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Being a chef wasn’t just Floyd Cardoz’s job — it was his passion. “I love being a chef and would not do anything else in my life,” he told Union Square Hospitality Group in 2013. He brought up love again when discussing his advice for aspiring chefs, explaining, “My philosophy in life is good food and cooking is not only how good the food tastes and looks, but also how good it makes you feel cooking it and how good the guest feels eating it. Always cook with passion and with love.”
Of course, Cardoz had a life outside of his profession. “I enjoy cooking, baseball and football (watching that is),” he told the company. “I also love to garden and my passion is vegetable gardening. I love to travel. I enjoy the process of seeing peoples’ cultures and enjoying their food. I also try and get in some fishing time as when I’m close to the water, it reminds me of my time growing up in Bombay.”
The chef was also passionate about his wife, Barkha. “Mentally we were on the same level,” Cardoz shared during an interview with radio show Love Bites in 2017. “We connected on a lot of things. We were two foreigners in a strange land, who had come as immigrants with nothing in our pockets … we were going through the same things at the same time.”
Written by: Nicki
