#co

Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#come #food #good #hopefully #imparting

I think every young cook wants to write a book. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#cook #every #i #i think #think

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#cookbook #cooking #foundations #french #italian

Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#also #available #bass #black #calls

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#get #how #i #know #me

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#could #destiny #else #fate #french

Your idea of that dish has evolved, and if you're a cook, you can start thinking in different ways about it, maybe even a different way than I think about it. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#cook #different #different way #different ways #dish

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella). ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#characters #collaboration #creatively #deliberation #form

We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#chunks #could #destructive #each #fact

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#everything #making #more #more and more