Grant Achatz Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.”

“Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well.”

“There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.”

“Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself.”

“Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.”

“I always knew I wanted to be a chef.”

“Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked.”

“What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.”

“Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.”

“We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.”