Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
I used to write cookbooks. It was passion to try to bring healthy and fun recipes to people's homes. It was a way to bring my home to theirs.
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.
Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government.
Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.
Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries. . .