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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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I want to teach people how to do it the right way. And it is from that they can teach their children how to do it properly. It will teach them how to cook better and healthier at home.
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I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.
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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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It is going to have healthy food and exercise mixed together. With smaller portions, and more exercise, you live a better life.
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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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It's an interesting thing, Top Chef. Some of the contestants will make you one great dish, and then make you something on the next show that will make you say, Is that the same person?
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People are visual and hands on learners.
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Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman.
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Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
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Don't go and cook Indian food if you never cooked Indian food, you know?
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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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Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.
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Stay away from iodized table salt. It's just bad and doesn't help food taste good.
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To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.
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I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.
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There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.
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The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.
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Food television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous.
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Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.
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I won't quit my day job. I like restaurants. I don't do a lot of television, either, even though people come to me with projects all the time. I have to spend time in the kitchen.
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