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My Childhood Wasn't Full Of Wonderful Culinary Memories.

I Wanted To Learn Everything I Could About What It Takes To Be A Great Chef. It Was A Turning Point For Me.

You Don't Know When Inspiration Is Going To Come. But You Have To Be Aware Of What's Going On Around You, So That At Any Moment, When Inspiration Happens, You're Ready For It And You Interpret It.

With Passion, If You See The First Asparagus Of The Springtime And You Become Passionate About It, So Much The Better, But Three Weeks Later, When You’ve Seen That Asparagus Every Day Now, Passions Have Subsided. What’s Going To Make You Treat The Asparagus The Same? It’s The Desire.

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 Time. Move Slowly And Deliberately And With Great Attention.