Michael Ruhlman Quotes

#1. People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

Alex Tabarrok

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

Michael Ruhlman

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

Michael Ruhlman

#4. Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution.

Alexander Downer

#5. God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

John Piper

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

Michael Ruhlman

#7. I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

Christopher Walken

#8. Suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.

Stephen King

#9. 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.

Michael Ruhlman

#10. The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. God help us. God forgive us. We live on.

Gregory David Roberts

#12. My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

Phil Mickelson

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

Michael Ruhlman

#14. 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.

Michael Ruhlman

#15. If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

Benjamin Franklin

#16. Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.

Karen Miller

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

Michael Ruhlman

#18. 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.

Michael Ruhlman

#19. 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.

Michael Ruhlman

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

Michael Ruhlman

#21. I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Michael Ruhlman

#23. Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

Patch Adams

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

Michael Ruhlman

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

Michael Ruhlman

#26. 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

Michael Ruhlman

#27. Is there another word for synonym?

George Carlin

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

Michael Ruhlman

#29. Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

Bo Bennett