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"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."
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"I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants."
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"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight."
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"The best meals are those prepared by loving hands."
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"I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking."
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"Jennifer Anne had prepared some complicated-looking recipe involving chicken breasts stuffed with sweet potatoes topped with a vegetable glaze. They looked perfect, but it was the kind of dish where you just knew someone had to have been pawing at your food for a long while to get it just right, their fingers all in what now you were having to stick in your mouth."
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"Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store."
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"I just get all jacked up when we start cooking."
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"I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking."
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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."
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"Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using."
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"They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it."
Reason
"My favorite wines are Zinfandels."
Favorite
"The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build."
Inspirational
"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."
Experience
"The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in."
Law
"Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available."
Day
"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."
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"It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me."
Feelings
"You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books."
Books
"But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around."
Food
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