Some Of The Recipes In The Book

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.

You Have To Be Driven. You Have To Be Focused. You Have To Be Aware.

When You Acknowledge, As You Must, That There Is No Such Thing As Perfect Food, Only The Idea Of It, Then The Real Purpose Of Striving Toward Perfection Becomes Clear: To Make People Happy, That Is What Cooking Is All About.

But Once In A While You Might See Me At In And Out Burger; They Make The Best Fast Food Hamburgers Around.

I Wanted To Write About What We Were Doing At The French Laundry, The Recipes And The Stories.