You Have To Live Life

The Objective.. Is To Achieve A Comfort Level Between The Cook/artist/performer And The Customer/viewer/diner. And If We Can Achieve That, And The Customers Are Happy And The Cooks Are Happy, Then We Have A Great Experience.

The Pendulum Of Cookery Techniques Became More Significant Than The Actual Experience. And When That Happens, The Customer's Satisfaction Becomes Secondary To The Chef's Satisfaction. And In That Case, You Have An Upside-down Equation. Because The Customer Is The Basis Of Our Restaurant, First Of All, And If The Chef Becomes The Most Important Person At The Table - Even More So Than The Guests - Then Suddenly You're Left With Something That Doesn't Really Work.

Larousse Gastronomique Is A Veritable Dictionary Of Cooking Terms For The French Kitchen. If A Chef Were Allowed Only One Book, This Would Have To Be It.

Bologna Is The Best City In Italy For Food And Has The Least Number Of Tourists. With Its Medieval Beauty, It Has It All.

I Can Tell In Two Minutes If I Should Hire Someone In The Kitchen. Two Minutes. It's His Desire. It's That Open-eyed, Attentive Expression. If He Doesn't Have It ... I Mean, I Can Teach A Chimp How To Cook Dinner. But I Cannot Teach A Chimp How To Love It.