American - Celebrity | September 8, 1959 - November 5, 2013
All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.
Charlie Trotter
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Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.
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I believe in focusing on details.
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I've always been a little crazy.
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My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'
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In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.
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Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.
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A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.
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My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.
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If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story.
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I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
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You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.
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