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I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

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Thomas Keller
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 14
Chef
Cookbook Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Restaurateur
Camp Pendleton
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Laundry
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French
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Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.
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I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.
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Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't.
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With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire.
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Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.
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