Michael Ruhlman Quotes

#1. I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

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#2. Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

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#3. Food is about community. It's about the earth and really taking care of the earth.

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#4. I buy onions every time I'm in the grocery store, not because I need them, but because I fear not having an onion when I do need it. Not having an onion in the kitchen is like working with a missing limb.

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#5. We better take care of the earth or we're gonna have shitty food, and having shitty food is no fun.

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#6. I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of food and cooking. Jennifer McLagan's Fat is a smart, thoughtful book that ultimately asks us to understand our food better.

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#7. Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

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#8. Living in this world will change you," she confides. "It makes me value life. When a friend has a healthy baby, I don't think it's normal; I think it's a fucking miracle.

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#9. Stories
from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings
appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell ourselves stories through our dreams, and it's been shown that those who are prevented from doing so cease to function.

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#10. In the kitchen, the egg is ultimately neither ingredient nor finished dish but rather a singularity with a thousand ends.

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#11. Old-Fashioned Pound Cake (Creaming Method)

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#12. Always look for sparrows before you look for canaries.

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#13. A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

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#14. Everything is relative but there is a standard which must not be deviated from, especially with reference to the basic culinary preparations. A. Escoffier The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery

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#15. People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

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