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" I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college. "

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" I always knew I wanted to be a chef. "

" We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to. "

" Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked. "

" What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea. "

" Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself. "

" I hate stuff in my pockets, can't stand it. I'll carry stuff in my hands rather than put it in my pockets. "

" Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food. "

" Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one. "

" My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side. "

" Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way. "

" Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art. "

" Growing up as a young kid, I was in a restaurant. So, you know, I always had a very good understanding of the nuances. And in a way, that was a bad thing. Because it kind of programmed me to believe that if you're going have a restaurant, this is what you need to do, and this is the way it's going to be run. "

" The most luxurious thing to me is having an hour of my day, which rarely happens, to listen to my iPod and sit on my couch. That's how I unwind. "

" The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information and look for inspiration. To me, a food trend is potentially a lot of people following an idea. "

" My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself. "

" A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. "

" Alinea is not the type of restaurant where you go if you're in a hurry. Really, it's about enjoying that three-hour block of time and reflecting on the food, having great conversation with your dining companion. "

" I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life - every aspect of it. "

" Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with. "

" If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions. "

" Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well. "

" I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist. "

" There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents. "

" In a lot of ways, a lot of smells that aren't necessarily edible smell good, and they remind you of certain aspects of food. So making those associations with what smells good or smells a certain way and pairing that with actual edible ingredients is one avenue that we take creatively. "

" To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee. "

" It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to. "