#on

I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#balanced diet #because #believe #could #diet

My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#additional #additives #bad #chemicals #compared

Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#asia #asian #chinatown #cooking #curry

Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#bed #bit #course #done #earlier

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#begins #christmas #come #down #excess

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#distractions #eating #fine #flavor #food

We the chefs have a responsibility to learn about the chemical makeup of food! ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#chefs #chemical #food #learn #makeup

When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#american #anybody #asian #dish #else

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#apprenticeship #aspirations #becoming #began #cooking

When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?' ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#beginning #come #cooking #cooks #girlfriend