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Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Thomas Keller

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Thomas Keller
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 14
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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.
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My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
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