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
My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing. — Charlie Trotter Father 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 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
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
One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment. — Charlie Trotter Combination 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
Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal… — Charlie Trotter Around Copy Share Image
In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving… — Charlie Trotter About Copy Share Image
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then… — Charlie Trotter After 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
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
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 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
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
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
I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food. — Charlie Trotter Always 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 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
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
Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy.… — Charlie Trotter Any Copy Share Image
You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer… — Charlie Trotter Adage Copy Share Image
The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner… — Charlie Trotter Appeals Copy Share Image
“Achieving excellence is being passionate about what you're doing and working so hard that they have to hire two people to replace… — Charlie Trotter Achieving Copy Share Image
In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves… — Charlie Trotter Art Copy Share Image
Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there… — Charlie Trotter Approach Copy Share Image
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you… — Charlie Trotter Bases 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
Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to… — Charlie Trotter Arguing Copy Share Image
