Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Quotes

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your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Only one in four has a chance at making it.... And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting off dope, and staying off dope, it was going to be . was going to live. I was the guy.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble ta...

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fr...

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving...

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly