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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.
Thomas Keller
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Thomas Keller
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 14
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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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This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.
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The media builds you up, and then it tears you down.
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We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.
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