The Mac & Cheese Millionaire

Introduction

I am the world’s leading expert on macaroni and cheese. A bold claim, I realize—but it’s the God’s honest truth.

I have personally cooked more than 10,000 mac and cheese dishes. I have grated over one metric ton of cheese, boiled thousands of pounds of pasta, and whisked such vast amounts of cream sauce that I developed a wrist injury my doctor told me she has only seen in teenage boys with masturbatory addictions.

I wrote the global best-selling cookbook and definitive work on the topic, creatively titled The Mac and Cheese Cookbook. Amazon ranks it as the 65,739th most popular book of all time, placing it just above Tanya’s Comprehensive Guide to Feline Kidney Disease (#175,890), and just below Fifty Shades of Grey (#25,370).

I built a cult macaroni and cheese restaurant, Homeroom, which has sold millions of mac and cheeses over a decade in business. Homeroom’s mac and cheese is so popular that it has been featured everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to the Cooking Channel, and its financial performance puts it in the top 1 percent of restaurants nationwide. Put simply, no one has dedicated more of their life to this cheesy carb than I have.

You might be wondering, why the hell would anyone spend so much of their life focused on macaroni and cheese? (Or, if you’re really into mac, perhaps you are not wondering this.)

I went down the rabbit hole of dairy-filled obsession for the same reason most people do crazy things: for love.

Not for the romantic love of ...