Alex Guarnaschelli Quotes
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A splash of red wine vinegar can pull things together like a pinch of salt.
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Dione Lucas has been obscured by larger-than-life personalities like Julia Child, but she had it going on. She is like the horse that came in second place, whose name we can't remember. It takes more than just one horse to make a race.
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I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.
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Fresh herbs really belong anywhere you put them.
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Who doesn't love a stuffed cherry tomato?
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My mom is a self-taught home cook, so books that offer guidelines on how to organize menus are critical to 'cook from the book' people like her.
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Easter is an arts and crafts moment where your whole family and friends can get involved.
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I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.
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The hardest thing for me is restraint. I see fresh beans and ramps, and I start to quiver.
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I love using hummus as centerpiece and then making different containers of vegetables for fun dipping.
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I love 'The Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook' by Dione Lucas. A huge source of information and inspiration. The book is organized by menu, and the recipes are unusual and exciting.
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'Iron Chef America' is so real. Imagine putting on television the whole process of making that food, the technique. It's all about technique. It doesn't even matter if you show the faces sometimes.
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If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught.
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Americans will not buy irregular-looking or oddly shaped vegetables!
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I'm interested in food and sharing my passion with a community of like-minded people. All of the celebrity stuff that comes along with that is just an incidental byproduct of being able to do what I love for a living.
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When we eat something at a restaurant, however simple it may look, there's something in it that makes you think, 'Well, I couldn't quite do this from home.'
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I didn't cook that much as a kid. My mother was cooking, and I was her helper. We made dishes together.
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I don't know anyone who hasn't overcooked at least one turkey, myself included. It's easy to do.
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Make a stir-fried rice dish with some cut-up chicken and any vegetables folded into the rice for a 'one pot' meal lunch that has it all - protein, starch and vegetables.
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Don't be so hard on yourself. Make something simple a few times until you 'master' it and move on to the next thing. Take a cooking class! Buy a cookbook that specializes in foods or a cuisine you enjoy.
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There's not enough time in each day to really focus enough attention on any one thing, but I'm doing my best. I have a great group of people who support me, and I don't sleep a lot. It's like I'm on a constantly spinning merry-go-round, and every day, I'm wondering when it will stop so I can get off. I love what I do, so that helps a lot.
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As a chef, a mom, and a member of Team No Kid Hungry, I believe that every child deserves three meals a day, every day.
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I wouldn't call being a chef gratifying in a lot of ways. It's an act of love.
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I think unadulterated products and smaller portion sizes mean consumption of less food overall. Portion is everything. The first time I bought a scoop of ice cream in Paris, they weighed the ice cream on a scale before putting it on the cone. It was so small, it fell into the cone as she handed it to me.