gregory" cooking classes. I began "Cooking with Gregory" for organizations wishing to raise money for charity and I truly enjoy doing these classes. I try not to turn down any requests to do them.I cannot forget to thank Rose Mofford, one of my dearest friends. And Sherman Goodrich, for his creativity and friendship (he does the "Little Guy" caricatures)... and Bob Woolley for the many good times and for his support. And of course for the love and dedication of my children.. Rick and Jean, and their families without whom this company would not exist.