Celebrity Chef Richard Blais is a busy man, but I was able to catch up with him about his popular chicken eatery, The Crack Shack. What began as a restaurant in Little Italy San Diego, is now expanding to the beach city of Encinitas in North County. “It is food you crave,” Blais says. “Fried chicken and eggs made with ingredients that a Michelin star restaurant would use; Jidori chicken, local produce, Bread & Cie, and many other southern California farms and purveyors.”