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Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.

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Wolfgang Puck
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 8
Chef
Restaurateur
Wolfgang Johannes Puck
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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 believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.
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Nutrition is just so important to me, mostly especially for children.
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For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
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Food television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous.
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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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What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.
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The usage of proper salt is really just a small piece of education. However, I want people to really get the proper nutrition from food for them and their family.
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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 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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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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People are visual and hands on learners.
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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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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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I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.
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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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Stay away from iodized table salt. It's just bad and doesn't help food taste good.
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Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.
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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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Don't go and cook Indian food if you never cooked Indian food, you know?
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