Best Quotes by Thomas Keller (Top 9)
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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.
Thomas Keller
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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.
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A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.
Thomas Keller
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For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.
Thomas Keller
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You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.
Thomas Keller
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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.
Thomas Keller
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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.
Thomas Keller
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I have no formal culinary training, right.
Thomas Keller
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I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.
Thomas Keller