Wolfgang Puck Quotes

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• Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

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  Song, Food, Writing

  "Puck Goes Back to His (Ginger) Roots". Interview with Perry Garfinkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.

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  Mistake, Made

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• Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.

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  Expectations, Judging

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• For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

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  Expression, Land, Cooking

  "Wolfgang Puck: 'Cooking is like painting'". Interview with Paul Willis, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.

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• A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

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  Crafts, Mixtures, Chef

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• To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.

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  Humorous, Airplane, Air Travel

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• I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.

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  Mistake, Restaurants

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• A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

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  Together, Three, Chef

  "Meet the Chef: Wolfgang Puck". The Daily Meal interview, www.thedailymeal.com. February 21, 2012.

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• The only way to teach people how to truly do it and do it the right way, is to get those ingredients and kitchen tools in front of them and in their hands to use.

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  Hands, People, Kitchen

  "An Interview With Master Chef, Wolfgang Puck". Interview with David Murphy, foodnservice.com. January 29, 2016.

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• You can eat an omelet at midnight, at lunchtime, all day long. It's perfect for every occasion.

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  Long, Perfect, Midnight

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Most seasonings are based on family tradition.

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  Tradition, Family Tradition, Seasoning

  "An Interview With Master Chef, Wolfgang Puck". Interview with David Murphy, foodnservice.com. January 29, 2016.

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• Restaurants are like having children: its fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.

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  Fun, Children, Boys

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• The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.

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  Important, Ingredients, Important Things

  "Interview with Top Chef Seattle judge Wolfgang Puck". Interview with Guillermo Paz, seriesandtv.com. October 26, 2012.

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• The food could taste amazing; however, if you present a plate of misfortunate looking food...you would really question yourself about whether or not you should eat it.

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  Taste, Should, Plates

  "An Interview With Master Chef, Wolfgang Puck". Interview with David Murphy, foodnservice.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.

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  Knives

  "Q & A With Wolfgang Puck, Part 2: Spago (The Musical), Life in an Austrian Kitchen + The Joys of HSN". Interview with Amy Scattergood, www.laweekly.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment.

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  Lasts, Moments, Cooks

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• For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

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  Meals, Loved Ones, Dine

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• I want to teach [people] the secret of great visual presentation. Your stomach sees the food first, and I want to help them match food flavor profiles with the aesthetics of everything.

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  People, Secret, Flavor

  Source: foodnservice.com

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• It is so nice to talk to someone that has a passion for food and family.

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  Nice, Passion

  "An Interview With Master Chef, Wolfgang Puck". Interview with David Murphy, foodnservice.com. January 29, 2016.

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• A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

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  Successful, Genius, Chef

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• I think the time of the formal dinners is over.

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  Thinking, Dinner, Formal

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• When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.

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  People, Boxing, Tennis

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• What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.

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  Morning, Espresso, Breakfast

  "Q&A: Wolfgang Puck, Now of Top Chef". Interview with Eric Vilas-Boas, www.esquire.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.

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  Thinking, Important, Motivated

  "Q & A With Wolfgang Puck, Part 2: Spago (The Musical), Life in an Austrian Kitchen + The Joys of HSN". Interview with Amy Scattergood, www.laweekly.com. May 28, 2010.

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• One of the things I've found now, not just for television, but in the restaurant, is that you have many anxious chefs, who know how to cook twenty recipes really well, but they don't have a good foundation for other things.

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  Foundation, Twenties, Television

  Source: www.esquire.com

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