Jose Andres Puerta Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.”

“I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.”

“In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.”

“Everyone else in the world still thinks of American food as ketchup.”

“Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.”

“It is time to embrace and celebrate ketchup, not be ashamed of it.”

“IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.”

“The cheapest gadget - and you don't even have to spend a dime - is chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant. I use them for everything: to toss salads, to turn a piece of meat in the pan, to flip croquettes in the Fryolator, to whisk eggs for omelets, to stir eggs into fried rice when I make that for my daughters.”

“I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.”

“I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.”