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Food Quotes by Tom Douglas

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Fish tacos are a fun, shareable meal for friends and family, as Tom Douglas notes. He says confidence in the kitchen grows when you repeat a recipe three times, mastering one dish before trying many. He also enjoys tweaking a stuffing with mushrooms, cherries, and creamy cheese to keep flavors interesting.

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I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes.

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Pork is my friend.

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I eat out at least once every day.

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One of my favorite ways to eat albacore is tuna poke.

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Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.

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If you just feel lazy and don't want to cook, then don't cook.

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Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession.

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Salsa verde is delicious with trout or most any fish.

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Sweet, delicious Dungeness crab is always a treat.

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Coho or silver salmon are very common and easy to get for a good price.

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I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.

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It's really fun to have a convection oven, even it if it's a little convection toaster oven. It really changes the way…

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I can't believe how many people don't have time to cook but have time to watch football and 'The Voice.' They're certainly…

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I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.

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The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in…

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I particularly like to make crunchy slices of garlic bread to serve with steamed clams.

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For a group of friends or a family dinner, fish tacos are popular and fun to make.

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Spanish chorizo is a spicy cured sausage that's especially tasty with clams.

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Maybe there are too many restaurants. Maybe some of mine need to close. So be it. I'll live with the market place.

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My own favorite way to cook and eat razor clams is to simply dredge them in a mix of seasoned flour and…

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Utrip makes it easy for travelers to experience the destination highlights that most interest them, be it food, art or history. Just…

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Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with crab cracker, cocktail fork…

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Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the…

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While it's typical to find steamed clam recipes which include a bit of bacon or sausage, you might not think of adding…

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The best meal I was served was ribollita, an Italian bread soup at the Castello di Ama winery in Tuscany. I usually…

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Cooking with your kids is a remarkable exercise to let them in on the purchasing part of the process - kids love…

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Summer in Seattle allows me to indulge in some of the region's top culinary delights - I'm talking about wild king salmon…

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A chunk of seared albacore tuna, salted and peppered, then seared rare in a little oil in a hot skillet for just…

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After being cooked, ling cod tends to bleed out some moisture, so, before serving, let it rest a few moments on a…

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Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm,…

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Often we eat squid fried, so it's fun to grill it for a change. To grill squid, slice the cleaned bodies open…

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Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship…

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I love restaurants from top to bottom.

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If you're going to start a fire, why cook just one chicken?

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Every cook I knows loves to make pizza.

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Customers are more friendly when they've had a meal.

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One-pot meals make a lot of sense... because so much of what people hate about cooking is really the cleanup, the mess,…

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Sweet Washington cherries and Walla Walla onions are two of my favorite local treats.

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Albacore tuna has a mild flavor that's delicious served raw or seared briefly on the outside so that it's still rare on…

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Ling cod is a mild-flavored and somewhat delicate fish that takes well to poaching, braising and pan-roasting.

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For a group of friends or a family dinner, fish tacos are popular and fun to make.

Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.

At the fishmonger, choose fish with bright scales and clear eyes.

We've become such a restaurant society.

I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.

I was $4,000 short on my first payroll.

There's a restaurant in Manhattan called Balthazar, and next to it is Balthazar Bakery. It's tiny, and it's very charming to have that little…

If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I've…

Mastering one recipe is better than mastering too many. Learn something and own it, and you'll feel so much better about it. You'll have…

I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.

Over the years I've tweaked my stuffing recipe many times, adding a variety of ingredients like sauteed wild mushrooms, dried cherries, fresh chevre, toasted…

If deep-frying catfish, try a dredge of seasoned flour and cornmeal and add some bacon fat to the oil.

The one thing I could do with my eyes closed is my Grandma's schnecken.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.