It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients. — Charlie Trotter Challenge Copy Share Image
I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use. — Charlie Trotter Certain 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
A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing. — Charlie Trotter Century Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life. — Charlie Trotter Able 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 Excellence 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
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
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
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
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
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
My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing. — Charlie Trotter Laissez faire 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
For over 20 years, I have been saying that Chicago is by far one of the greatest food cities in the world. — Charlie Trotter Been 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
Always make stock in a large quantity and freeze it in plastic bags. That way, when you want to make a nice… — Charlie Trotter Bags 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
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
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
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
