• Kim Kardashian and her sister, Khloe, are safe after the vehicle they were in Saturday slid off a Montana road and into a ditch. Montana Highway Patrol Capt. Mark Wilfore said the accident occurred before noon on a highway between Bozeman and Belgrade, home to Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport. Wilfore said he did not know the sisters' destination. Wilfore said a third person in the vehicle was not hurt and was not identified. There was no damage to the vehicle, which was pulled from a ditch and driven away. He said no citations were issued. The accident occurred when the GMC Yukon being driven by Khloe Kardashian hit a patch of black ice and slid off the side of a two-lane road.
• Geoffrey Zakarian knows the odds. He knows all too well that the chances of succeeding in the restaurant world are so remote as to be almost comical. Of course, the Food Network star and much-lauded chef also has beaten those odds. Multiple times. But he says his losses have built him as much as his victories. "You cannot enter this business without having those [failures]," he said Friday during an interview at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. "It's not possible to not get beaten up a bit, and I think it adds to you." Zakarian got his start working for some of the industry's top names, and later helped revolutionize the notion of chic hotel restaurants. But there were failures, too, including a bankruptcy and a short-lived food program for the Gap and Old Navy. "You open 10 restaurants and three might not work. That's just the way it is," he said. These days, he has several restaurants, including The Lambs Club in New York City, is a regular judge on Food Network's Chopped and a host of the network's chatty The Kitchen. But the failures have taught him to make smart contingency plans and rely more on his instincts. "There are a lot of seductive business opportunities that come along and you're like, 'Wow, this is going to be amazing.' And then you're like, 'Hmm... Red flag,'" said Zakarian, who recently helped re-launch the iconic Palm Court at The Plaza hotel. "Now in my life, the red flag comes up a lot. When I listen to my gut, I do well." For now, he's enjoying his ride on The Kitchen. "What I don't take seriously is that this will continue, because this might not continue and it probably won't," he said. "So I wake up with that in my mind and I guard against it."
A Section on 02/22/2015