Legend has it that back in the Roaring Twenties when 1, 200 people would attend nightly dinner dances into the wee hours of the night, then descend on the coffee shop for late breakfast, one asked executive chef Fred Schmidt to create something different.

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Finally I want to thank Forbes.com for this wonderful opportunity and my editor, Fred Allen, for seeing something in me.

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