Best Quotes by Thomas Keller (Top 9)

  1. When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.
  2. Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.
  3. A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.
  4. For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.
  5. You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. I have no formal culinary training, right.
  9. I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.