#ak

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#around #involved #makes #passionate #people

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#laugh #making #rip #shreds #somebody

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic. ↗

— David Sylvian

#artist #authentic #freeze #moment #often

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner. ↗

— Michael Symon

#enjoy #family #feeling #figure #holidays

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make. ↗

— Michael Symon

#better things #buy #farmers #food #go

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry. ↗

— Michael Symon

#bones #i #make #pastry #understanding

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter. ↗

— Michael Symon

#buying #fatter #firm #firm believer #i

If you salt a chicken the day before cooking, it starts to break down the cell structure of the meat and allows it to take on more flavor and actually helps it to stay more moist. Same goes for a steak, a pork chop. A lot of people brine; we preseason. ↗

— Michael Symon

#allows #before #break #cell #chicken

On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other. ↗

— Michael Symon

#cheese #chopped #comfort #comfort zone #culinary

You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted. ↗

— Michael Symon

#always #get #got #granted #great