Chicago restaurateur Billy Dec is the host of the Meal of Your Life podcast, where distinguished guests — from fellow renowned chefs to athletes and celebrities — discuss a defining meal.

Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago, talks to Dec about why Bon Appétit named Chicago the Restaurant City of the Year, losing a part of his finger when he worked in a kitchen, how arguing at the dinner table prepared him for parenthood and his favorite dining memory.

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Billy Dec is an Emmy Award winning television personality and actor, and the founder and CEO of Rockit Ranch, which operates seven restaurants, bars and nightclubs in Chicago. For the past three years, he has served on the White House Advisory Commission on Asian American & Pacific Islanders and the White House Bullying Prevention Task Force.