Quotes Thomas Keller

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprin...

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long ...

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; t...

Food should be fun....

For me, that's one of the important things about cooking. Wh...

Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the...

I didn't want to be encumbered by what anyone else's abiliti...

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be hones...

I have no formal culinary training, right....

I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that...

I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have...

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

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to ...

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Lau...

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same...

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting t...

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to wri...

Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the ...

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories....

My favorite wines are Zinfandels....

No, it's funny, when I eat out it's not typically in the kin...

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-mak...

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever ki...

Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many ha...

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the f...