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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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Wolfgang Puck
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 8
Chef
Restaurateur
Wolfgang Johannes Puck
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I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.
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When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.
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People are visual and hands on learners.
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The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.
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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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I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.
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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 left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.
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Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.
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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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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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Food television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous.
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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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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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A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.
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It is so nice to talk to someone that has a passion for food and family.
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I think the time of the formal dinners is over.
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Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.
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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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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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