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Thomas Keller
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 14
Chef
Cookbook Author
Non-Fiction Writer
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Camp Pendleton
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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.
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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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Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.
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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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And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!
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Anyone can make a good roast chicken.
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I guess the main source of stress for me is the stress I put on myself.
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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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A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.
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I think every young cook wants to write a book.
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I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.
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Repetition is the mother of perfection. If there is true perfection, it's about doing something over and over again. I truly think that if somebody does a recipe they've never done before and gets it right, they're probably more lucky than they are talented.
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One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.
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My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
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Vegetables to me are - I don't want to say the most exciting part of cooking, but certainly a very exciting part of cooking, because they continue to change. They come into season and they go through different phases.
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I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
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Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef.
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Success is measured by the memories you create.
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The media builds you up, and then it tears you down.
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