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Wolfgang Puck
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 8
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Wolfgang Johannes Puck
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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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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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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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I really love Paris. It's my favorite city.
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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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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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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 like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.
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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 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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You can eat an omelet at midnight, at lunchtime, all day long. It's perfect for every occasion.
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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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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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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 think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.
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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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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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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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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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