Cooking Is The Art Of

You Can't Escape The Taste Of The Food You Had As A Child. In Times Of Stress, What Do You Dream About? Your Mother's Clam Chowder. It's Security, Comfort. It Brings You Home.

You Have No Choice As A Professional Chef: You Have To Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat Until It Becomes Part Of Yourself. I Certainly Don't Cook The Same Way I Did 40 Years Ago, But The Technique Remains. And That's What The Student Needs To Learn: The Technique.

Cooking Is The Art Of Adjustment.

Basically, I Go To The Local Farmer's Market And Decide To What To Cook Then, Depending On What I Find. Either My Wife Or I Cook, And We Usually Finish A Bottle Or Two Of Wine By The Time We Are Done Cooking And Eating.

I Cooked At The White House For Easter, Last Year, With Michelle Obama. But It More Had To Do With Cooking From The Organic Garden, And Her Message. I Took My Daughter And Granddaughter There, And They Were Really Charming, It Was Great.