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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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Restaurants are like having children: its fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.
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I think I generally try to buy the best quality and keep it simple. I don't try to make too many decorations, too many things with it.
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I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.
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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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I fell in love with food because of my mother. So, I will definitely be sharing and expanding more recipes from my culture (as well as many other cultures), and will be sharing recipes that I have experienced from my whole culinary life.
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To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.
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I want to teach [people] the secret of great visual presentation. Your stomach sees the food first, and I want to help them match food flavor profiles with the aesthetics of everything.
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The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.
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Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.
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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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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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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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I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
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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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It's easier being a judge than a competitor. As a judge, you don't have any risks. That makes it much more enjoyable.
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New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.
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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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I think the time of the formal dinners is over.
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Nutrition is just so important to me, mostly especially for children.
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