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Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth
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“if things look good today, they will most assuredly turn to shit tomorrow.”
― Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
― Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Suffering was inescapable, but to care for another and to be cared for in turn—that was the closest any person might come to heaven.”
― To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
― To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
― Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
― Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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