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"My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories."
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"Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism."
"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."
"My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."
"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."
"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."
"I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood."
"My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!"
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"The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build."
"But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around."
"Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together."
"No, it's funny, when I eat out it's not typically in the kind of restaurants people might imagine."
"Your idea of that dish has evolved, and if you're a cook, you can start thinking in different ways about it, maybe even a different way than I think about it."
"I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career."
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