American - Chef | January 16, 1948 -
Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I saw that my teenage craving had not really been for food. That ravenous desire had been a yearning for love, attention, appreciation. Food had merely been my substitute.
Ruth Reichl
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You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.
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The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience.
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My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.
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If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
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If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.
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American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.
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In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.
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There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.
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By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.
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The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.
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What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.
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