He said it's where "I found my culinary voice." He was able to scratch the Kentucky Derby from his bucket list - and while there he fell in love with Louisville and its Southern culture. He took a break to travel around the United States and visit places he'd only wondered about while growing up in New York. A restaurant he opened in lower Manhattan folded after the terrorist attacks of Sept. He attended culinary school after graduation from New York University but dropped out after a week. Lee started working in restaurants when he was 14 years old. But the menu has been finalized, Lee said, practically breathing a sigh of relief during Thursday's telephone interview. The White House will be releasing those details on Monday. The 50-year-old husband and father couldn't say what's on the menu. "I've been on 'Top Chef,' where I've had to cook for some very high-powered chefs who were critiquing my food, and this was probably more pressure than the TV show," Lee said of having the first lady be the judge of his kitchen creations.
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