How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.
You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.
You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.
Cooking is the art of adjustment.
Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu.
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
There's not too many rich black people in this world.
I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.
Without followers, evil cannot spread
What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.