Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them. "

Related Quotes:

" I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy. "

" I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports. "

" I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesn't have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant. "

" Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it. "

" I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant. "

" Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier. "

" Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why. "

" I know every movement of my kitchen. "

" If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate. "

" When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking. "

" The restaurant industry is brutal. "

" I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch. "

" I can't crack jokes because I don't have any. "

" A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens. "

" I never cooked at home - my father was the chef. "

" Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people. "

" There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world. "

" Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food. "

" If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything. "

" People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy. "

" There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing. "

" My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream. "

" Appetite as it relates to the human being, the person. How do you find appetite for what you do? How do you relate to appetite? How do you get appetite, not only for a meal but also to do the work you do? "

" All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef. "