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Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

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Wolfgang Puck
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 8
Chef
Restaurateur
Wolfgang Johannes Puck
Network
Limited
Television
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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What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.
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The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.
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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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I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.
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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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A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
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Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment.
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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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I want to help build their basic food terminology.
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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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Don't go and cook Indian food if you never cooked Indian food, you know?
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My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.
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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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You can eat an omelet at midnight, at lunchtime, all day long. It's perfect for every occasion.
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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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One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.
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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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