My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing. — Charlie Trotter Laissez faire Copy Share Image
I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. — Charlie Trotter Arts education Copy Share Image
I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend. — Charlie Trotter Get money Copy Share Image
You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further. — Charlie Trotter Critical Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients. — Charlie Trotter Challenge Copy Share Image
I don't know how to put this gently, but I'm trying to tackle the biggest question of all, which is the God… — Charlie Trotter Biggest Copy Share Image
As tough as I've been on anybody, as hard as I've ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By… — Charlie Trotter Anybody Copy Share Image
I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food. — Charlie Trotter Always Copy Share Image
I couldnt really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing… — Charlie Trotter Every day Copy Share Image
I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time.… — Charlie Trotter Back Copy Share Image
I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday. There is no… — Charlie Trotter Bigger Copy Share Image
If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you… — Charlie Trotter Anywhere Copy Share Image
I was always inspired by restaurants like La Tulipe in Manhattan. You'd walk right by and say, 'Oh what a lovely house.'… — Charlie Trotter Always Copy Share Image
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool. — Charlie Trotter Actually Copy Share Image
If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read… — Charlie Trotter Brother Copy Share Image
There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is… — Charlie Trotter Art Copy Share Image
I've always liked root vegetables because most of them have a natural sweetness. They have a high fructose content, especially when you… — Charlie Trotter Always Copy Share Image
If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most… — Charlie Trotter Around Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. And that is why you must seize… — Charlie Trotter Circumstances Copy Share Image
The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as the food enzymes created by nature do.… — Charlie Trotter Body Copy Share Image
If you know what you're doing, you can make a meal happen with any kitchen knife. But using a top-quality knife versus… — Charlie Trotter Across Copy Share Image
I have always looked at it this way: If you strive like crazy for perfection - an all-out assault on total perfection… — Charlie Trotter Able Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the… — Charlie Trotter Accused Copy Share Image
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian… — Charlie Trotter Another Copy Share Image
One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment. — Charlie Trotter Combination Copy Share Image
If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life. — Charlie Trotter Am Copy Share Image
I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from… — Charlie Trotter Because Copy Share Image
Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste. — Charlie Trotter Cooking Copy Share Image
What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone. — Charlie Trotter Book Copy Share Image
I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. — Charlie Trotter Art Copy Share Image
To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice. — Charlie Trotter Anywhere Copy Share Image
I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things. — Charlie Trotter Always Copy Share Image
