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"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."

"Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store."

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

"I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel."

"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."

"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession."

"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight."
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"You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good."

"Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful."

"A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion."

"I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you."

"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."

"The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined."

"I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed."

"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything."
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