"A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe."
"Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef."
54 likes
Source: Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Thomas Keller
"When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about."
"Its not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it's about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then u'll be a great cook."
"This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane."
"The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in."
"Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again."