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A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.

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Wolfgang Puck
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 8
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Wolfgang Johannes Puck
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I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
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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 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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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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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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I love strong flavors too. Like I don't mind if it looks clean and clear and you know what you are eating if it has Italian, Chinese or Japanese flavor I love them all.
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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 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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When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.
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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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I really love Paris. It's my favorite city.
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My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.
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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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A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
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I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.
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I want to give people a basic education, and to help them think for themselves when it comes to food.
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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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Food television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous.
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Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.
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I've discussed this with many doctors, and it is just so imperative that people learn how to properly cook food to get those vital nutrients out of them.
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