I Don't Think You Could

You Have To Be Driven. You Have To Be Focused. You Have To Be Aware.

Cooking Is Not About Convenience And It's Not About Shortcuts. Our Hunger For The Twenty-minute Gourmet Meal, For One-pot Ease And Prewashed, Precut Ingredients Has Severed Our Lifeline To The Satisfactions Of Cooking. Take Your Time. Take A Long Time. Move Slowly And Deliberately And With Great Attention.

Vegetables To Me Are - I Don't Want To Say The Most Exciting Part Of Cooking, But Certainly A Very Exciting Part Of Cooking, Because They Continue To Change. They Come Into Season And They Go Through Different Phases.

With Passion, If You See The First Asparagus Of The Springtime And You Become Passionate About It, So Much The Better, But Three Weeks Later, When You’ve Seen That Asparagus Every Day Now, Passions Have Subsided. What’s Going To Make You Treat The Asparagus The Same? It’s The Desire.

I Have No Formal Culinary Training, Right.