Thomas Keller, Chef

“I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.”
― Thomas Keller

“Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.”
― Thomas Keller, The French Laundry Cookbook

“When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances.”
― Thomas Keller, Ad Hoc at Home

“When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.”
― Thomas Keller, The French Laundry Cookbook