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" I was driving around the country when I was 19 and happened to run out of cash in Seattle, so I settled here. "
Tom Douglas
Driving
Country
Cash
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" My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce. "
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" I don't know too many kids who ask to weed the garden. "
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" Sweet, delicious Dungeness crab is always a treat. "
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" I don't answer my phone in a restaurant. "
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" Catfish's mild taste adapts well to a wide array of flavors, especially strong assertive ones, which is why you used to see it 'blackened' Cajun style on so many restaurant menus - a trick which soon became a tired cliche. "
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" If deep-frying catfish, try a dredge of seasoned flour and cornmeal and add some bacon fat to the oil. "
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" I can't believe how many people don't have time to cook but have time to watch football and 'The Voice.' They're certainly making a choice. "
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Voice
Believe
" Salsa verde is delicious with trout or most any fish. "
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Any
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" One-pot meals make a lot of sense... because so much of what people hate about cooking is really the cleanup, the mess, the grease. "
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Sense
" I particularly like to make crunchy slices of garlic bread to serve with steamed clams. "
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Serve
Bread
Garlic
" Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country. "
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Thanks
Abundance
Country
" When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl. "
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Top
Soup
Tomato
" I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival. "
Tom Douglas
Teach
Think
You
" I'm a compassionate person, so if a product is 15 percent more than what I typically pay, and I see the purpose, I'll foster that kind of sustainability for the farmers/fishers. "
Tom Douglas
See
Sustainability
Purpose
" I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes. "
Tom Douglas
Mom
Crave
Sloppy
" Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor. "
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Flavor
Texture
Nice
" Maybe there are too many restaurants. Maybe some of mine need to close. So be it. I'll live with the market place. "
Tom Douglas
Need
Market
Some
" My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've probably had to go through and raise every menu price now by 50 cents because it took away my profit. I just underestimated what it was going to cost. "
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Start
Wife
Price
" Support a small chef. Not these big chains... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that. "
Tom Douglas
People
Support
Trying
" Pork is my friend. "
Tom Douglas
Pork
Friend
My Friend
" At the fishmonger, choose fish with bright scales and clear eyes. "
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Clear
Eyes
Choose
" I try to eat in one of my restaurants every day, and I eat out in another restaurant every day. It's what I do. "
Tom Douglas
Day
Restaurant
Every Day
" My longtime friend Steven Steinbock, who has worked with me for more than thirty years, is a master at panfrying fish and seafood. "
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Fish
Me
More
" When you watch 'Shark Tank,' everything is about off-shore this, off-shore that. "
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About
You
Watch
" The best meal I was served was ribollita, an Italian bread soup at the Castello di Ama winery in Tuscany. I usually hate ribollita, and the people I was traveling with thought I was crazy for ordering it. "
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People
" I can't stand it when restaurants don't have a sense of place in a city. When I'm in London, I want to know I'm in London. When you're sitting in my joint, you know you're sitting in Seattle. "
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Stand
You
Sitting
" In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator. "
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Restaurant
Refrigerator
Business
" The lakes in Washington State give us tons of crawfish. "
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State
Tons
Us
" One of my favorite ways to eat albacore is tuna poke. "
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Eat
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