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"Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on."
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"My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes."

"French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way."

"I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking."

"Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore."

"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."
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