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I want to teach people how to do it the right way. And it is from that they can teach their children how to do it properly. It will teach them how to cook better and healthier at home.

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Wolfgang Puck
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 8
Chef
Restaurateur
Wolfgang Johannes Puck
Cooks
Teach
Home
Better
Right
Children
Healthier
Way
Cook
People
Properly

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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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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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Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment.
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Most seasonings are based on family tradition.
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Nutrition is just so important to me, mostly especially for children.
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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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I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.
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I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.
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Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.
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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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A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.
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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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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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Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman.
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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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Food television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous.
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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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Omelets are about technique. Now, different people make it different ways, but, if you're a chef in Europe, an omelet has to be cooked on the outside, with just a simmer of color, and the inside has to be soft. It should be cooked like a steak - medium rare.
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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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I want to give people a basic education, and to help them think for themselves when it comes to food.
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