Quotes by Thomas Keller

About Thomas Keller:

Thomas Keller is an American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He and his landmark Napa Valley restaurant, The French Laundry in Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, notably the Best California Chef in 1996, and the Best Chef in America in 1997. The restaurant is a perennial winner in the annual Restaurant Magazine list of the Top 50 Restaurants of the World.
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Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long tim...

Thomas Keller

When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances.

Thomas Keller

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.

Thomas Keller

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

Thomas Keller

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

Thomas Keller

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

Thomas Keller

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

Thomas Keller

Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef.

Thomas Keller

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

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

Thomas Keller

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

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

Thomas Keller

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

Thomas Keller

My favorite wines are Zinfandels.

Thomas Keller

I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.

Thomas Keller

I have no formal culinary training, right.

Thomas Keller

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me.

Thomas Keller

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Thomas Keller

When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

Thomas Keller

Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't.

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Author Bio

  • NameThomas Keller
  • DescriptionAmerican chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer
  • BornOctober 14, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionRestaurateur; Author