He's great. If you have the time, his book
The Apprentice is a lot of fun. It has that ghostwritten taste to it, but the stories are charming and his personality shines through. He talks of meeting a young Julia Child, doing the restaurant grind until his mid-30s, Old World training leading to New World successes, etc etc. One of my favorite anecdotes, which I always thought of when cooks I worked with would moan about customers arriving ten minutes before we closed, was of him being
literally roused from bed to cook for some late-night diners in the hotel he lived/apprenticed in as a kid.