Kitchen Confidential (2000)
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“Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably.”
The Nasty Bits (2006)
“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Context: Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold. Oh, I'll accommodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine. (p. 70).
“You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.”
Medium Raw (2010)
Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
A Cook's Tour (2001)
Source: A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.”
Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Medium Raw (2010)
Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
The Nasty Bits (2006)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
No Reservations - Machu Picchu
Context: It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook