American - Celebrity | September 8, 1959 - November 5, 2013
I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use.
Charlie Trotter
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Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.
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As tough as I've been on anybody, as hard as I've ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By far.
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Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.
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Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.
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You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.
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Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.
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I am actually a very gentle person.
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There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.
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In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their food become the skilled artists of their time.
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For over 20 years, I have been saying that Chicago is by far one of the greatest food cities in the world.
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If you know what you're doing, you can make a meal happen with any kitchen knife. But using a top-quality knife versus a low-quality one is the difference between driving a Jaguar and a VW Jetta across the country. They'll both get you there. But the Jaguar will give you a much smoother ride.
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