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When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.

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Wolfgang Puck
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 8
Chef
Restaurateur
Wolfgang Johannes Puck
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A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
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The only way to teach people how to truly do it and do it the right way, is to get those ingredients and kitchen tools in front of them and in their hands to use.
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Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.
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I think the time of the formal dinners is over.
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The usage of proper salt is really just a small piece of education. However, I want people to really get the proper nutrition from food for them and their family.
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You can eat an omelet at midnight, at lunchtime, all day long. It's perfect for every occasion.
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When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy.
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I have two young boys, and my wife is at home. Most of the time, I will cook the food, and we'll eat together.
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Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment.
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Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.
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My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.
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One of the things I've found now, not just for television, but in the restaurant, is that you have many anxious chefs, who know how to cook twenty recipes really well, but they don't have a good foundation for other things.
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For example, you can eat a Caesar salad and say, Wow, I ate so healthy today. You forget there was a quarter-cup of oil in there, and all the calories are from fat. So it's better if you eat a grilled chicken breast, some steamed brown rice, and a little salad with balsamic vinegar on top.
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Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. When I opened Spago, I had the kitchen in the dining hall. It was probably the first restaurant to do so. The dining scene became more casual. All these cooking shows have transformed our profession one-hundred percent.
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Nutrition is just so important to me, mostly especially for children.
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I used to write cookbooks. It was passion to try to bring healthy and fun recipes to people's homes. It was a way to bring my home to theirs.
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What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.
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I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.
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I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
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