We Rely On Our Purveyors To Tell

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.

Respect For Food Is Respect For Life, For Who We Are And What We Do.

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.

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.

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.