Wolfgang Puck Quotes

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• A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
• Young people want to be famous before they know how to cook, before they know how to treat people, before they know what hospitality means.…
• There is no value with just one restaurant or with one person. The brand has to be bigger than the person.
• Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment.
• To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.
• When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.
• A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
• I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
• Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors -…
• I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.
• A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.
• For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
• I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.
• I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
• I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.
• I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.
• I really love Paris. It's my favorite city.
• I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.
• I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.
• I think the time of the formal dinners is over.

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