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I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.

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Wolfgang Puck
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 8
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Restaurateur
Wolfgang Johannes Puck
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The food could taste amazing however, if you present a plate of misfortunate looking food...you would really question yourself about whether or not you should eat it.
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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 was a revolution, but now it is an evolution. People know more ingredients, people know more techniques, and people look for more ingredients they've never looked for before. In the '80s, you couldn't find raw tuna in any restaurant that wasn't Japanese. Now, you can't find any restaurant without it or sashimi.
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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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Don't go and cook Indian food if you never cooked Indian food, you know?
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I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.
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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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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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A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.
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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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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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Young people want to be famous before they know how to cook, before they know how to treat people, before they know what hospitality means. I stayed in France for seven years and Austria for three, so before I was a chef anywhere I was already cooking for 10 years.
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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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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 learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
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I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.
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I think the time of the formal dinners is over.
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For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.
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Nutrition is just so important to me, mostly especially for children.
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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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